Calgary-Buffalo
High population density brings festivals, businesses and hot-button politics.
Is a Referendum a Good Way to Make a Decision?
A dialogue between Ted Morton and Jared Wesley
Adam’s Choice
A First Nation weighs the pros and cons of buying into the oil and gas industry
Boom Time, Tar Swan and Prologue for the Age of Consequence
Garth Martens’s debut performance, in his 2014 book Prologue for the Age of Consequence, set a poetic template, hammered together with a framer’s hammer and a carpenter’s level, for [...]
Fractured Forest
Alberta's Seismic lines dilemma
Rain Comin’ Down: Water, Memory and Identity in a Changed World
Since the “dark satanic mills” William Blake observed in 1808, writers have warned about the environmental consequences of industrialization. A lot of good those warnings did: Today a [...]
Disrupting Business As Usual
During the morning rush hour of October 7, 2019, 10 members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion Edmonton locked arms and blockaded Walterdale Bridge, shutting down traffic for 80 [...]
The Eater of Dreams
Steps away from the bombed-out remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall stands a small statue memorializing Sadako Sasaki, who was just two years old when the United States [...]