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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Roger Gibbins

Roger Gibbins is a retired academic and former president of the Canada West Foundation.

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Roger Gibbins

The Western "Colonies"

Our notion of equal provinces from sea to sea is surprisingly new January–February 2013
In Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation, Mary Janigan addresses a large and contentious issue—the place of the West in Canada—by exploring the historical struggle of the Prairie provinces to secure ownership of their natural resources on the same constitutional footing enjoyed by the other…

The Rich Kid

Where does Alberta fit in the Canadian family now? May 2005