Let’s be clear. An independent Alberta would be founded on a shameful betrayal of Indigenous people. Before Alberta was a province, the Crown signed treaties (6, 7, 8) with Indigenous people who ...

Revolution Songs is the debut novel of Carissa Halton, a communications consultant and keynote speaker on community development and government relations. Despite Revolution Songs being her first foray ...

Equalization has long been contentious to Albertans. The program has clear design flaws, but the even bigger issue is that Albertans make important contributions to Canada yet bear the brunt of ...

During the last US presidential campaign an ominous 920-page policy document emerged into the public eye courtesy of the Heritage Foundation. Known as Project 2025, it laid out a blueprint for a ...

On a frigid February night in Edmonton, I’m downtown with 4B Harm Reduction. The street outreach conducted by this non-profit society is time-tested—scour the city’s forgotten corners for people who ...

“Thats Connie,” says Marco Luciano, pointing to his laptop, at a photo of a Filipino woman holding a blond toddler in one hand and a vacuum cleaner in the other, in an upscale house in Edmonton.

Canada has too many disengaged citizens. Voter turnout is the simplest measure of this. For federal and provincial elections over the past decade, one-third of us have simply skipped out entirely. For ...

The rise of the right-wing, authoritarian populist movements across the Western world owes much to the support of rural citizens who are increasingly feeling left behind economically and culturally ...

As Canada is a signatory to UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, our answer should be yes. Article 20(2)—“No one may be compelled to belong to an association”—articulates a person’s right ...

Executive director of the Association of Independent Schools and Colleges in Alberta Private schools, also referred to as independent schools, play a vital role in Alberta’s education landscape. They ...

Subsequent events have cast shadows over the jubilant atmosphere at the BMO Centre in Calgary on October 28, 2017. This was a banner night for conservatism in Alberta as former federal cabinet ...

My maternal grandmother, my Oma, was the person I loved best in the world, and my own personal heroine. She’d been born in a German-speaking community in what we now call Ukraine, the daughter of a ...