(“Should Canada Approve Lab-Grown Meat?”) is a James Beard Award-winning investigative journalist and the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The immigrants taking on America’s largest meatpacking company (One Signal Publishers, 2024).

Conor Kerr

(review of Black Bear,) is a Métis/Ukrainian author in Edmonton. In 2024 his novel Prairie Edge was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. He’s also a bird hunter and teaches creative writing and Indigenous literature at the University of Alberta.

Cailynn Klingbeil

(“Home at Last,”) has published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Business and Report on Business and with the CBC. She has also taught journalism at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Bonnie Larson

(review of Changing Care,) is a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Calgary. Her “The Orange Tent” for Alberta Views (Mar 2021) won a silver National Magazine Award.

Patrick Lennox

(“Shakedown Federalism,”) is an international relations scholar and former international security practitioner with the RCMP and the Treasury Board Secretariat.

Yadira Tejeda-Saldana

(“Should Canada Approve Lab- Grown Meat?”) is director of research and innovation, Canada, at New Harvest, which has a vision “of a world where animals need not be farmed for food.” She has a Ph.D. in microbiological food safety research.