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What do you get when you mix frustration, creative energy and a threat to our province’s protected areas?

Fear not, this book isn’t—despite its title—a collection of goth fantasies or undead horrors. The setting is the Bow Valley and surroundings, and the 10 stories well capture elements of this [...]

Lost in the Weeds Along the Camino de Santiago

What is nostalgia? Is it a growing phenomenon, an increasing trend in our accelerating world? Or has it always been with us, an essential part of the human condition? These are some of the [...]

As a memoirist and occasional teacher of the form, I read Trina Moyles’ Lookout with more than a general reader’s interest, knowing that these days even the most talented writers have a hard time [...]

Poems from the Pandemic

I used to be in the bear police back in the 1960s and 1970s in the mountain national parks, although the actual policing meant ticketing bear botherers rather than the bears themselves. Lots of [...]

Variety isn't just the "spice of life" - it's the foundation upon which we thrive.

Should Alberta oil resemble Norway or Texas?

Alberta’s other political parties.