The Art Drain

A year ago I moved to Montreal. I thought I could learn more about the country by living in a place most different from Alberta, a place where I didn’t know anyone. To my surprise, I ran into people from Alberta everywhere I went—in grocery stores and shopping centres, at theatres and music venues, even […]

• Arts
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, AUArts, Ballet, Bob Edwards, Halifax, Keith Johnstone, Montreal, New Brunswick, Populism, Quebec, Theatre, Theatresports

April 1, 2005

Spare Change

Raising the minimum wage is only a start.

• Feature
• Labour
• Poverty

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Atlantic, Fast Food, Fraser Institute, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Nova Scotia, Parkland Institute, Ralph Klein, Trevor Harrison, University of Lethbridge, Veterans

Who Stands Up For Workers?

Are Union Leaders up to the Job?

• Feature
• Labour

Tags: Alberta Advantage, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Ambulances, Collective Bargaining, Criminal Justice, Deregulation, Don Getty, Electricity Deregulation, Flat Tax, Globalization, Minimum Wage, Nursing, Paramedics, Peter Lougheed, Polarization, Ralph Klein, Teacher Strike, Unions, United Nurses of Alberta

Signs of a New Ferment

The Not-So-Predictable 2004 Election.

• Elections
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped, Auto Insurance, Brent Rathgeber, Bullfighting, Cardston, Chief of Staff, Chilliwack, Chuckwagons, Coalbed Methane, Conservation Officer, David King, David Swann, Electoral Reform, Firearms, Green Party, Gun Control, Is Rodeo Humane, Jim Dinning, Kevin Taft, Leduc, Mavericks, Methane, Polarization, Ponoka, Populism, Preston Manning, Racehorse, Ralph Klein, Rocky Mountain House, Rockyford, Rod Love, Rodeo, Sherwood Park, Tisdale, Vaudeville, Veterinarian, Writing-On-Stone

March 1, 2005

The Meatmaker: Life and Death on the Banff Highway

Our insufficient efforts to let the animals roam.

• Feature
• Politics
• Wildlife

Tags: Afghanistan, Alberta, Alberta Views, Banff, Banff National Park, Bears, Ben Gadd, Biodiversity, Bow Valley, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Canadian Wildlife Service, Canmore, Conflict of Interest, Coyotes, Grizzly Bears, Icefields Parkway, Lake Louise, Natural History, New Brunswick, Parks Canada, Rocky Mountains, Sid Marty, Trans-Canada-Highway, Transit, UNESCO, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Vermilion, Wildlife Corridor, Yukon

Diary of a Doorknocker

Running for the NDP in Alberta.

• Elections
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Anne McLellan, Cheviot, Deputy Premier, Dictatorship, Discrimination, Iraq, Israel, Malcolm Azania, Nazis, New Democratic Party, Public Opinion, Rahim Jaffer, Raj Pannu, Socialism, Student Debt, Views

Slaughterhouse Drive

How co-operation could trump competition in Alberta’s beef industry.

• Agriculture
• Feature
• Labour
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Atlantic, Audit, Auditor General, Lakeside Packers, Meat Packaging, Mel Knight, Minister of Agriculture, Peace Country

January 1, 2005

Going by the Board

After seven decades of service, will the Canadian Wheat Board succumb to ideological attacks?

• Agriculture
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Atlantic, Canadian Wheat Board, Canola, Coalbed Methane, Deputy Premier, Grasshoppers, Great Depression, Herbicide, Hong Kong, Ken Nicol, Methane, Minister of Agriculture, Monopoly, Peace Country, University of Lethbridge, Vegreville

Artists Without Labels

The Nina Haggerty Centre has brought “outsider art” to Alberta.

• Feature
• Visual Art

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, California, Child Custody, Curtis Gillespie, Edmonton Art Gallery, Enbridge, Geriatric Healthcare, Grant MacEwan, Ice Age, Michener Centre, Nova Scotia, Palliative Care, Support Worker, USA