October Issue
View of Alberta
Edmonton Federal Building
Jeff Day, July 2026.
Book Reviews
No I in Team
by Alex Marland, Jared J. Wesley and Mireille Lalancette
reviewed by Lori Williams
Music of the Earth’s Heartbeat
by Jared Tailfeathers,
reviewed by Kevin Van Tighem
Songs From This and That Country
by Gail Sidonie Šobat,
reviewed by Agniezka Matejko
Talk Treaty to Me
by Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnisky,
reviewed by Corey Snelgrove
Inheritance
by Jane Park,
reviewed by Jillian Bell
Crossing into Canada
edited by Alison Mounttz,
reviewed by Benjamin Hertwig
Briefly Noted Comics
Grande Prairie with an E
by Stefan Jun,
Ready, Cassette, Go!
by Jarrett Sitter
both reviewed by Quin Lancaster
Columns
Eye on Alberta
Orpheum
by A.V. Wakefield, Blairmore, 2018.
Contributors
(“The Separatist Echo Chamber,”) is a political science professor at Mount Royal University specializing in Alberta politics. He co-edited Blue Storm: The Rise and Fall of Jason Kenney.
(“Should Alberta Have More Immigration?”) is deputy director, domestic policy, at the Macdonald–Laurier Institute, and a former adviser to the Ontario government.
(Cartoon/ illustration for “A Violation of Norms,”), as a contributor to many papers, has over a million readers a day—the most-read editorial cartoonist in Canada. A Member of the Order of Canada, he lives in Halifax.
(review of Songs From This and That Country,) is an Edmonton writer and artist. Her installations include “Word on the Street,” where poetry by inner-city residents was sandblasted onto sidewalks in the McCauley neighbourhood.
(“Should Alberta Have More Immigration?”) is an Edmonton lawyer and University of Alberta sessional law instructor who helped create the group Our Alberta Advantage.
(review of No I in Team,) is a political science professor at Mount Royal University and a frequent commentator on Alberta politics.
(“The Fifth Column”) is a former school superintendent, management consultant and vice- chair of Vancouver’s trade board.
