Calgary-Buffalo
Calgary-Buffalo is as urban as it gets in Alberta—of the province’s 87 constituencies, Calgary-Buffalo has the highest population density and the smallest geographical size. The office towers in [...]
Is a Referendum a Good Way to Make a Decision?
TED MORTON The professor emeritus of political science at U of C and former Alberta minister of finance SAYS YES Referendums were first adopted in the western US in the Progressive Era, [...]
Adam’s Choice
To understand why he told the press, in April 2018, that Alberta First Nations “want to be owners of a pipeline,” specifically the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX), Chief Allan Adam of the [...]
Briefly Noted
Protest and Democracy (edited by Moisés Arce and Roberta Rice, University of Calgary Press, 2019). From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, mass protests shook countries around [...]
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
A yellow ski-doo pulls two sleds across an icy outflow. The machine loses grip and its track begins to spin aimlessly. Lyle Dupperon stands and rocks the machine from side to side. Left, right, [...]
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 [...]
Who’s Keeping Watch?
As a journalist, covering Alberta’s United Conservative Party government is a bit like trying to jump aboard a speeding locomotive. So much weight is moving at such great velocity that it’s [...]
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 [...]
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The Nenshi Years
I find it easy to forget what Calgary was like when it all began—before what I’ll call the Nenshi Years. It feels like a lifetime ago, several political epochs back. Before the pandemic, before the Olympic bid, before the flood. Before the boom—and whole boom–bust cycle—ended. Before the PC collapse ...
Sidewalks to Nowhere
On a cool November evening in 2012, a crowd of more than 100 invited guests, primarily land developers, gathered at a private venue in downtown Calgary. The host was Cal Wenzel, head of Shane Homes. From a stage in front of a big screen he proceeded to review each Calgary ...
Amarjeet Sohi
On a Friday morning in spring 2016, Amarjeet Sohi sat barefoot in the den of his craftsman style home in south Edmonton. His first few months as Canada’s federal minister of infrastructure had been frantic, sending him across the country to listen to the wants and needs of every big-city ...