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Believe It or Not
Memoir

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Memoir, Museums, Teacher Strike, Translation
May 1, 2002
How Do You Grow An Opera?
A true Alberta story of bootlegging, murder and an execution, transformed into high art—can home-grown wizardry pull it off?

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Ballet, Banff, Blairmore, Cemetery, Coleman, Crowsnest Pass, Empress, Fernie, Filumena, Hong Kong, La Bohème, Opera, The Banff Centre
March 1, 2002
Over the Rainbow
A new wave of immigrants struggle to make a home in Alberta.

Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Bipolar, Brazil, Canals, Census Data, Childbirth, Chile, Diabetes, Discrimination, East Africa, English as a Second Language, Joe Ceci, Labour Market, Mennonite Centre for Newcomers, Mental Illness, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Peter Lougheed, Pregnancy, Punjabi, Sexual Assault Centre, Social Assistance, South America, Sudan, Surgery
Emigrants
“If we go over there, we may have to live on rabbit, too.”

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Alcohol, Brewery, Halifax, Norway
Cities Shortchanged
Cutbacks and “downloading” forces cities into a tight spot.

Tags: Al Duerr, Alberta, Alberta Views, Budget Cuts, Canada, Canada Health Act, Capital Projects, City Funding, Denver, Drop-in Centre, Intergovernmental Affairs, Jean Chretien, Municipal Affairs, Municipal Government Act, Quality of Life, Salvation Army, Seattle, Treatment Facility, User Fees
January 1, 2002
Lost Capital
An old Edmonton warehouse holds a valuable lesson about downtown revitalization.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Anna Marie Sewell, Asbestos, City Planning, Cuba, Edmonton, Grant MacEwan, Historical Preservation, Jane Jacobs, Jasper Avenue, Ken Johnson, Old Strathcona, Socialism, Student Visa, Vacancy, Zoning
Stooges
Winner of the 2001 Alberta Views Short Story Contest

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Ambulances, Homosexuality, LGBTQ, Polio, Scholarship
Near Drownings
Without warning, Lauren’s grandmother slipped right out of Lauren’s grasp, as if the water beckoned to her.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Highwood, Longview
November 1, 2001
Loosening our Bible Belt
The Changing Faith of Alberta.

Tags: Abortion, Alberta, Alberta Views, Arabic, Atheist, Atlantic, Bible Belt, Discrimination, Feminism, George W. Bush, Homosexuality, LGBTQ, Lutheran, Muslim, Polarization, Protestant, Secular, Sikh, Skateboarding, Skiing, Social Credit party, United Church, University of Lethbridge
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