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Article: A modest proposal?: diversity and the challenge of governance in northern Alberta.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
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- Northern Review
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- June 22, 2005
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"It's very interesting to see the disposable camera pictures of Chukotka in Russia and from northern Alberta because it looks like exactly the same landscape, and in some ways it is. The peoples are also the same in many ways. And we also have the sleds, the dogs--all of this are shared [sic]. It's life" at its northern limits."
--Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, 5 March 2000.
As a novice to Northern Studies, I am struck by how often people speak of the North in terms of similarities and shared experiences. The drive from Edmonton to Fairbanks, for example, confirms at least some of the Governor General's sentiments. As you head north, it is often ...