November Issue
View of Alberta
Rundle Ruins
Lisa Redfern, 2009. Site of Calgary’s second general hospital, built in 1899.
Book Reviews
My Mother Joins the Resistance
by Richard Harrison
reviewed by Angie Abdou
See-Me Street: My Homeless Indigenous Journey
by DerRic Starlight,
reviewed by Justin Bell
Please Don’t Interrupt
edited by Rona Altrows and Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike,
reviewed by Catherine Owen
Safarnameh: A Traveller’s Journey Along the Hippie Trail
by Trevor W. Harrison,
reviewed by Agnieszka Matejko
Saudade
by Thomas Trofimuk,
reviewed by Jane Kubke
Columns
Eye on Alberta
A Soldier’s Story
by James Tworow, Calgary, 2015.
Contributors
(review of My Mother Joins the Resistance,) is a professor of creative writing at Athabasca University. She is the author of seven books, most recently This One Wild Life (ECW).
(“Where and When You Need It,”) is a general internal medicine physician and researcher. He co-directs the Migration and Humanitarian Health Collective at the University of Calgary.
(“Nobody Was Saying ‘Blow It All Up’,”) received the 2022 Landsberg Award for her work on gender injustice. Her writing has won four National Magazine Awards.
(illustration for “Where and When You Need It,”) is a Calgary-based illustrator who focuses on editorial and public art. Her clients include The New York Times and Canadian Geographic.
(“The $100 Barrier,”) was Athabasca University’s 2025–26 writer in residence. Her books include Tiny Lights for Travellers, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
(“Is Alberta Better Off in Canada?”) is a fifth-generation Albertan and president of Renew Alberta. He holds a Ph.D. in theology and is principal of Milvian Strategies.
(“Is Alberta Better Off in Canada?”) is a political science professor at the University of Alberta, lead researcher for the Common Ground initiative and co-author of No I in Team: Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics (UTP).
