Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley published the book that would end up on high school and university reading lists centuries later. Her famous novel, Frankenstein, is iconic and adaptations…
Feature photo by Owen Byrne from Mountain View, USA (Encounter) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The following excerpt is from Michael R. W. Dawson’s latest book, Connectionist Representations of…
On International Women’s Day (March 8), we celebrate the achievements of women and we take a hard look at what still needs to be done to achieve gender parity and…
In this three-part series that reflects conversations had at the launch of Public Deliberation on Climate Change and explored in the book, we will feature the successes, lessons, and a…
In this three-part series that reflects conversations had at the launch of Public Deliberation on Climate Change and explored in the book, we will feature the successes, lessons, and a…
In this three-part series that reflects conversations had at the launch of Public Deliberation on Climate Change and explored in the book, we will feature the successes, lessons, and a…
Issues of sustainability are top of mind for officials at public institutions and governments. But how does an institution develop policies and then integrate them into their procedures and how…
Events February 7: Public Deliberation on Climate Change will be launched at the Edmonton Tower at 6:45 pm. The event, which is a partnership with the City of Edmonton and…
Jason Foster’s new book, Defying Expectations, is an account of the resilient United Food and Commercials Workers Local 401, a union that defied the odds in Alberta, a province that…
A wicked problem has nothing to do with witches of the west or evils that may lurk in the world (fantastical or otherwise). It’s a difficult or maybe even impossible…