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Since 1984 Sharon Butala has published 21 books; her second, Queen of the Headaches, was shortlisted for the 1986 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, which was won by Margaret Atwood’s The [...]

When Justin Trudeau was photographed, by his carefully positioned media team, solo paddling a red canoe down the Bow River in Calgary on September 17, 2015, ostensibly travelling to a federal [...]

Twenty years later, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 feel as recent as ever—at least when it comes to the wave of Islamophobia they sparked. Recent years have seen mass shootings at mosques in [...]

Ideologically driven and lacking basic understanding of how children learn

Unpredictable yet increasingly consistent, smoke season dominates our conversation whenever it arrives. It’s novel, and ominous, and fleeting, the perfect conversational kindling. Imagine, we [...]

Erika Shaker and Giovanni Gallipoli discuss

Don’t go crying to the Queen…!

New Alberta Books

Barb Howard’s new novel, Happy Sands, details the summertime revelation of 42-year-old massage therapist Ginny (short for Ginette, which reminds her of a “too-small bottle of booze, the kind you [...]

Italians first came to Alberta in the 1880s; sojourners who followed the promise of work. At that time, Canada judged Italians as unsuitable for settlement and classified them as “non-preferred [...]