Behind Bars: Maximum Security + The Remand Centre
On a wintry overcast day the entrance to the maximum-security Edmonton Institution, about 20 minutes north- east of the city limits, is a narrow, snow-covered ribbon lined with grey willow [...]
Chernobyl’s Toxic Legacy
Two decades have passed since the world’s worst nuclear disaster erupted in a plume of radioactive fallout and fire at the Chernobyl power plant in the Ukraine on April 26, 1986. Hundreds of [...]
The Seed Catalogue Secret
In 1983 , several years after Seed Catalogue had appeared, Robert Kroetsch talked about the resources available to an aspiring writer on the Prairies in his time: “newspaper files, place names, [...]
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The Dramatic Fall of Jason Kenney
Subsequent events have cast shadows over the jubilant atmosphere at the BMO Centre in Calgary on October 28, 2017. This was a banner night for conservatism in Alberta as former federal cabinet minister and movement leader Jason Kenney rode to the stage in a signature blue pickup truck to claim the new ...
Professors Pushed to the Edge
It's a cold winter's day in Lethbridge, the sky a kind of pot-metal grey. The flags fly stiff at the university’s main entrance. In normal times my faculty colleagues and I would be in our offices. I’d be just getting back from teaching my 9:00 a.m. Canadian Society class. But nothing about the ...
Let’s Debate CanCon
When the Senate returns to work in September, one of its first orders of business will be to debate and study Bill C-11, which amends Canada’s broadcasting legislation. Our Broadcast Act hasn’t been changed in a serious way in over 30 years. Back then we watched shows on TV, listened to music on the ...