The Healing of Angela Bischoff

How one environmentalist turned private grief into public action.

• Feature
• Healthcare
• Mental Health

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canada, Halifax, Health Canada, Mental Illness, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Pharmaceuticals, Stephen Humphrey

July 1, 2006

10 Questions for Environmentalists

Alberta’s beleaguered green community must reorganize, re-prioritize and get down to work. Then we can call ourselves a true movement.

• Environment
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canmore, Cheviot, Ecotrust, Global Warming, Green Party, Hinton, Local Business, Oil and Gas, Populism, Preston Manning, Sour Gas, Student Debt, Suncor, Think Tank

Big Oil On Trial: The Story Nobody’s Telling

A Calgary energy company is being sued in a New York court for complicity in genocide. Back home in Alberta, news organizations are happy to look the other way.

• Energy
• Feature
• Oil

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Department of Justice, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, genocide, Holocaust, Jeremy Klaszus, Lobbyist, Military spending, Muslim, Nazis, Paul Martin, Special Interest Groups, Sudan

June 1, 2006

In Pursuit of Peace

A former soldier wants to create a better world, one turn of the wheel at a time.

• Culture
• Feature
• Healthcare

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, CUPE, Cycling, Iran, Iraq, Patriotism

Breaching the Boys Club

I answered the phone. A male voice asked to speak to the man in charge. I said I was in charge and could I help him? “I don’t want to talk to a goddamn girl,” he replied. I snapped.

• Culture
• Feature
• Labour

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Catholic Church, Discrimination, Feminism, Winston Churchill

The Little Neighbourhood That Could

Inglewood, one of Calgary’s oldest communities, is set to tackle the city’s affordable-housing crisis.

• Feature
• Housing

Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Views, Alcohol, Area Redevelopment Plan, Brewery, Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway, City Planning, Inglewood, Jeremy Klaszus, Municipal Affairs, Municipal Government Act, Railroad, Transit

May 1, 2006

Faces of the Lakeside Packers Strike

Brooks, Alberta/October 2005

• Feature
• Labour

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, George Melnyk, Lakeside Packers, Meat Packaging, Strike, Sudan

Small Town, Big Changes

Meat-packing, refugees and the transformation of Brooks.

• Culture
• Feature
• Labour

Tags: Afghanistan, Alberta, Alberta Views, Arabic, Brooks, Census Data, Cultural Centre, Emergency Medical Services, Lakeside Packers, Literacy, Meat Packaging, Migration, Nova Scotia, Philippines, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Sahara, Sex Work, Somalia, Sudan, Trans-Canada-Highway, Transit, Translation

Behind Bars: Maximum Security + The Remand Centre

They look subdued from the outside, but trouble is brewing inside Alberta’s overcrowded prisons.

• Feature
• Justice
• Prisons

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Alberta Views, Catholic Church, Child Custody, Community Support, Correctional Centre, Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench, Denver, Drumheller, Edmonton Institution (The "Max"), Gardening, Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Justice, Nova Scotia, Nursing, Registered Nurse, Remand Centres, Residential Schools, Treatment Facility

April 1, 2006