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Return of Darkness
The Enlightenment is history.
Tags: Donald Trump, Fred Stenson, Minimum Wage, Twitter
January 1, 2022
Johnny Chinook
…and the invention of Albertan culture
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Banff, Calgary, Capitalism, Chinook, CKUA radio, Colonialism, Commonwealth, Communism, Communist Party, Diamond Valley, Edmonton, Great Depression, Johnny Chinook, Kainai Nation, Leduc, Massey Commission, Mel Hurtig, Oil Industry, Peace Country, Populism, Quality of Life, Radio, Railroad, Rocky Mountain House, Scholarship, Surgery, Teacher Strike, The Banff Centre, Treaty 6, Turner Valley, Wife, Working-Class
Teaching About Power
How civics classes could be made exciting
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Calgary, Dave Meslin, Edmonton, Facebook, Federal Elections, Gender Equality, High School, Lobbyist, Racism, Social Media, Teacher Strike, United Conservative Party, Women's Liberation Movement
Public Housing For Sale?
What happens if the UCP government privatizes low income housing
Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Views, Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped, Boardwalk, Budget, Budget Cuts, Calgary, Capital investment, City Funding, City Planning, Cost of Living, Edmonton, Financialization, Madden, Mickey Amery, Mortgage, Private Sector, Public Housing, Public Subsidies, Real Estate Investment Trusts, Red Tape, Renters, Sam Kolias, University of Manitoba, Urban Development, Ximena Gonzalez
December 1, 2021
All The Rage
A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Alex Rettie, Doubleday Canada, Toronto
The Doll
The Doll isn’t a typical children’s story. An autobiographical tale by Nhung Tran-Davies, it tackles the refugee crisis, surviving stormy seas, and racism. It’s a lot to pack into a handful of paragraphs, yet Tran-Davies does that and more—she fills harrowing subjects with tenderness and optimism. The book begins with a little girl waiting impatiently […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Communism, Racism, Syria, Vietnam
Unlocking
Amy LeBlanc’s debut novella begins with the words of Euphemia Rosenbaum, an eccentric and mysterious woman in the small town of Snowton, Alberta: “Here’s what I’ve always said: a goldfish will eventually grow to fit the size of its bowl, and the same is true of secrets.” From here we learn about the secrets of […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Amy LeBlanc, Emerging Artist Award, University of Calgary Press
Burning the Night
A new Glen Huser book is always welcome, whatever its subject. Huser is one of the steady, quiet lights of Alberta’s writing world—an excellent author who is often underappreciated, which I hope changes with this novel. Burning the Night is both easy and hard to describe. Repressed gay man Curtis comes to Edmonton to attend […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Candas Jane Dorsey, Classical Music, Halifax, Music
Gather
Stories are medicine, and Richard Van Camp’s Gather is medicine Canadians need right now. The book is imbued with joy and playfulness and is the perfect companion read on our journey back to each other as we emerge from COVID-19. What Gather does best, however, is inspire readers to find and share our own stories […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Colonialism, Graphic Novel, Vietnam
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