Alberta officially started its path to reach a minimum salary of $15 an hour by 2018. The cabinet passed the legislation to launch the phased […]
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When Your Soapbox is Burning, Stop Preaching: Wildfires are a Disaster. Period.
Fort MacMurray and large swaths of Northern Alberta have been burning for a few days. Homes and communities have been destroyed and people have died, […]
#ABvotes2015: Forget the Face, the Rhetoric is Changing
“Alberta this morning woke-up to an NDP government!” From what pollsters say, this will be the headline on May 6th. Let’s put our justified reticence […]
First Nations sidelined for environmental degredation: Van Waarden cont.
For over eight weeks, photographer Robert Van Waarden travelled from Hardisty Alberta to Saint-John New Brunswick in order to talk with and photograph residents living along the projected […]
Bitumen Bubble Bust: Why Alberta’s oil sands are sinking Canada
Not since Confederation has a nation-building project determined so much of Canada’s future, divided Canadians and equaled the endeavor of CP Rail, than Alberta pipelines. […]
What in Tar-nation? Alberta’s Tar Sands at the Dinner Table
We can’t talk about it at the holiday dinner table because one of the kids picked himself up and got himself out of debt by getting a job there. Sure, we’ve touched on it briefly after a couple of mojitos, but when I first learned that my brother-in-law was a mechanic for the larger-than-life trucks that speckle Fort McMurray, Canada’s oil-country, it put a frog in my throat, especially since I used to be heavily associated with Greenpeace, a leading campaigner against the Alberta tar sands. Getting into the pros and cons of the Alberta operation would lead…