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Inflation Phobia

Don’t worry. Worrying makes it worse.

Feature

Evidence of Habitation

Photo essay by Pieter de Vos.

Feature

Edmonton to Calgary in an Hour

How to make an Alberta high-speed train a reality.

On the Ledge

Playing with Fire

Kenney reneges on recall legislation.

Feature

A Portentous Change

Alberta’s 2021 municipal elections were a repudiation of the UCP.

This Land

Environmental Glossary

Secret memo to new UCP candidates.

Feature

Edmonton to Calgary in an Hour

How to make an Alberta high-speed train a reality.

On the Ledge

Playing with Fire

Kenney reneges on recall legislation.

Feature

A Portentous Change

Alberta’s 2021 municipal elections were a repudiation of the UCP.

This Land

Environmental Glossary

Secret memo to new UCP candidates.

Context

Context

Wild Rose Bullet

By Benjamin Freeland

In Cities, Infrastructure

Posted April 1, 2010

Wild Rose Bullet

If Sir William Cornelius Van Horne were alive today, he’d surely be first in line to weigh in on the notion of a Calgary/Edmonton high-speed rail link. Haughty, wealthy and totally uncompromising [...]

Amarjeet Sohi

By Omar Mouallem

In Government, Politics

Posted January 4, 2017

Amarjeet Sohi

On a Friday morning in spring 2016, Amarjeet Sohi sat barefoot in the den of his craftsman style home in south Edmonton. His first few months as Canada’s federal minister of infrastructure had [...]

Don’t Panic

By Alex Himelfarb

In Energy / Economy

Posted December 1, 2020

Don’t Panic

COVID-19, this microscopic bug, seems to have upended just about everything. History provides no perfect analogy for what has turned out to be a global health, social and economic catastrophe. [...]

View of Alberta

Southern Alberta, by Steve Kuno, 2018.

Contributors

D.T. Cochrane

D.T. Cochrane (Should Alberta Have Toll Roads?) is an economic researcher and analyst with Canadians for Tax Fairness.

Pieter de Vos

Pieter de Vos (Evidence of Habitation) is an Edmonton-based documentary photographer.

Alex Himelfarb

Alex Himelfarb (Inflation Phobia) was Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet under three prime ministers.

Enid Slack

Enid Slack (Should Alberta Have Toll Roads?) is director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (U of T).

View of Alberta

Southern Alberta, by Steve Kuno, 2018.

Contributors

D.T. Cochrane

D.T. Cochrane (Should Alberta Have Toll Roads?) is an economic researcher and analyst with Canadians for Tax Fairness.

Pieter de Vos

Pieter de Vos (Evidence of Habitation) is an Edmonton-based documentary photographer.

Alex Himelfarb

Alex Himelfarb (Inflation Phobia) was Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet under three prime ministers.

Enid Slack

Enid Slack (Should Alberta Have Toll Roads?) is director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (U of T).

Most Read

Most Read

Should Post-Secondary Education be Free?

Hugh Mackenzie The economist and research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says yes. Free tuition would redress a massive ...

Cities, Infrastructure, Transit

Edmonton to Calgary in an Hour

Either way, the three-hour drive between Edmonton and Calgary on the QEII highway has the same itinerary: nice landscape, cows, trees, pumpjack ...

Not a White-Bread Childhood

Toronto freelance portrait photographer Markian Lozowchuk (disclosure: his mother and I are second cousins) has photographed Justin Trudeau for Toronto ...

Featured Image

High Pink by Barbara Ballachey

2017. Acrylic on canvas. 14″ X 18″. Edge Gallery, Canmore.

Book Reviews

The Party is Here

by Georgina Beaty,
reviewed by Candas Jane Dorsey

A Selected History of Soul Speak

by Andrea Thompson,
reviewed by Bertrand Bickersteth

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey’s Agents of Change

edited by Cheryl A. MacDonald and Jonathon R.J. Edwards,
reviewed by Bruce Cinnamon

The Broken Places

by Frances Peck,
reviewed by Andrew Guilbert

No Harm Done: Three Plays About Medical Conditions

by Eugene Stickland,
reviewed by Alex Rettie

Firebird

by Glen Huser,
reviewed by Agnieszka Matejko

Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit, Second Edition

by Christof Spieler,
reviewed by Evan Osenton

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Featured Image

High Pink by Barbara Ballachey

2017. Acrylic on canvas. 14″ X 18″. Edge Gallery, Canmore.

Book Reviews

The Party is Here

by Georgina Beaty,
reviewed by Candas Jane Dorsey

A Selected History of Soul Speak

by Andrea Thompson,
reviewed by Bertrand Bickersteth

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey’s Agents of Change

edited by Cheryl A. MacDonald and Jonathon R.J. Edwards,
reviewed by Bruce Cinnamon

The Broken Places

by Frances Peck,
reviewed by Andrew Guilbert

No Harm Done: Three Plays About Medical Conditions

by Eugene Stickland,
reviewed by Alex Rettie

Firebird

by Glen Huser,
reviewed by Agnieszka Matejko

Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit, Second Edition

by Christof Spieler,
reviewed by Evan Osenton

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