Shannon Stunden Bower is the research director at the Parkland Institute, a public policy research network affiliated with the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining the Parkland Institute, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.
Stunden Bower has a background in social and environment justice issues, and is the author of numerous reports and articles dealing with historical, geographical, and public policy issues. Her first book, Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba (UBC Press, 2011), was awarded the Clio Prize in the Prairie Provinces by the Canadian Historical Association and the K.D. Srivastava Award by UBC Press.
by Shannon Stunden Bower
In budget 2013, Alison Redford’s Progressive Conservatives promised once-in-a-generation change. People across Alberta and Canada watched with interest, anticipating that this might at last be the moment when an Alberta premier finally moved to right the serious problem with the province’s fiscal situation.
