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During the 19th century, its own employees often joked that the Hudson’s Bay Company’s initials (HBC) stood for “Here Before Christ.” For many Canadians, there has always been a Hudson’s Bay [...]

The estranged (and deranged) loner who takes refuge in the wilds on the fringes of settlement is a familiar trope in North American storytelling. I think of Rudy Wiebe’s mad trapper, Albert [...]

The Parkland Institute marks 25 years

A virus that killed almost no one but Nobodies. What could be more convenient?

An ongoing history of the UCP.

…thanks to a rambunctious friend.

Rebecca Graff-McRae and Peter Shawn Taylor

Why I was forced off the Banff Centre board

COVID-19 exposed decades of neglect

Leaving home for the first time is already fraught for a teenager. But for the non-binary narrator of Green Glass Ghosts, a young queer person who has fled Calgary for the supposedly more [...]