THE RETURN OF THE TROJAN HORSE
ContributorsJulie Black coordinates a Calgary domestic violence coalition while also working as a freelance writer. As a community volunteer, she has worked extensively with women's rights and anti-racism groups for over twenty years. Julie has a degree in English literature from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
Laura Bonnett is completing her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Alberta on the history of the gay and lesbian movement in Alberta. Laura currently lives in Ottawa, Ontario and works for the Government of Canada as a policy analyst.
Keith Brownsey is a Political Scientist at Mount Royal College, co-editor of both Provincial State in Canada: Politics in the Provinces and Territories (2001) and Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Government in Canada's Provinces (2005). He has written extensively on Alberta's/ Canada's oil and gas industry and is one of Alberta's most renowned commentators on political affairs.
Jim Byrne is a Professor of Geography at the University of Lethbridge. He leads an ongoing research program investigating the impacts of climate change on water resources in western North America. He served as project leader for the microbial ecology program, Oldman River Basin, Alberta, and as National Theme Leader in Water Resources Management with the Canadian Water Network, 2000-04. He was co-producer and project leader for the GLOBAL CHANGE: ACCESS TV series; and Project Leader of the Nat Christie Climate and Agriculture Research Program, 1992-96.
Greg Flanagan is Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Management at the University of Lethbridge. Trained as a public finance economist, he has taught or served for over twenty-five years at a number of Alberta's post-secondary institutions. He has numerous publications dealing with public policy issues to his name.
Tom Fuller has worked as a researcher and policy analyst for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and the Alberta Federation of Labour. It was during his tenure at the AFL that most of his work on this chapter was done. Tom is currently employed as a Labour Relations Officer by the United Nurses of Alberta. He has a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Alberta.
Lois Harder is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on social policy, with recent publications concerning social reforms in Canada and the U.S., and particularly the use of the tax system to deliver social policy. Recent work on Alberta politics includes State of Struggle: Feminism and Politics in Alberta (2003), a chapter on equality and women's political identity in Alberta's Constitutional History (2005), and media commentary on provincial politics.
Trevor Harrison is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge and former Research Director of Parkland Institute. He is author, co-author, or co-editor of five books on Canadian society and politics, including The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada (1995), Requiem for a Lightweight: Stockwell Day and Image Politics, and is a frequent public commentator on political events in the province and nationally.
Tammy Horne is an independent community-based research and consultant in Edmonton and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Centre for Health Promotion Studies at the University of Alberta. She was co-author of Parkland Institute's 2002 report, Reclaiming Medicare: A Response to the Mazankowski Misdiagnosis. Dr. Horne also co-authored The Differential Impact of Health Care Privatization on Women in Alberta (2000), for the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence. She has a Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo, and a lifelong interest in health issues.
Patricia Hughes-Fuller is an Assistant Professor in Athabasca University's M.A.-Integrated Studies Programme where she has instructed since 2001. Prior to completing her graduate degrees, she spent eleven years as a postal worker and union activist. Her research interests include cultural studies, adult and labour education, literary theory, and social theory.
William Johnston is Professor and currently an Associate Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He obtained his doctorate in sociology from York University in 1981. After a SSHRC Post Doctoral award he took up a position at University of Western Ontario before coming to the University of Alberta in 1991. A political sociologist specializing in ideology, class structures, and political movements, Dr. Johnson has published in numerous academic journals and co-authored Parkland Institute's 2003 study, Trouble in Paradise? Citizens' Views of Democracy in Alberta.
Harvey Krahn is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. His research and teaching interests are in the sociology of work and education, immigration studies, public policy, political sociology, and public opinion. Widely published, Dr. Krahn also co-authored Parkland Institute's 2003 study, Trouble in Paradise? Citizens' Views of Democracy in Alberta.
Jean Lafrance is an Associate Professor with the University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work. He teaches in the areas of Social Policy, Community Practice, and Casework Methods, and also heads the Edmonton and Access Divisions. Before entering academe, Dr. LaFrance had an extensive thirty-three-year career in social services, capped as Children's Advocate for the Province of Alberta.
Gordon Laird is an award-winning Calgary writer and author of POWER: Journeys Across an Energy Nation (2002). He is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail, CBC radio and television, Canadian Geographic, and THIS Magazine. He is also the 2003-2004 Media Fellow at the Sheldon Chumir Foundation (www.gordonlaird.com).
Ken Larsen grew up on a mixed farming operation in central Alberta and has been a full time grain farmer since 1976 with a long history of involvement around transportation issues. Holder of a B.A. from the University of Alberta, Ken is a regular writer in the farm press, a presenter of briefs, and from time to time a panelist or commentator on CBC radio in Alberta. He has served on numerous boards and committees from the local to the provincial level.
Diane Wishart Leard is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. Her doctoral research seeks greater understanding of an alternative school program for former early school leavers in Edmonton's inner city, through dialogue with youth and teachers. Research interests include educational reform and its relationship to youth labeled "at-risk," critical pedagogy, and the impacts of poverty on academic achievement.
Julie Lloyd is a lawyer in Edmonton and has been an advocate for the queer community for several years. She also teaches human rights at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law.
Shannon Sampert specializes in media and politics, and is well known as a communications consultant. Before entering academe, she enjoyed a career in both the print and electronic media as a reporter, producer and writer. She has recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg.
Lynette Shultz has extensive experience as a teacher and school administrator in Alberta. She is now at the University of Alberta where her teaching and research in education policy studies focuses on education as a tool for social change and the organization of education in local and international contexts.
Dennis Soron received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. Formerly a researcher with the Neoliberal Globalism and its Challengers Project, and co-ordinating editor of the Parkland Post, Dr. Soron recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brock University.
Yvonne Stanford is a social worker and mediator in private practice. She is a long time community activist and organizer in areas of human rights, diversity, peace and conflict resolution, anti-racism, and social justice. She has worked with organizations and coalitions such as the Coalition on Human Rights in Alberta, Common Front, Committee on Racism and Cross-Cultural Understanding, YWCA, Canadian Mental Health Association, Voice of Women, Women's Centre of Calgary, Canadian Peace Alliance, Coalition for Equal Access to Education, and the Dignity Foundation.
Gillian Steward is a Calgary-based author and journalist and a visiting professor at the University of Regina's School of Journalism. She has been covering Alberta politics since the 1970s and in 2000 co-authored (with Kevin Taft) Clear Answers: The Economics and Politics of For-Profit Medicine.
Alison Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of The Politics of Educational Reform in Alberta (2001) and has written several academic articles on the topics of educational reform, school choice, and school-to-work transition.
Brian Titley is Professor of Education at the University of Lethbridge. He is the author of Church, State, and the Control of Schooling in Ireland, 1900-1944 (1983), A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada (1986), Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa (1997) and The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney (1999). He has served as President of the Canadian History of Education Association (1990-92) and as President (1999-2000) and Grievance Officer (2001-2005) of the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association.
Linda Trimble is Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Alberta. Professor Trimble is co-editor of two edited collections on women and political representation in Canada, and an edited volume on the changing nature of Canadian politics in the 21st Century. She is also co-author of a book on the topic of women's political representation across Canada and has published numerous articles and book chapters exploring such topics as feminism, the politics of gender, media representations of women politicians, federalism and the constitution, and women's political representation in Canada.
Ian Urquhart is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Alberta where he studies natural resources and environmental issues. He is the author of Making it Work: Kyoto, Trade, and Politics (2002), produced for the Parkland Institute and is currently studying the politics of North American frontier gas projects.