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Is a Referendum a Good Way to Make a Decision?
A dialogue between Ted Morton and Jared Wesley
Tags: Abortion, Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, City Council, Debate, Electoral Reform, Kim Campbell, Municipal Elections, Notwithstanding Clause, Olympics, People’s Party, Personal Income Tax, Pierre Trudeau, Populism, Property Rights, Pros and Cons, Referendum, Rule of Law, Separatist, Supreme Court
May 1, 2020
Adam’s Choice
A First Nation weighs the pros and cons of buying into the oil and gas industry
Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Views, Allan Adam, Athabasca, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Athabasca River, Bison, Bitumen, Budget, Budget Cuts, Carbon Tax, Caribou, Casinos, Cenovus, Conklin, Dene Nation, Fort Chipewyan, Indigenous Leaders, Legal action, Mikisew Cree Nation, Minister of Indigenous Relations, Muskrat, Oil and Gas, Oil Spills, Pipelines, Press Gallery, Rick Wilson, Rivers, South Africa, Suncor, Syncrude, Tailings Ponds, Teck Resources, Tourism, Trans Mountain Pipeline, Treaty Rights, University of Manitoba, W. Brett Wilson, Wood Buffalo
Briefly Noted: May 2020
New Alberta Books
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Art History, Athabasca University Press, Bayeux Arts, Briefly Noted, Populism, South America, University of Calgary Press
Boom Time, Tar Swan and Prologue for the Age of Consequence
Garth Martens’s debut performance, in his 2014 book Prologue for the Age of Consequence, set a poetic template, hammered together with a framer’s hammer and a carpenter’s level, for writing about construction work in general and the Alberta “tar sands” in particular. In the poem “Leathering,” he writes: He forgets his reasons, his debts, […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Cormac McCarthy, David Martin, Gaspereau Press, House of Anansi Press, Livingstone, NeWest Press, Oil Sands, Psychedelics, Sid Marty
Fractured Forest
Alberta’s Seismic lines dilemma
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bison, Bitumen, Carbon Sinks, Caribou, Cenovus, Methane, Oil and Gas, Seismic Lines
Rain Comin’ Down
Water, Memory and Identity in a Changed World
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Anthropocene, Australia, Biodiversity, Canmore, Glaciers, Rivers, Robbie Jeffrey, Robert William Sandford
Disrupting Business As Usual
During the morning rush hour of October 7, 2019, 10 members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion Edmonton locked arms and blockaded Walterdale Bridge, shutting down traffic for 80 minutes. I was one of those 10 people. I am an artist, a law school graduate and now, apparently, a notorious activist. But I am […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Biodiversity
Who’s Keeping Watch?
Alberta’s waning press gallery
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Chamber of Commerce, Facebook, Graham Thomson, Journalism, Keith Gerein, Oil Prices, Social Media
The Eater of Dreams
Steps away from the bombed-out remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall stands a small statue memorializing Sadako Sasaki, who was just two years old when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city. She lived another 10 years, dying in 1955 from leukemia caused by radiation poisoning. She began folding […]
Tags: Thistledown Press
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