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What If BC Has Got It Totally Wrong on Forest Management?
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Can BC’s Carbon Tax Be Saved? Should It Be?
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Danielle Smith’s Game Show Approach to Fixing Things
Lisa Young is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary. Her newsletter on Alberta politics is What Now?!? on Substack. Rigged outcomes? ‘What we have seen’ is ‘a ...
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CONTEST: Win a $100 Gift Certificate to Your Fav Local Bookstore
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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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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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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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Are We Really Trying to Solve the Housing Crisis?
‘A housing system based on the market mechanism cannot respond to social need,’ says University of Toronto housing scholar David Hulchanski. Photo courtesy of Christopher Cheung. Ten years ago ...
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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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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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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 ...