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Talking With Bears
Conversations with Charlie Russell
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bears, Charlie Russell, Maureen Enns, Rocky Mountain Books
October 1, 2020
Dirty Birds
Morgan Murray’s debut novel, Dirty Birds, hints at being loosely biographical from the start, when the rural Alberta born and raised Murray introduces us to Milton Ontario, a diffident small-town prairie kid. Ontario, sick of the listlessness of life in Bellybutton, Saskatchewan, decides he’ll pursue the life of a poet in Montreal, emulating his hero, […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Andrew Guilbert, Breakwater Books, Cape Breton, Landfills, Romance
Suddenly There’s Room at the Inn
Thousands remained homeless in spite of Alberta’s 10-year plan. Then the pandemic came.
Tags: Abstinence, Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Views, Amber Bracken, Austerity, Boyle Street, Calgary, Cancer, Canmore, Coal Mining, COVID 19, Domestic Abuse, Don Iveson, Drop-in Centre, Edmonton, Edmonton Oilers, Food Security, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Hockey, Homeless Shelters, Indigenous, Kinsmen Sports Centre, Landlords, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Naheed Nenshi, Ottawa, Population, Public Healthcare, Public Opinion, Red Deer, Renters, Ronald Kneebone, Stephen Harper, Supervised Consumption Site, Susan McGee, Tim Querengesser, Tim Richter, Transalta, Treaty Rights, Women's Shelter
What Can I Say?
Poetry is not an expression of the party line,” according to Allen Ginsberg. “It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” In his latest book, What Can I Say?, veteran Alberta poet and retired farmer Charles Noble follows Ginsberg’s advice: […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Andrew Suknaski, Charles Noble, Essays, Sid Marty
Hunting the “Wild” Pheasant
30,000 ring-necks raised and released for sport
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Conservation, Hunting, Lutheran, Madden, Pheasant, Poultry, Reservoir, Taber, Vietnam
Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood
Inner-city urban challenges abound, but “people look out for their neighbours.”
Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta Avenue, Brian Mason, Dave Cournoyer, Edmonton, Social Assistance, Supervised Consumption Site, Working-Class
September 29, 2020
The Red Chesterfield, Broke City and The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner
As the English novelist P.D. James once noted, literature is full of works driven by an unanswered question—often involving crime or an act of violence, which is finally answered by the story’s protagonist. The most obvious examples fall within the detective sub-genre of crime […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Madden, Mavericks, University of Calgary Press, Wendy McGrath, Winnipeg, Working-Class
September 1, 2020
Feminist Acts
Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Carol Williams, Edmonton, Feminism, Ranching, University of Alberta Press, University of Lethbridge
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