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The UCP wants job-skills factories

I used to be in the bear police back in the 1960s and 1970s in the mountain national parks, although the actual policing meant ticketing bear botherers rather than the bears themselves. Lots of [...]

No party is looking out for rural Albertans.

First Nations policing in Alberta

A dialogue between Avnish Nanda and Howard Burns

Former Calgary cop Terry Coleman inspires a better response to people in mental health crisis

  AV: Why seek office? Why the NDP? So where I grew up, the Cowichan Valley, is a big resource area. My dad’s in forestry, as are a lot of people I know. And when I was born, in 1975, Tommy [...]

A dialogue between Danielle Smith and Alvin Finkel

Can the creative sector help stabilize Alberta’s boom-bust economy?

Profiting from human suffering.