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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Jim Coutts

Jim Coutts is chair of the Lester B. Pearson College Foundation and a past chair of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. He was private secretary to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and principal secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

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Three Provinces, Three Cultures

How did Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta turn out so differently? July–August 2011
The ecent federal election gave the Harper Conservatives and the New Democratic Party the upper hand in Ottawa. Since both parties had their origins in Prairie protest movements, the roots of which go back over a century, it is useful to look at the forces that launched them. For more than a hundred years these forces have had huge impacts on election outcomes in…