Taking Back the Neighbourhood
When sheriffs shut down drug houses
Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard
From its opening lines, Jenna Butler’s Magnetic North, a poetic chronicle of her two-week-long sailing journey through Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, delivers keen, tactile observations of a [...]
The Melting Queen
Bruce Cinnamon’s debut novel The Melting Queen takes a unique approach to both historical fiction and magic realism, two genres that Alberta writers have long worked with in transformative ways. [...]
Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy
On January 1 of this year, a large number of women, estimated at “hundreds of thousands” and “five million” in different stories in The Guardian, formed a human chain that stretched the entire [...]
Should Alberta Have Higher Taxes?
A dialogue between Greg Flanagan and Bev Dahlby
The New Literacy
Cool new public library buildings get attention, but it’s what’s inside that counts
Back to the Garden
A writer reflects on her Alberta roots