As the cost of living rises, wages stall and job stability dwindles in Alberta, some question the effectiveness of a middle-of-the-road approach to the pressing issues facing workers. Ximena González reports. #abpoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/29/Has-Alberta-NDP-Veered-Labour-Roots/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

The number of Calgarians who trust the city has seen a 12% drop since 2021.

Amid polarization and a drinking water crisis, how to get it back, reports @ximenaka.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/06/26/Calgary-Citizens-Losing-Trust-City-Hall/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

“We are the voice of music, arts and culture in Alberta.”

The Edmonton radio station CKUA enjoys scads of public support but faces a financial “perfect storm.”

@ximenaka reports. 📻

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/05/21/Canada-Faces-Loss-First-Public-Broadcaster/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Calgary has lost 1,500 non-market rentals since 2021, laying bare Canada’s affordable housing problems. And its solutions. @ximenaka reports. 🏡

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/05/09/Calgary-Lost-Non-Market-Rentals/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

As many Canadian cities face challenges, some city halls are slow to involve citizens in serious discussions about what actions to take.

That’s not only bad for democracy. That can backfire, writes @ximenaka. 🏘

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/04/23/Calgary-Has-Big-Housing-Plans/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

“In Remembering Our Relations, a collaborative oral history led by members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Dënesųłıné people tell the stories of betrayal, dispossession and erasure that enabled the creation of Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta.”

Book review article: https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/04/04/Remembering-Our-Relations-Book
By @ximenaka
Book to order: https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773854113/

🦬 “Save the Buffalo, Shoot the Dene”: Under the guise of conservation, Canada set out to create national parks in the 1800s.

To do so, it forcibly removed the ancestral stewards of the land.

Ximena González explains the creation of Wood Buffalo National Park.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/04/04/Remembering-Our-Relations-Book/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial