“Guernica” is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most powerful anti-war painting in history. Image from Wikimedia Commons. I stand before Guernica, the familiar canvas of dismembered bodies, dead babies and soldiers;
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Canadian Dimension: Alberta’s dangerous lurch to the far-right
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Anger and Angst: Jason Kenney’s Legacy and Alberta’s Right, edited by Trevor Harrison and Ricardo Acuña. At this book’s heart lies an account of how the United Conservative Party has governed; and the ideas, personalities, and social forces that have driven
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Bill 1 and Alberta’s Ongoing Descent into Authoritarianism
Alberta premier and United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney arrives at a rally protesting against Bill C-69 in Calgary. Tuesday, April 9th, 2019. Photo by Tom Ross/660 NEWS. Since winning the April 2019 Alberta election, Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party (UCP) government has pushed through a swath of legislative policies,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Jason Kenney Alberta
Photo by Tom Ross (660 NEWS, Edmonton) The 2019 Alberta election is over. Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party will form the province’s next government. But who is Jason Kenney? And what might his election mean for Alberta and perhaps Canada? Like many prominent conservative Alberta politicians, Kenney was actually born
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Morbid symptoms: Alberta’s yellow vest movement
Photo by Brendan Collinge Parroting – or perhaps parodying – the Yellow Vest movement in France, hundreds of similarly dressed protesters began taking to Alberta’s streets in the weeks leading up to Christmas 2018. On the surface, some of their grievances appear to mirror those of the French gilets jaunes
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: A Bigger Role for Alberta
Many will remember the made-in-Alberta bumper sticker of the 1980s that told Canadians outside of Alberta that they could “freeze in the dark.” The message caught the mood of many Albertans enraged by the National Energy Program. In his role as premier, Ralph Klein rarely missed the opportunity to invoke
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Debt Crisis: A Case of False Memory Syndrome
The acclaimed author, Milan Kundera, has written that, “The struggle of man
against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” But the ongoing
world financial crisis shows how false memories can fool us and make us
unable to confr…