Is Alberta Overregulated?

A dialogue between Ricardo Acuña and Laura Jones

• Dialogue

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Coal Mining, Debate, Mortgage, Nova Scotia, Pros and Cons, Red Tape, Ricardo Acuna, Think Tank, Zoning

June 1, 2020

Briefly Noted June 2020

New Alberta Books: June 2020

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Briefly Noted, Commonwealth, Geriatric Healthcare, Graphic Novel, Great Depression, Joanne Jackson, Palliative Care, Renegade Arts Entertainment, Socialism, Stonehouse Publishing

The New Alberta Advantage

Technology, policy and the future of the oil sands

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Carbon Pricing, Carbon Tax, Energy Transition, Suncor

Eight Track

In her sixth book of poetry, Oana Avasilichioaei offers a multi-frequency meditation on the various meanings of “tracks” and “tracking”—sound tracks, animal tracks, landscapes and languages as “trackscapes,” technology (old and new) as tracking devices for surveillance, “security” and control. Avasilichioaei, a tracker of tracks on whom not much is lost, reaches back to retrieve […]

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Christine Wiesenthal, Essays, Peru, Translation

Bad Law

Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada

• Book Reviews
• Non Fiction

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canmore, Criminal Justice, Department of Justice, Racism

Deregulation by Stealth

Fast approvals are not the sign of an effective regulator

• Energy
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Views, Deregulation, Freedom of Information, Lobbyist, Motherhood, Red Tape

Uncanny Resemblance

The disturbing similarities between premiers Aberhart and Kenney

• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca University, Austerity, Authoritarianism, Blogging, British North America Act, Budget, Budget Cuts, Canada Pension Plan, Capitalism, Chief Firearms Office, Collective Bargaining, Denver, Deregulation, Eric Strikwerda, Facebook, Fair Deal Panel, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Speech, Great Depression, High School, Holocaust, Jason Kenney, Labour Market, Neoliberalism, Oil Industry, Oil Prices, Propaganda, Social Credit party, Social Media, Supreme Court, Trevor Tombe, William Aberhart

Calgary-Buffalo

High population density brings festivals, businesses and hot-button politics.

• Community Profile

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Chamber of Commerce, Inglewood, Joe Ceci, Opioids, Sled Island, Vacancy

May 1, 2020

Is a Referendum a Good Way to Make a Decision?

A dialogue between Ted Morton and Jared Wesley

• Dialogue

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