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Posted: Feb 08, 2021 10:54 AM MT | Last Updated: February 8
Construction equipment is seen near Crowsnest Pass in the photo at left; Energy Minister Sonya Savage, seen at right, said Monday that details of a consultation process regarding Alberta s 1976 coal policy will be announced in the weeks ahead. (CBC, Amber Bracken/The Canadian Press)
The Alberta government says powerful public protest persuaded it to reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains for almost 45 years.
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One of many formerly enslaved Black people who left the U.S. to make the Prairies home, John Ware was one of Alberta s most influential cattle ranchers at the turn of the 19th century. Laila El Mugammar Updated
Rodeo champion Fred Whitfield as John Ware. (Photo: Shaun Robinson)
The early settlements of Western Canada I constructed in my imagination have always been white. In history textbooks, the pioneers cattle ranching and churning butter were always illustrated as white people, homesteading a vast, seemingly endless expanse of violently emptied frontier land. I had an idea of why that might be: two years ago, at the Halifax branch of Library and Archives Canada, I examined a letter from an African-American sharecropper to a white minister. Expressing that he was no longer interested in settling in Western Canada, the sharecropper thanked the minister for alerting him that