Alberta, Past and Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alberta, Past and Present write by John Blue. This book was released on 1924. Alberta, Past and Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950
Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950 write by Eric John Hanson. This book was released on 2003. Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eric Hanson Albertas first, and arguably greatest, economist wrote a number of influential books on federal-provincial relations, education finance, health care finance, and energy economics. His doctoral thesis was entitled A Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950 and was found by Paul Boothe at the University of Alberta library while Boothe was doing research on Alberta government spending almost forty-five years after it was written. This "forgotten gem" sheds light on the institutional, economic, and public development of the province from a financial perspective. With a detailed and analytical introduction, this edited work provides historical perspective on the perennial problems facing Alberta's fiscal managers: wildly fluctuating revenues, in-migration, seemingly insatiable demands for infrastructure, high-quality public services, and resistance to taxes while exuding an optimistic attitude for the future.
Working People in Alberta
Working People in Alberta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working People in Alberta write by Alvin Finkel. This book was released on 2012. Working People in Alberta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Stupid to the Last Drop
Stupid to the Last Drop - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stupid to the Last Drop write by William Marsden. This book was released on 2007. Stupid to the Last Drop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future. In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself. As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet-bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells. In so doing, it is running out of water, destroying its range land, wiping out its forests and wildlife and spewing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, adding to global warming at a rate that is unrivalled in Canada or almost anywhere else in the world. It’s digging, drilling and blasting its way to oblivion, becoming the ultimate symbol of Canada’s – and the world’s – pathological will to self-destruct. Nowhere has the world seen such colossal environmental destruction as is being wreaked on Alberta. At one point the province even went so far as to consider a scientist’s idea of nuking its underbelly to get at the tar sands.Stupid to the Last Droplooks at the increasingly violent geopolitical forces that are gathering as the world’s gas and oil dwindle and the Age of Oil begins its inevitable slide towards oblivion. As Canadians deplete their energy reserves, selling them off to Americans at bargain-basement prices, no thought is given to conservation or the long-term needs of the nation. In this powerful polemic, William Marsden journeys across the heart of a province seized by the destructive forces of greed, power and the energy business, and envisions a very bleak future.
A Short History of Canada
A Short History of Canada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Short History of Canada write by Desmond Morton. This book was released on 2017-08-29. A Short History of Canada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fully updated edition of the Canadian classic. Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this expanded, seventh edition of A Short History of Canada, readers need look no further. Desmond Morton, one of Canada's most highly respected historians, is keenly aware of the ways in which our past informs the present, and in one compact and engrossing volume, he pulls off the remarkable feat of bringing it all together -- from the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans, to Confederation, to Stephen Harper's prime ministership, to Justin Trudeau's victory in the 2015 election. His acute observations on the Diefenbaker era, the effects of the post-war influx of immigrants, the Trudeau years and the constitutional crisis, the Quebec referendum, the rise of the Canadian Alliance, and Canada under Harper's governance, all provide an invaluable background to understanding the way Canada works today and its direction in years to come.
