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Mile Zero Dance’s new work will pay tribute to Edmonton’s Great Western Garment Company, which was founded in 1911 and became the largest workwear manufacturing company in Canada before closing [...]

In 2000 Calgary author Rea Tarvydas packed her bags and moved to Hong Kong, where she spent two years raising her children and writing. How to Pick Up a Maid in Statue Square, her debut [...]

Edmonton’s Sam Maggs writes for video games—an industry of almost all men, as she points out—and previously penned The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy. In Wonder Women, she returns to guiding [...]

At least since novelist Frances Burney’s indelible account of the experience of mastectomy circa 1812 (pre-anesthetics), breast cancer has catalyzed a capacious library of writing by women. This [...]

Sharon Butala’s second memoir, Where I Live Now, continues the story of her first—1994’s bestselling The Perfection of the Morning—offering readers a poignant look into her life over the past few [...]

Canadian political life can be hostile to women. In November 2016 Alberta MLA Sandra Jansen received misogynist, hateful comments when she crossed the floor after dropping out of the Progressive [...]

When recently researching public debt, I found an article from India that gave reasons why a country would turn to deficit financing. The first example was when the world dealt with the cost of [...]

Two years ago Alberta elected an NDP government. Right-wing pundits forecast disaster. Environmentalists were optimistic. The optimists may have been right. The NDP inherited many environmental [...]

Donald Trump’s war on US news media got me thinking about Alberta’s first Social Credit premier, William Aberhart. Like Trump, Aberhart did not enjoy the stories about himself he read in the [...]

Amber Cannon first applied for a subsidized apartment from Calgary Housing Company (CHC) in 1998, when she was 23 years old. Securing public housing would become an eight-year odyssey. Cannon [...]