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Night of Power
Night of Power is the debut novel of Anar Ali, a short-fiction writer who grew up in Red Deer. The book opens with an evocative prologue of a man waking in a frozen prairie landscape, attempting but failing to rise to his feet. In the opening chapter, we see the same man, Mansoor Visram, in […]

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Chauvinism, Jasmina Odor
July 1, 2020
I Am Herod
Richard Kelly Kemick is an agnostic who decides to try out for a role in the Canadian Badlands Passion Play. It’s a lark. He’s starting to conclude he’s less a writer than a failed writer, his relationship with his girlfriend is in a rough patch—maybe a few months camped out in the badlands re-enacting the […]

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Badlands, Goose Lane, Richard Kelly Kemick
Air Salt
A trauma mémoire as a result of the fall

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Debut Poetry, Steven Ross Smith, University of Calgary Press
Winning Chance
No part of Katherine Koller’s Winning Chance is cynical. The 15 stories in this collection—the first from the Edmonton-based playwright and novelist—read more like the good-news piece at the end of a broadcast than the doom-and-gloom preceding it. You know the story, the one that radiates such human goodness it couldn’t possibly be true, except […]

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Enfield and Wizenty, Motherhood
Truth Be Told
My Journey Through Life and the Law

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Barb Howard, Beverley Mclachlin, Simon and Schuster, Supreme Court
The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success
Overcoming myths that hinder progress

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Capitalism, Carbon Pricing, Naomi Klein, Surgery
Finding Fortitude
Canada’s most powerful memorial.

Tags: Afghanistan, Alberta, Alberta Views, Paula Simons, Taliban
June 1, 2020
Organizing a Constituency Association
Bringing politics to the people

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, CUPE, Elections Alberta
Crisis of Confidence
A leadership scandal threatens the energy regulator’s essential work

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Views, Alison Redford, Audit, Auditor General, Brazil, Canada Research Chair, Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Press, Carbon Tax, Chief of Staff, Colombia, Deloitte, Energy Resources Conservation Board, Ethics Commissioner, Jim Ellis, Leduc, Legal counsel, Margaret McCuaig-Boyd, Newspapers, Orphan Wells, Pembina Institute, Peter Lougheed, Public Safety, Red Tape, Suncor, Tailings Ponds, Whistleblowers
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