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Print Media

• Calgary council rookies show up veterans in attendance, Calgary Herald, May 4, 2010
• Calgary university students face expulsion for provocative anti-abortion display, Toronto Star, April 27, 2010
• Protecting free speech: Wildrose style, Gauntlet, November 26, 2009
• New election spending rules miss mark, Edmonton Journal, November 18, 2009
• Police hope video footage identifies person responsible for anti-Semitic messages, Metro News, November 16, 2009
• AB human rights "kangaroo court" a threat to small newspapers like SECN, South East Calgary News, October 30, 2009

Dashed Dreams report release, September 15, 2009

• Meltdown rips heavy toll from Calgarians, Calgary Sun, September 15, 2009
• Politicians haven't learned from bust: Calgarians, Calgary Herald, September 15, 2009

General media

• Calgary West MP Anders under fire from Muslim group over political pamphlet, Calgary Herald, Sept. 9, 2009
• Attractive servers send negative message — resident, St. Albert Gazette, July 25, 2009

Health care code of conduct and freedom of expression

• Province hits health workers with conduct code, FFWD, July 17, 2009
• Code de conduite: Éviter de critiquer le système de santé, Radio-Canada, July 14, 2009

• Best and worst of Alberta politics, FFWD, June 11, 2009
• Amendments to Bill 44 worsen a bad Bill, ABlawg.ca, May 29, 2009
• The fantastic folly of Bill 44, Gauntlet, May 28, 2009
• Rights reform trips up Alberta, National Post, May 27, 2009 
• Alberta Tories altering rights clause; draw calls for more change, Calgary Herald, May 26, 2009
• Change to provincial human rights act stirs criticism, Gauntlet, May 14, 2009
• God, gays and government, FFWD, May 14, 2009
• The Pandora's box of parental rights, SEE, May 14, 2009
• MLAs rally to defend Bill 44, Leduc County Market, May 13, 2009
• Former government members say Alberta's human rights code changes are embarrassing, Metro News, May 12, 2009
• Alberta's rights revision flawed, says Chumir Foundation, Calgary Herald, May 11, 2009
• Rewriting the rules on human rights, Edmonton Journal, May 10, 2009
• Human rights advocates hold high hopes for new appointee, Edmonton Journal, May 10, 2009
• Rights bungling wins Stelmach no friends, Calgary Herald, May 9, 2009
• Human rights bill a hit and a miss, Lethbridge Herald, May 9, 2009
• Rights bill needs repair work, Edmonton Journal, May 8, 2009
• Alberta education groups unite to oppose Bill 44, Edmonton Journal, May 6, 2009
• Teachers' union fears 'unwieldy' human rights bill, Edmonton Journal, May 6, 2009
• Kevin Libin: Ed Stelmach, up to his knees in turd, National Post, May 6, 2009
• Rights proposal confusing charade, Calgary Sun, May 6, 2009
• Proposed amendments to Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act off the mark, ABlawg.ca, May 6, 2009
• Opponents step up attacks on human rights bill, Calgary Herald, May 6, 2009
• Top teacher told rights fracas much ado about nothing.  Then why do it?, Calgary Sun, May 5, 2009
• Controversial education legislation draws further protests, Metro News, May 5, 2009
• Proposed Alberta Law doesn't make evolution classes optional: minister, CBC.ca, May 4, 2009
• Top teacher schools province, Calgary Sun, May 3, 2009
• Teachers, experts fear chill in classroom if Alberta legislation goes ahead, Macleans.ca, May 3, 2009
• Un projet de loi albertain qui inquiete, Cyberpresse.ca, May 3, 2009
• Rights think-tank sees needless confusion in law, Edmonton Journal, May 2, 2009
• Group pans proposed human rights changes, Edmonton Sun, May 2, 2009
• Freedom Fettered, Calgary Herald, May 1, 2009
• What a mess, response to "Freedom Fettered," Calgary Herald, May 11, 2009
• Another puzzling Tory tactic, Edmonton Sun, May 1, 2009
• Tories are quick to clear up any monkey business down at the legislature but fog around new law that lets parents pull kids from class is still thick, Calgary Sun, May 1, 2009
• Bill 44 puts Alberta 'back into the middle ages': former Tory MLA, FFWD, May 1, 2009
• Evolution classes optional under proposed Alberta law, CBC.ca, April 30, 2009
• Giving parents right to opt-out kids from classes opens can of worms, Calgary Sun, April 30, 3009
• 'Rights' appoach all wrong, Calgary Sun, April 30, 2009
• Alberta Tories move to enshrine gay rights, Calgary Herald, April 29, 2009
• Bill 44: Alberta government's human rights amendments spark religious controversy, but leave free speech untouched, Canadian Centre for Constitutional Studies, April 29, 2009
• Changes coming to Alberta human rights?, Canadian Centre for Constitutional Studies, April 17, 2009
• Alberta's law to embrace gay rights, Edmonton Journal, March 27, 2009
• Calgary MLA urges Alberta to enshrine human rights for gays, Calgary Herald, March 27, 2009
• Alberta Tories gear up for human rights code overhaul, Calgary Herald, March 18, 2009
• Long-awaited rights reforms on the way, Calgary Herald, March 2, 2009

Report calling for human rights amendments released by Sheldon Chumir Foundation, Jan. 29, 2009 

• Rewind to 1972, National Post, Feb. 20, 2009
• Alberta cabmin: HRC acting like "kangaroo court", ezralevant.com, Feb. 17, 2009
• Alberta minister wants our human rights commission to get back to fighting for real freedoms, Calgary Sun, Feb. 17, 2009
• Momentum for reform, ezralevant.com, Feb. 16, 2009
• New Alberta human rights chief commissioner to work to add "sexual orientation" to legislation, lifesitenews.com, Feb. 6, 2009
• Alberta Human Rights Commission needs changes, report says, Sherwood Park News, Feb. 6, 2009
• New chief has big plans for rights commission, Edmonton Journal, Feb. 5, 2009
• Alberta judge chosen to lead province's human rights commission, Edmonton Journal, Feb. 5
• Former judge tapped as Alberta's new human rights czar, Calgary Herald, Feb. 5, 2009
• Alberta judge chosen to lead province's human rights commission, Calgary Herald, Feb 4, 2009
• Rights shouldn't be fuzzy, Sherwood Park News, Feb. 3, 2009
• Alberta Human Rights Commission hampered by underfunding - report, Edmonton Journal, Jan. 30, 2009
• Commission can't protect human rights, report says, Calgary Herald, Jan. 30, 2009
• Group wants Alberta to stop dealing with hatred human rights complaints, Red Deer Advocate, Jan. 30, 2009
• Changes proposed for human rights commission, SEE, Jan. 29, 2009
• How to fix human rights in Alberta, FFWD, Jan. 29, 2009

The Right Call business ethics interviews with Janet Keeping

• By any name, it smells foul, Alberta Venture, June 28, 2010
• The working at home debate, Alberta Venture, May, 1, 2010
• The enemy within, Alberta Venture, March 1, 2010
• When partners cheat, Alberta Venture, January 1, 2010
• Money for nothing, Alberta Venture, December 1, 2009
• Fairly Accommodating, Alberta Venture, October 1, 2009
• An ounce of flesh, Alberta Venture, August 1, 2009
• Business's big black eye, Alberta Venture, July 1, 2009
• It's the women, stupid!, Alberta Venture, June 1, 2009 
• Taxes and duties, Alberta Venture, May 1, 2009
• Ethical downsizing, Alberta Venture, April 1, 2009
• Policing the playground, Alberta Venture, March 1, 2009
• You want to pray where?, Alberta Venture, Feb. 1, 2009
• Truthiness in advertising, Alberta Venture, Jan. 1, 2009
• Marketing masquerades as charity, Alberta Venture, Dec. 1, 2008
• Dial F for fraud, Alberta Venture, Nov. 1, 2008
• The lure of the green, Alberta Venture, Oct. 1, 2008
• Ethical offshoring, Alberta Venture, Sept. 1, 2008
• The social-environmental contract, Alberta Venture, Aug. 1, 2008
• The Timbit conundrum, Alberta Venture, July 1, 2008
• The ethics of executive pay, Alberta Venture, June 1, 2008
• Odd man out, Alberta Venture, April 27, 2008
• The limits of surveillance, Alberta Venture, April 2, 2008 with Ron Ghitter 

"The media's right to offend: Exploring legal and ethical limits on free speech," Halifax, Nov. 1, 2008

• Riding the censorship highway to utopia, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Nov. 4, 2008
• Media beware, the offended just might yell back, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Nov. 4, 2008
• Freedom not a "get out of jail free" card, J-Source.ca, Nov. 3, 2008
• Halifax conference on the media's "right to offend", ezralevant.com, November 3, 2008
• Threat of prosecution hampers free speech, columnist tells forum, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Nov. 2, 2008
• Joseph Howe Symposium: Overview and Halifax Free Speech Debates, Nov. 2, 2008
• Live blogging "The Media's Right to Offend: Exploring the Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech", J-Source.ca, Nov. 1, 2008
• Experts debate media's freedom to offend Saturday at King's, The Commoner, Oct. 31, 2008
• Free speech isn't free, Metro News, Oct. 29, 2008

Shelter: Homelessness in a Growth Economy - report released June 26, 2007

• Spending billions of dollars on homelessness has yielded little benefit, author says, Edmonton Journal, February 23, 2008
• Homeless champion makes waves, Toronto Star, July 9, 2007
• Homeless press for changes, Edmonton Journal, June 28, 2007
• Warehousing not homelessness solution, FFWD, June 28, 2007
• Housing too expensive: report, Regina Leader-Post, June 27, 2007
• Report urges long-term plan for homeless, Calgary Herald, June 27, 2007
• Calgary has 3rd-highest shelter population in Canada, CBC.ca, June 26, 2007
• Homelessness 'chronic' in Canada: study, CBC.ca, June 26, 2007

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