A video of a Calgary developer urging his audience to become involved in the upcoming municipal election to "ensure we [the developers] have the eight votes" on council needed to guarantee their policy agenda caused quite a public backlash. It also provides an opportunity to think more deeply...

In the recent Alberta budget, millions of dollars were devoted to funding private education, even though there appears to be very little public support for this. The Sheldon Chumir Foundation asked Albertans about their vision of public education in recent consultations in nearly a dozen communities. A majority of Albertans...

In its Global Risks 2013 report, The World Economic Forum (WEF) identified income disparity as one of the world's greatest risks. Statistics Canada reports that the income gap between the top 1 per cent of Canadians and everyone else continues to widen to alarming levels. The WEF warns...

The Calgary Board of Education recently changed its policy in order to accept corporate advertising in classrooms and other school spaces. We should not welcome this possibility. The felt need for billboards in classrooms is emblematic of an eroding government commitment to public education rather than a simple...

Alberta's profound changes in social attitudes are finally being recognized in political reality. For the first time in history, an Alberta premier attended and spoke at Edmonton's gay pride parade, funding was recently reinstated for gender-reassignment surgery, and the public didn't flinch.

For those who think history was...