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Harper Now Runs Alberta’s $170-Billion Pension Fund. What Could Go Wrong?
Graham Thomson is an award-winning Edmonton-based columnist who has covered Alberta politics for more than 30 years, first with the Edmonton Journal and now as a freelancer. Get some gift-giving ...
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The Case for the Carbon Tax
Anti-carbon tax protesters, like these people waving signs and chanting slogans as they block a lane of the Trans-Canada Highway near Cochrane, Alberta, are winning the day. Photo by Jeff McIntosh ...
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The Growth and Evolution of the Far Right in Canada
Stéphane Leman-Langlois and Aurélie Campana are professors at Université Laval. Samuel Tanner is a professor at Université de Montréal. This article was originally published by the Conversation.
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Postcard from Seattle, Birthplace of Modular Home Design
Who works: Robert Humble leads a team of seven architects and creatives at the Seattle architecture firm Hybrid Architecture, where he is the founding partner and design principal. What works ...
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Eby Announces a ‘New Team’ to Run BC
Premier David Eby named a new cabinet and made big changes to some ministries. Photo by Chad Hipolito, the Canadian Press. B.C. Premier David Eby appointed a new cabinet Monday that gives several ...
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Timothy Snyder: ‘Our Problem Is Us’
Timothy Snyder’s latest book offers a bracing lens through which to understand our political moment. ‘Freedom is not just an absence of evil,’ he writes, ‘but a presence of good.
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Nervous about Teaching Indigenous Content? Here’s Some Pro Advice
Educator Carolyn Roberts: ‘We need to be able to really see how the system operates.’ Photo by Michele Mateus, Mateus Studios. B.C.’s kindergarten to Grade 12 education system is fully ...
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How Century-Old Slum Reforms Led to Today’s Housing Crisis
Housing is an important political issue. Politicians and experts now talk about it as a major crisis that could threaten our economic and social well-being. But this is nothing new. Another ...
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Are We Cancelling the Enlightenment?
When enlightenment was cool. Detail of The Weimar Courtyard of the Muses, 1860, by Theobald von Oer, depicts famous German poets Friedrich Shiller, at centre, and Goethe, to the right. Image via ...
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Richard Powers Is the Writer We Need Now
Richard Powers’ new novel Playground is a fascinating exploration of the ocean, friendship and the nature of change. Photo via Shutterstock. I read Richard Powers’ new novel Playground earlier ...
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Drilling Down: What Can We Learn from BC’s Flipped Ridings?
The BC NDP lost 10 seats. The BC Conservatives hung on to ridings previously held by BC United and won even more, totalling a right-wing gain of 16 seats. Every 10 years, the BC Electoral ...
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On BC’s North Coast, First Nations Are Building a New Economy
Guardian Watchmen survey the Great Bear Sea. Photo by Emilee Gilpin, Coastal First Nations. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia, salmon do. After ...