(“Wildies or Invaders?”) is a writer, photographer and filmmaker. She started at the Yorkton News Review and later co-hosted Access Television’s Talk of the Town.

Pamela Banting

(review of Buffalo Lessons,) is an English professor at the University of Calgary whose research focuses on environmental literature, nature writing, ecocriticism and petrocultural studies.

Karly Coleman

(Dialogue: “Should cities build more bike lanes?”) is a cyclist and cycling researcher and educator, as well as Edmonton’s only bike traffic reporter.

Doug Firby

(“Creating a Buzz,”) has more than four decades of experience in media, including as editorial page editor at the Calgary Herald. He’s now president of Troy Media. His Substack is Doug Firby Unfiltered.

Sid Marty

(review of Cartographic Poetry,) is an author whose Oldman’s River (NeWest) won the Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize in 2024.

Adrienne Mason

(“Wildfire in the Bow Valley,”) is a former Jasper National Park interpreter and now full-time science writer and editor living in Tofino. She is the author of Long Beach Wild (Greystone, 2012).

Kayode Southwood

(Dialogue: “Should cities build more bike lanes?”) is a senior policy analyst at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, where he leads advocacy for policy in support of small and medium-sized enterprises.