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Sheila Pratt
Sheila Pratt started as a rookie reporter during Alberta's first boom in the late 1970s and has been analysing and commenting on the changing political and social landscape ever since, as a writer and editor. A graduate of Queen's University, Pratt covered the provincial legislature in the Lougheed and Getty years. Her work included national and provincial television and radio commentary. Pratt is also co-author of a book Running On Empty, Alberta After the Boom (that's the first boom). In 2001, Pratt won the Southam Journalism Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She is currently an editorial writer and Sunday columnist at the Edmonton Journal. Did Martha and Henry ever talk out loud? Dissecting the political narrative of the Klein revolution and it's impact today. The Klein revolution created the story that Albertans are one big family, all in this together and all in agreement about where we're going. No room for whiners in this family and no room for dissenting views. It's a political narrative that helped stifle dissent, eroded democractic debate and left the Tories more firmly in control. Ed Stelmach is writing the next chapter.
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