Educational Reform: Failing the Grade

The Klein revolution began with high hopes and all  the subtlety of the Jerry Springer Show. Bombast and in-your-face marketing were “in,” supplied courtesy of much of North America’s fawning corporate media. A retrofitted Ralph Klein was touted  as just the man to enact smaller government, balanced budgets, and market-based solutions, while also putting unions […]

• Education
• Feature
• K-12
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Autonomy, Budget Cuts, Casinos, Charter Schools, Don Getty, independent schools, New Brunswick, Parkland Institute, Populism, Private Schools, Privatization, Teacher Strike, Trevor Harrison, University of Lethbridge

April 1, 1999

Firedamp

How the creation of a play about a disaster rekindled community in Coalhurst

• Coal
• Education
• Feature
• Performing arts

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canals, Coal Mining, Coalhurst, Great Depression, Hudson's Bay, Methane, Population, Protestant, Public Library, Teacher Strike

Melted Architecture

Four Alberta Music Halls

• Architecture
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Aluminum, Banff, Churchill, Corporate Funding, International Students, The Banff Centre

January 1, 1999

Mom Never Told Us House Work Would Be Like This

Politics has been an unfavourable environment for women. Women must challenge tradition, hidden barriers and social biases to pursue a political career.

• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Anne McLellan, Authoritarianism, Bloc Québécois, Kim Campbell, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Women in Politics

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Translated from Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursac

• Original Fiction

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bayeux Arts, David Albahari, Gardening, Propaganda, Rocky Mountains, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Poverty in the Midst of Plenty

Economy

• Feature
• Homelessness
• Poverty
• Social Issues

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Asthma, Canada, Canada Assistance Plan, Discrimination, Drop-in Centre, Fraser Institute, Health Canada, NASA, Olympics, Quality of Life, Salvation Army, Social Assistance

The Next Alberta

Would You Want to Live There?

• Culture
• Feature

Tags: Abortion, Alaska, Alberta, Alberta Views, Bill Clinton, Bisexual, Brian Mulroney, Casinos, Colonialism, Feminism, Floor Crossing, Free Trade, Generation Next, Grant Notley, Ireland, Jean Chretien, LGBTQ, Lise Gotell, Lobbyist, Malcolm Azania, Mel Hurtig, Patriotism, Peter Gzowski, Peter Lougheed, Public Schools, Scholarship, Sharon Butala, Singapore, Socialism, W.O. Mitchell

October 1, 1998

Wild Roses

Fiction

• Original Fiction

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Short Story

Alberta Musicians Rock

Landscape, lifestyle and community draw talent to the land of opportunity

• Culture
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Chile, Country Music, Folk Music, Ian Tyson, Jesus Christ, Longview, Paul Brandt, RStar, Seattle, Terri Clark, Wild Rose Country