Book — While contemporaries and historians alike hailed the establishment of Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta as a wildlife saving effort, the political climate of the early twentieth century worked against...
Book — Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern...
Blog — ...writings on aspects of educational technology. Anne-Marie Scott is the Deputy Provost of Athabasca University and has over 18 years of experience in online and distance education. Prior to joining Athabasca...
Blog — ...in Canada, it was its 1937 amendment and the permitting of involuntary sterilizations that made the Alberta eugenics movement truly distinct. During the mid- to late 1930s—a time when the...
Blog — ...excerpt from Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada that shares the story behind the Radical Handmaids. Handmaids on the Hill On 25 April 2012, a small grassroots group of...
Blog — ...there’s a need for better tools. Have we landed on the best tool? No. But it’s probably the best one I’ve seen in my professional career. I see cities getting...
Blog — ...The report goes on to say that the “best practices for Aboriginal wellness involve a range of services from mainstream health care to traditional practices and medicines, all under community...
Blog — ...chose to write his story. Elder Gilman Cardinal began the evening with a prayer. He told the crowd of over a hundred people: “Tonight is about the healing that needs...
Blog — Fearful of losing her family’s history and her father’s memories about Jewish life during World War II in Iran, Farideh Goldin asked Baba, as she called her father, to write...
Blog — ...Anti-abortion Activist To start, I didn’t want to write this. So I searched, hoping to find someone who had a similar experience to share so that I could read their...