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Why Coal Mines Always Get Approved
Alberta’s flawed environmental assessment process.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca River, Australia, Banff, Banff National Park, Blairmore, Caribou, Coal Mining, Corb Lund, Country Music, Crowsnest Pass, Eastern Slopes, elk river, Environmental impact statement, Facebook, Grassy Mountain, Groundwater, Hinton, Oil Sands, Prison, Rivers, Selenium, Social Media, Syncrude, Tailings Ponds, Tax Revenue, Teck Resources, Veterans
July 1, 2021
Creating Art for Alberta Parks
What do you get when you mix frustration, creative energy and a threat to our province’s protected areas?
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Parks, Alberta Views, CPAW, Parks and Recreation, Social Media
June 30, 2021
Goth Girls of Banff
Fear not, this book isn’t—despite its title—a collection of goth fantasies or undead horrors. The setting is the Bow Valley and surroundings, and the 10 stories well capture elements of this mountain environment: its peaks, forests, creatures and human characters who evoke humour and pathos. In the compelling opening story, “What is Written or Talking […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bow Valley, Castle Mountain, Prison, Steven Ross Smith
The Way of the Gardener
Lost in the Weeds Along the Camino de Santiago
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Megan Clark, Spain, University of Regina Press
On Nostalgia
What is nostalgia? Is it a growing phenomenon, an increasing trend in our accelerating world? Or has it always been with us, an essential part of the human condition? These are some of the questions that Edmonton author David Berry unpacks in his debut book. A slim volume, On Nostalgia nonetheless manages to delve deeply […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Bruce Cinnamon, Coach House Books, Consumerism
Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
As a memoirist and occasional teacher of the form, I read Trina Moyles’ Lookout with more than a general reader’s interest, knowing that these days even the most talented writers have a hard time getting their manuscripts accepted by Canada’s big publishers. Moyles’ book provides an example of how it’s done: tell an interesting story […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Boreal Forest, Forests, Random House Canada, Sharon Butala
Pandemic Poems & We Are One
Poems from the Pandemic
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Bayeux Arts, Biography, Christian Bök, COVID 19, George Melnyk, K.B. Thors, Outer Space, Red Deer County, Thomas Trofimuk
What Bears Teach Us
I used to be in the bear police back in the 1960s and 1970s in the mountain national parks, although the actual policing meant ticketing bear botherers rather than the bears themselves. Lots of people were fined, though not nearly enough, and too many bears died as the result of poor garbage management and political […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canmore, Hedge Funds, John E. Marriott, Lawsuits, Policing, Sid Marty, Winston Churchill
Biodiversity
Variety isn’t just the “spice of life” – it’s the foundation upon which we thrive.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Aurora, Biodiversity, Fertilizer, Grasslands, Monoculture, Wetlands
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