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The Weekender Effect II: Fallout
What happens when where you live, and most of the people among whom you are forced to live, begin to disgust you?” asks Robert Sandford in his opening to The Weekender Effect II: Fallout, the sequel to his 2008 book The Weekender Effect. He bemoans both the influx of temporary visitors to his mountain town […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Astrid Blodgett, Authoritarianism, Camus, Canmore, COVID 19, Freedom Convoy, Populism, Robert Sandford, Robert William Sandford, Rocky Mountain Books, Wallace Stegner
December 1, 2023
Alberta’s Own Brexit
A provincial pension plan is bollocks
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Pension Plan, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Calgary, Canada Pension Plan, Danielle Smith, Edmonton, Graham Thomson, Jim Dinning, Leduc, Pensions, Press Gallery, Provincial Elections, Trevor Tombe, United Conservative Party
Good Enough
Short Story Contest Winner 2023
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Biography, Calgary, Canada, Catholic Church, China, Cree, Drug Addiction, Generational Trauma, High River, Indigenous, Indigenous people, Jonathan Dyck, Michif, Prison, Railroad, Residential Schools, Short Story, Sixties Scoop, Treaty Rights
Gigs, Hustles & Temps
How precarious work lowers wages, makes Canadians poorer and deprives workers of rights—while it empowers and enriches big corporations
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Capitalism, Gig Economy, Jason Foster, Jeremy Appel, Lorimer, Neoliberalism, Private Sector
Should Alberta Increase Oil Royalties
A dialogue between Regan Boychuk and Ben Brunnen
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Bitumen, Brownfield, Canada, Communism, Conflict of Interest, Debate, International Energy Agency, Oil and Gas, Oil Industry, Oil Royalties, Parkland Institute, Pathways Alliance, Peter Lougheed, Pros and Cons, Regan Boychuk, Suncor, Think Tank
Homebodies
Stories
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Amy LeBlanc, Calgary, Catherine Owen, COVID 19, Enfield and Wizenty
Plastic Blues
One Albertan’s quest to stop government-sanctioned littering
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Blackfalds, Calgary, City Council, Eastern Slopes, Edmonton, Husband, Labour Costs, Landfills, Mark Carney, Microplastic, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Municipal Government Act, Nanton, Plastic Pollution, Public Safety, Recycling, Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan
How To Clean a Fish
And Other Adventures in Portugal
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Calgary, Edmonton, Elizabeth Chorney-Booth, Husband, Portugal, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Press
Urbane
A novel
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Anna Marie Sewell, Camosun College, Candace Fertile, Edmonton, Husband, Stonehouse Publishing, Wife
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