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The Nenshi Years
Taking stock of the purple wave
Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Bike Lanes, Bus Rapid Transit, Calgary Flames, Calgary Flood, Calgary Green Line, Chris Turner, City Council, City Hall, Cost of Living, COVID 19, CTrains, Cycling, Dave Bronconnier, Energy Transition, Ezra Levant, Facebook, Floods, Hockey, Homeowners, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, McMahon Stadium, Mount Royal University, Municipal Elections, Muslim, Naheed Nenshi, Olympic Bid, Olympics, Public Library, Saddledome, Secondary Suites, Simon and Schuster, Social Media, Socialism, Stampede, Stephen Harper, Sustainable Calgary, Transit, Twitter, Victoria Park, Voter Apathy, Voter Turnout, Xenophobia
October 1, 2021
The Cracks in the Culture of Conformity
In conservative rural Alberta, newspaper columns provide a forum for critique
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Medical Association, Alberta Views, Austerity, Blogging, Bob Edwards, Budget, Budget Cuts, Canada, Canada Health Act, Cypress, David Climenhaga, Drumheller, Grant MacEwan, Independent Media, Jeremy Klaszus, Journalism, National Post, Newspapers, Private Sector, Public Healthcare, Public Opinion, Pulitzer Prize, Rocky Mountain House, Salary, Social Media, Socialism, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Stettler, Sundre, Twitter, Vegreville, Vulcan, Wildrose Party
Sidewalks to Nowhere
All taxpayers subsidize the high costs of new suburbs. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Views, City Council, City Funding, City Planning, Denver, Homeowners, Maryland, Municipal Elections, Real Estate Investment Trusts, Rollin Stanley, Tax Revenue, Urban Development, Vacancy
The Legacy of Don Iveson
Mayor of an Edmonton still to be
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Approval Rating, Bike Lanes, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, Cycling, Don Iveson, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, Geothermal Energy, Karen Leibovici, Kerry Diotte, Mike Nickel, Oil Prices, Populism, Raj Pannu, Sturgeon, Tim Querengesser, Urban Sprawl, Wife, Wildrose Party, Zoning
Briefly Noted: October 2021
New Alberta books
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Briefly Noted, Coal Mining, Crowsnest Pass, Glaciers
September 1, 2021
Seen But Not Seen
Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Colonialism, Enfranchisement, Indigenous Leaders, Indigenous Rights, Maskwacis, University of Toronto Press
Coconut
Coconut. Brown on the outside and white on the inside. A term that has been hurled at me by South Asian brown folks who think I’m not brown enough, not South Asian or Sikh/Punjabi enough, and who, when they meet me in person, ask, “Have you been to India?” Coconut, a bold title for Canadian […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Cultural appropriation, Debut Poetry, Punjabi, Sikh, South Asia
The Lesson of Lougheed
A better Alberta is always possible
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Bill of Rights, Alberta Views, Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped, David King, Hansard, Heritage Fund, Heritage Trust Fund, Minister of Education, Oil Prices, Peter Lougheed, Petrostate, Progressive Conservative Party, Public Schools, Racism, Scholarship, Supreme Court, Workers’ Compensation Board
Lougheed: The Arrival of Modern Alberta
The dirty thirties were not kind to Alberta. The Great Depression had ravaged farms, families and fortunes. In Calgary, as his grandson watched with foreboding, the estate of Senator Sir James Lougheed, a pillar of the community (and instrumental in Alberta’s becoming a province in 1905), was auctioned for taxes. The contents of the stately Beaulieu were […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Deputy Premier, Executive Council, Great Depression, Lee Richardson, Peter Lougheed, Pierre Trudeau, Skiing
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