Frontenac House Poetry Quartet 2020
The book launch for the 2020 annual Frontenac House Poetry Quartet, which the publisher is calling its “COVID quartet,” was understandably virtual. So, in honour of the wine and cheese [...]
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Raise Revenues!
Five economists and one health policy expert on how Jason Kenney can address the other side of Alberta’s fiscal ledger
Ours By Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
On June 7, 1917, for the first time ever, (some) Albertan women headed to the polls for a provincial election. Their counterparts in Saskatchewan followed 19 days later, and before the end of the [...]
We Remember the Coming of the White Man
We Remember the Coming of the White Man is an extraordinary, educational account told by Sahtú and Gwich’in Dene Elders who witnessed the meeting of two worlds—Indigenous and settler—at the dawn [...]
Relax, Dammit!
A User’s Guide to the Age of Anxiety
Should Alberta Have Its Own Pension Plan?
A dialogue between Niels Veldhuis and Ellen Nygaard
Not a White-Bread Childhood
Chrystia Freeland's Alberta Roots
Arborescent
Marc Herman Lynch’s debut novel, Arborescent, is a triptych—three distinct novellas connected by setting (a rundown apartment building) and a dark, magical atmosphere. In a wintery Moh’kíns’tsis [...]
Stories of Ice: Adventure, Commerce and Creativity on Canada’s Glaciers
In Stories of Ice, Canmore-based author Lynn Martel explores glaciers in Western Canada from numerous angles. While many Albertans may not give these huge masses of ice much thought—aside, [...]