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Professors Pushed to the Edge
The University of Lethbridge faculty strike.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca University, Austerity, Budget, Budget Cuts, Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Parkland Institute, Salary, Strike, Supreme Court, Tax Revenue, Teacher Strike, Trevor Harrison, Tuition, Undergraduate, University of Lethbridge
September 1, 2022
Memory Speaks
On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Autobiography, Biography, Christine Wiesenthal, Julie Sedivy, Michif, Stoney Nakoda
Scratching River
The Métis diaspora, we are a braided river channel, a herd of bison on our way to the grasslands up the way, to our relations,” writes Michelle Porter in Scratching River, a literary memoir that emulates these deliberate, meandering movements over the land. Weaving together stories of her brother Brendon, her mother’s determination to find a […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Autism, Bison, Claresholm, Grasslands, Laurie D. Graham, Memoir, Metis, Schizophrenia, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Let’s Debate CanCon
…minus the conspiracy theories.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Censorship, Communism, Facebook, Freedom of Speech, Leadership Race, Paula Simons, Social Media, Twitter
Swollening
War. Pandemic. Environmental collapse. How is a poet supposed to make beauty out of all the ugliness? Edmonton poet Jason Purcell, in their debut poetry collection, Swollening, has found an answer—one as old as The Iliad or the Mahabharata. Look at the ugliness closely and with compassion. Swollening is a serious, painful book about serious, painful […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Alex Rettie, Debut Poetry, Jason Purcell
Briefly Noted: September 2022
New Alberta books
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Biodiversity, Briefly Noted, Essays, Laberinto Press, Northern Lights, Peace Country, Vermilion
Should We Rename Institutions?
A dialogue between Kristopher Wells and Mathew Preston
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Biography, Calgary, Calgary Board of Education, Canada Research Chair, Canmore, Chief of Staff, curriculum, Debate, Discrimination, Edmonton, Iqaluit, Iroquois, Medicare, Pros and Cons, Public Schools, Sexuality, Siksika, Stoney Nakoda, Winston Churchill
The Annual Migration of Clouds
The Annual Migration of Clouds imagines the University of Alberta as the site of a self-sustaining community in a dystopic near-future: the labyrinthine BioSci building is now living quarters and people risk their lives to hunt wild pigs in the river valley. The result, the fifth book from Edmonton’s Premee Mohamed, is a promising start […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Colonialism, ECW Press, Edmonton, Grandmother, Migration, Premee Mohamed, St. Albert, University of Alberta
People Change
Our species has a complex relationship with change. From the moment we depart the womb (arguably our first major encounter with change), each new crossroads comes with a slew of anxieties and frustrations: What if I turn into someone I don’t want to be? What if the thing that’s changing me is external or cosmetic—new clothes, […]
Tags: Memoir, Vivek Shraya
July 4, 2022
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