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I N C A LGA RY TODAY?

WILL FUTURE HISTORIANS LOOK BACK

ON CALGARY TODAY AS A RENAISSANCE
PERIOD?

“Talk to the Text” using supporting resources

Use this document to supplement
insights and knowledge gained from
interviews with your expert to
further consider the question:
When historians look back on Calgary
today, will they see this as a dark age,
the beginning of a Renaissance, or a
Renaissance period?
To do this, use the links under your hand in your notes demonstrating
specific topic area to help expand that you can “talk to the text.” Use
your research. At the top of the the “Talking to the Text” poster to
page are a series of links that will be guide you in the process.
helpful in generating ideas as to how
we could foster a renaissance in our
city. We encourage you to find your
own articles as part of your
research. Choosing two articles,

SUMMARIZE MAIN IDEAS MAKE CONNECTIONS GENERATE QUESTIONS

 Ideas for fostering creativity
and innovation:

Where do good ideas come from? Steve

Johnson

The surprising truth about what motivates us

Dan Pink

Artistic Activity:
1. Calgary medici: Will a boom in arts-giving
turn the city into a cultural mecca?
A RT
(NICHOLAS KöHLER | January 9, 2008)

2. Rodeo puts focus on arts (Kelly Doody,

Calgary Herald, January 16, 2011) Do we see a dynamic
outpouring of artistic activity
3. Calgary’s Vital Signs 2010 Report (The in Calgary today?
Calgary Foundation, 2011)

Do we see innovative
"If you're going to live in Calgary, approaches and techniques to
what is the fabric of your daily art similar to the
existence? Is it an interesting place breakthroughs that occurred
that is stimulating and vibrant — during the Renaissance?
or is it a place that isn't?"

Science:
Medical Research:
1. Research must flourish (Carl Amrhein,
Calgary Herald, January 24, 2011) 

2. Supporting research (Tai Y. Leung, Calgary

SCIENCE
Herald, January 21, 2011)
3. Lab on a Chip (Jennifer Sowa, UTODAY,
Is Calgary becoming a place of
January 21, 2011)
innovation in scientific
research?
General:
1. Quantum quirk contained: (University of
Are we seeing major scientific
Calgary)
breakthroughs in Calgary
2. Periodic table revamp, (University of today?
Calgary)
3. Funding for new projects, (University of
Calgary)
4. Permian Extinction (Leanne Yohemas,
UTODAY, January 24, 2011)
Communication:
1. How Nenshi won the election, Calgary COMMUNIC ATION
Hearld, October 2010
2. Date with a revolution, New York
Times, January 2011 Will new digital
3. Webtools and change, New York Times, communication and social
January 2011 networking technologies lead
to an upending of the old
4. Newspapers and Thinking the order?
Unthinkable [3.17.08] (Clay Shirky)
5. Wiki Leaks: Implications of wiki Will the ability to share
knowledge and ideas lead to
leaks (Mark Feldstein, American
an explosion of innovation
Journalism)
and creativity?
6. Wiki Leaks Projects, informational
video from the Wikileaks “inventors”

Trade and Commerce:

You may want to find your own article,
but the following articles will provide a TRADE AND
good start.
COMMERCE
1. Calgary’s South Bow Tower, Calgary
Herald, Jan. 2011
2. Website from the Calgary Chamber of DOES CALGARY POSSES A
Commerce about a Renaissance in GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE, DIVERSE
Calgary movement (read the blueprint MANUFACTURING SECTOR?
especially)
WILL AN EXPANSION IN TRADE
3. Calgary office vacancy on the rise, AND COMMERCE LEAD TO GREAT
Calgary Herald, Jan. 2011 WEALTH FOR THE CITY?

4. An article by John Ralston Saul, Calgary

Herald, 2008
5. Website for Calgary Economic
Development

Technology:
TECHNOLOGY
Military:
The following article explores the realities
of war in the modern era and how
Canada is uniquely suited to respond to
this reality. HOW CAN WE EQUIP OUR ARMIES
“A New Era of Irregular TO DEAL WITH THE REALITIES OF
Warfare?” (John Ralston Saul, February
MODERN, IRREGULAR WARFARE?
2004)
WHAT DOES INNOVATION LOOK
Innovation: LIKE TODAY?
1. Collection of articles about innovation,
Alberta Heritage Community Foundation DOES CALGARY POSSESS THE
SUPPORT TO BE A
2. Funding for new projects, (University of
TECHNOLOGICAL CITY?
Calgary, 2011)
Humanism and Education:
Not all these relate specifically to Calgary, but
they should be helpful.
HUMANISM/
1. Support sought for Calgary Boys’ School,
E D U C AT I O N
Calgary Herald, January 2011
2. Online homework help, edutopia, 2010
3. An article by John Ralston Saul, Calgary
Herald, 2008 HAS THE FACTORY MODEL OF
SCHOOLING EXHAUSTED ITSELF
4. Central Library article, Calgary Herald, TO THE POINT WHERE WE WILL
December 2010 SEE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN
EDUCATION?
5. Changing Educational Paradigms, Sir Ken
Robinson

City Planning

1. Calgary’s South Bow Tower, Calgary Herald, U R B A N L IF E /CIT Y

Jan. 2011 PLANNING
2. C-train’s future, Calgary Herald, January 2011
3. Central Library article, Calgary Herald,
December 2010
4. Recreation centres, Calgary Herald, Jan. 2011
5. Collection of articles on the possible future of
urban Calgary, Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011
6. Website from the Calgary Chamber of
Commerce about a Renaissance in Calgary
(read the “blueprint” especially)

Religion:
You may want to find your own article, but the
following articles will provide a good start. RELIGION
1. From Religion to Secularization, Globe and
Mail 5-part series, December 2010
WHAT IS THE STATE OF RELIGION
2. New era, new god, says Paul Saffo (The IN CALGARY NOW?
Economist, Nov. 2010)
ARE THE TIMES RIPE FOR A NEW
3. Canadian Primal: Five poet thinkers redefine RELIGION OR A SHIFT IN
our relationship to nature (Mark Dickinson, June SPIRITUALITY?
2009, Walrus Magazine)