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Contacting the Premier
When I was offered the Director of Correspondence job in Premier Notley’s office in June 2015, the title triggered images of a quill pen and ink pot atop a Dickens-era desk. Reading the premier’s correspondence, however, quickly returned me to the modern age: Weekly stacks of hand-written letters paled next to hundreds of emails, social […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Carissa Halton, Social Media
March 1, 2020
Should Universities “Deplatform” Speakers?
A dialogue between Irfan Chaudry and Michael Kennedy
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Court of Queen's Bench, Debate, Freedom of Speech, genocide, Homosexuality, Iran, LGBTQ, Liberal Arts, Minister of Advanced Education, Muslim, Polarization, Pros and Cons, Pundits, Red Tape, Sexuality, Social Media
How Ethical is Alberta’s Governing Party?
Reviewing UCP scandals
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Donna Kennedy-Glans, Doug Ford, Election Commissioner, Elections Alberta, Electoral Officer, Floor Crossing, Golf Courses, Jason Kenney, Jeff Callaway, Leadership Race, Livingstone, Lorne Gibson, Minister of Justice, Polling Stations, Progressive Conservative Party, Public Opinion, Reproductive Rights, Resignation, Salary, United Conservative Party, Wildrose Party
Getting the Axe
The UCP struck swiftly to stack public boards
Tags: Abortion, Adam Waterous, Alberta, Alberta Views, Alcohol, Alison Redford, Athabasca, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Athabasca University, Autonomy, Banff, Budget, Budget Cuts, Canada Revenue Agency, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Cannabis, Cenovus, City Council, Dene Nation, Don Braid, Donna Kennedy-Glans, Fraser Institute, Freedom of Speech, James Rajotte, Keyano College, Leduc, Minister of Advanced Education, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Suncor, Surgery, The Banff Centre, Think Tank, United Conservative Party, Wildrose Party, Workers’ Compensation Board
Inside the War Room
Exclusive leaks from Kenney’s mighty propaganda arm
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Carbon Pricing, Carbon Tax, CERAWeek, Chris Turner, Dictatorship, Freedom of Information, Greenpeace, Hedge Funds, International Energy Agency, Jason Kenney, NASA, Oil and Gas, Oil Industry, Oil Sands, Patriotism, Pembina Institute, Pierre Trudeau, Pipelines, Press Gallery, Propaganda, Resignation, Saudi Arabia, Simon and Schuster, Social Media, Socialism, Suncor, Trans Mountain Pipeline, United Conservative Party
The Inquirer
The Inquirer is a tabloid that mysteriously appears at the local convenience store in Kingsley, Alberta. Rather than detailing the lives of celebrities, however, the paper turns up the latest dirt on local residents. This is a first for Kingsley, a quintessential small Albertan town where everyone has known everyone since elementary school and the […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Sexuality, Social Media
January 1, 2020
The Dark Set
New Tenderman Poems
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Edmonton, Fatherhood, Kelly Shepherd, Thistledown Press, Tim Bowling, Wolsak and Wynn, Working-Class
An Honest Woman
Calgary writer JoAnn McCaig’s latest novel, An Honest Woman, has a matryoshka doll structure: It layers the story of a single, middle-aged woman who is writing a novel about a single, middle-aged woman who is writing a novel about a single, middle-aged woman who has an affair with a famous British novelist. If you were […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Jannie Edwards, JoAnn McCaig, Thistledown Press
Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up
A warlike parliament. Infantile legislatures. “My way or the highway” leaders. Legislation-by-lobbyist. Ignored grassroots. Unrepresentative governments (Canada has had a female PM for all of 132 days). Toxic elections whose outcomes badly distort how we actually vote. Citizen apathy. This is Canada’s democracy, argues Dave Meslin (compellingly). The activist and community organizer believes, however, that […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Dave Meslin, Denver, Electoral Reform, Evan Osenton, First Past the Post, Legal Aid, Lobbyist, Popular Vote
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