Ricardo Acuña | Executive Director of the Parkland Institute
Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute.
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Speakers and guests
Elisabeth Ballermann | President of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta
Elisabeth has an extensive background inside and outside HSAA. She has been president of Health Sciences since 1995, becoming the first president elected by the membership.
Read more »Peter Faid |
Peter Faid is a social policy consultant in the Edmonton community with a particular interest in poverty issues and the non-profit sector.
Read more »Greg Flanagan | Public Finance Economist
Greg Flanagan is a public finance economist with a BA (Calgary), MES (York), and MA (UBC)
Read more »Diana Gibson | Research Director of the Parkland Institute
Diana Gibson is the Research Director for the Parkland Institute. She has an extensive background in social and fiscal policy research and has engaged nationally and internationally on topics ranging from health care and energy, to the environment and international trade agreements.
Read more »Trevor Harrison | University of Lethbridge
Trevor Harrison is currently an associate professor at the University of Lethbridge. He is the editor of The Return of the Trojan Horse, an anthology of reportage and essays that re-examine Klein's Alberta after a decade of deficit-slashing, tax-cutting conservatism. He is also the author of Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada and Requiem for a Lightweight: Stockwell Day and Image Politics.
Read more »Gordon Laird |
Named “one of the best and best-informed minds in the world” by The Globe and Mail, Gordon Laird has won several National Magazine Awards, including top honors for investigative reporting.
Read more »Gordon Laxer | Director of the Parkland Institute
Gordon Laxer is a professor of political economy, director of the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta and author of a forthcoming book, Freezing in the Dark: Oil Independence for Canada.
Read more »Gil McGowan | President of the Alberta Federation of Labour
Gil McGowan was elected President of the Alberta Federation of Labour in 2005, following 10 years working as Communications Director for the AFL.
Read more »Shannon Phillips |
Shannon Phillips is a Lethbridge-based journalist, researcher, and communications consultant, and a Parkland Institute Research Associate.
Read more »Blair Redlin | Canadian Union of Public Employees
Blair Redlin is a Research Representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), based in Burnaby.
Read more »Guy Smith | Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Currently President of Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Read more »Heather Smith | United Nurses of Alberta
Heather Smith is the provincial President of the United Nurses of Alberta
Read more »Gillian Steward | author and journalist
Gillian Steward is a Calgary author and journalist. She currently writes a regular column for the Toronto Star and teaches journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
Read more »Asbjorn Wahl | Norwegian labour leader and coordinator
Asbjørn Wahl is Adviser at the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees and director of the broad Campaign for the Welfare State.
Read more »Erin Weir | United Steelworkers union’s Canadian National Office
Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union’s Canadian National Office.
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