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Northern Alberta author Katie Bickell sets her debut novel, Always Brave, Sometimes Kind, mainly in Fort McMurray, Edmonton and Sherwood Park. Her characters travel the Yellowhead Highway, cross paths on farms and an unnamed reserve, and visit, work at or end up in the Royal Alex and Grey Nuns hospitals. Interlaced with the setting and […]

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Barb Howard, Grey Nuns, Opioids, Sherwood Park, Sixties Scoop

January 1, 2021

The Constituency Map

Fiction by Carissa Halton, Illustration by Jonathan Dyck.

Original Fiction

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Carissa Halton, Fast Food, Popular Vote, Surgery, Women's Health

Abuse of Power

Jason Kenney’s many violations of democratic norms

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Alberta Views, Audit, Auditor General, By-Election, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Capital investment, Carbon Tax, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Conflict of Interest, Cronyism, Ecojustice, Election Commissioner, Elections Alberta, Electoral Officer, Federal Elections, Freedom of Information, Jason Kenney, Jeff Callaway, Keystone XL, Leadership Race, Literacy, Lobbyist, Lorne Gibson, Minister of Justice, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Progressive Conservative Party, Rule of Law, Salary, United Conservative Party, Unpaid Taxes, Whistleblowers, Wildrose Party

Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis

Benjamin Perrin’s Overdose is the first book in Canada to address a public health emergency that has claimed the lives of over 16,000 Canadians. After the Yukon and BC, Alberta has the third-highest rate of overdose deaths in the country; in the first six months of 2020 there were 449 overdose deaths here, where many […]

Book Reviews

Tags: Canada, Opioids, Supervised Consumption Site, Yukon

Should Alberta Separate?

A dialogue between Lisa Young and Rick Northey

Dialogue

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Separatism, Alberta Views, Authoritarianism, Debate, Dictatorship, Indian Act, Lisa Young, Monarchy, Monopoly, Patriotism, Pros and Cons, Rule of Law, Supreme Court, Treaty Rights, WEXIT

A Changed World

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be together in a [...]

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Antarctica, Biodiversity, Bitumen, California, Canada Emergency Response Benefit, Canals, CERB, Chrystia Freeland, Coal Mining, Daycare, Fast Food, Food Security, Free Trade, Geriatric Healthcare, Gig Economy, Greenland, Guaranteed Annual Income, Oil and Gas, Palliative Care, Pundits, Quality of Life, Suncor, USA

Year of Unrest

The pandemic wasn’t all we had to cope with in 2020. There was turmoil across Alberta. Protesters blockaded CN Rail’s line west of Edmonton to oppose a gas pipeline in BC. Moms Stop The Harm held a “die-in” at the legislature in response to the threatened closure of supervised consumption sites. UCP government budget cuts […]