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Increased stress levels affect mental health Action is imperative for post-secondary students suffering from mental illness
A new Northlands can be a new opportunity Changes allow Northlands to go back to its roots
Change is in the air, and that means more than the seasonal change to fall. In the blink of an eye, Northlands seems to have been turned on its head. It all happened so fast.
Come Jan. 1, Northlands will hand the reigns of its EXPO Centre to the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC), the City of Edmonton’s arm-length agency that manages the Shaw Conference Centre. Continue reading A new Northlands can be a new opportunity Changes allow Northlands to go back to its roots
Blowing out Canada’s birthday candles Recognizing mistakes and victories for our future
Canada has had a long and terrible history with indigenous peoples.
Let’s state that from the start. If we can’t look at things as they are, we can never hope to make them better.
And we need to make them better. Continue reading Blowing out Canada’s birthday candles Recognizing mistakes and victories for our future
Celebrate Canada Day with perspective Remember our history when celebrating our nation
Dominion Day was my favourite holiday as a child. My parents would load the family into the station wagon and we would drive off to watch the fireworks. That we were celebrating the founding of our nation didn’t factor into my jubilation. My joy was rooted in school being over for another year. That we were celebrating the founding of a nation that relied on a strategy of cultural genocide certainly didn’t cross my min Continue reading Celebrate Canada Day with perspective Remember our history when celebrating our nation
Asking for public dollars Shareholders profit while Albertans foot the bill
The only thing climbing higher than Alberta’s unemployment rate is the audacity of the corporations responsible for the layoffs.
A group of those corporations gathered last month and commanded a full mainstream media news cycle, demanding that Premier Rachel Notley shift course and adopt the failed policies of the previous Progressive Conservative (PC) government. It is true that 80,000 Albertans have lost work since the New Democratic Party (NDP) was elected last May. However, the party has nothing to do with the inability or refusal of the oil industry or the previous PC provincial government to prepare for the inevitable downturn in oil prices.
Continue reading Asking for public dollars Shareholders profit while Albertans foot the bill