All That Glitters

A Climber’s Journey Through Addiction and Depression

• Book Reviews
• Non Fiction

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Alcohol, Antarctica, Canmore, Elaine Morin, Icefields Parkway, Memoir, Rocky Mountain Books, Suicide

March 1, 2021

Rough

The epigraph to Rough, from The Hobbit—“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”—could not be more fitting. Rough is not only about living “rough,” homeless on the streets, but also about ways of looking, seeing […]

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bow River, Rivers, Stonehouse Publishing

Storying Violence

Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Pheasant, Propaganda

If Sylvie Had Nine Lives

We meet Sylvie, the protagonist of Leona Theis’s third book, If Sylvie Had Nine Lives, in 1974, two nights before her wedding day in Ripley, Saskatchewan. She’s 19 and ambivalent about her deadbeat fiancé, Jack, and the single-stream eternity of small-town life ahead of her. While Jack is passed out on the couch, she slow […]

• Book Reviews

Tags: Abortion, Resignation

The Expendables

How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalization

• Book Reviews
• Non Fiction

Tags: Abortion, Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Aluminum, Authoritarianism, Globalization, Peru, Populism, Racism, Random House Canada, Tariffs, Xenophobia

A Rogue Conservative

Drew Barnes vs. the premier.

• On the Ledge

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, Autonomy, Canada Pension Plan, Cypress, Fair Deal Panel, Floor Crossing, Freedom of Speech, Graham Thomson, Mavericks, Progressive Conservative Party, Separatist, Wildrose Party

Sacred Trails

Seeing what’s already there.

• Columns

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bison, Railroad, Siksika

Ask Questions First, Shoot Never

First Nations policing in Alberta

• Feature
• Indigenous Topics
• Police

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, Allan Adam, Audit, Auditor General, Cardston, Casinos, Chief of Police, Colonialism, Criminal Justice, Dene Nation, Everett Soop, Fort Chipewyan, Harm Reduction, Kainai Nation, Minister of Justice, Paramedics, Policing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Public Safety, Racism, Residential Schools, Salary, Siksika, Tsuut'ina Nation, Veterans

Should We Defund Police?

A dialogue between Avnish Nanda and Howard Burns

• Dialogue
• Police

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, Alcohol, Canada, Court of Queen's Bench, Debate, Monopoly, Police Violence, Policing, Prison, Pros and Cons, Psychiatric Hospital, Public Safety, Racism