September Issue
PHOTO ESSAY
In the Spotlight
From winning awards to advocating for change, Alberta artists make an impact
View of Alberta
Street Performer
Edmonton, 2005.
Book Reviews
Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance
by Amy Janzwood
reviewed by Liza Piper
Beneficiary
by JoAnn McCaig,
reviewed by Megan Clark
Birth Story
by Elisabeth Belliveau,
reviewed by Ana Harbec
Lament for a Literature
by Richard Stursberg,
reviewed by Marc Edge
Columns
Eye on Alberta
Orpheum
by A.V. Wakefield, Blairmore, 2018.
Contributors
(“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.
(“Should Canada have a Senate?” Dialogue) is a co-founder of Democracy Watch and author or co-author of over 20 reports on government and corporate accountability issues.
(“Rewilding the Arts”) is a writer and arts advocate. He’s the former director of Quickdraw Animation Society and has volunteered with the Calgary Underground Film Festival, the Calgary International Film Festival, Sled Island and the Calgary Folk Music Festival.
(“Should Canada have a Senate?” Dialogue) was an MLA from 1986 to 1998 (Edmonton Meadowlark; Edmonton McClung) and the leader of the Official Opposition from 1994 to 1998. He was an Alberta senator from 2005 to 2020.
(review of Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance) is a professor at the U of A who teaches the history of disease, environmental history and Alberta resource politics.
(“Tale of Two Cities,”) is a writer, reviewer, playwright and curriculum designer who lives in Calgary.
(“In the Spotlight,”) was managing editor at the U of A’s The Gateway in 2024–25 and Alberta Views’s summer intern in 2026.
(illustrations for “Rewilding the Arts,”) is an Alberta-raised, Toronto based artist and comic journalist.
