What’s For Dinner, Alberta?
When I first heard the term “Alberta regional cuisine,” I visualized the foods I ate when I was growing up—barbecued steak with fresh garden peas, roast beef, new potatoes and gravy, farm fresh [...]
Troubled Waters
Soon after his 1876 arrival at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, Northwest Mounted Police Commissioner Irvine proposed that the new fort be called Calgary “… which I believe is [...]
The Measure of a River
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. . . . He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look upon it from as many [...]
Farming the Next Millennium
Make your way along any asphalt corridor in Alberta during the coming months and you’ll find yourself wrapped in an indescribably gorgeous landscape. Fields of green and gold ripening under the [...]
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How Ethical is Alberta’s Governing Party?
We should have seen it coming. The first inkling that controversy would dog Jason Kenney’s victory in the 2017 United Conservative Party leadership race came not during that contest but a year earlier, when Kenney ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives.
On the evening of November 16, 2016, at ...
Inside the War Room
On the campaign trail in 2018, Jason Kenney promised that one of his first acts as premier would be to establish a “fully staffed, rapid response war room” to defend Alberta’s oil and gas sector. This was the cornerstone of his “Fight Back Strategy,” a massive shift in the tenor ...
Getting the Axe
Rod Skura was on a deadline. It was a Thursday afternoon, mid-August, and as an Alberta events-listing site had proclaimed: “Festival season is in full swing and you need to take advantage of it before it comes to a screeching halt.” The weekend festivities—“a whole lot of music, culture, food ...