Alberta goes orange
– and reasserts its cooperative heritage (May 6, 2015) Watching last night’s Alberta election results were at once surprising and inspiring – surprising because of the scale of the upset after 44 years of the same party in power. Inspiring because the NDP victory under Rachel Notley builds on an Alberta tradition of cooperation and community development much deeper than the more...
Read MorePrairie culture carved in steel
(June 8, 2014) Sometimes a single act or event can symbolize a whole culture. June 8th is the 66th anniversary of one of those profound acts. And this year’s announcement that the University of Saskatchewan will be closing its law library is one of those events which symbolize a different culture. One of the displays in that law library was the rear fender from a farm tractor which...
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