Imagine a Canadian prairie city in which four separate, relatively unknown artists sign major label deals, three with US companies, in less than a year. What would happen?  “If four local [...]

When Nils Edenloff was a high school student in Fort McMurray, there was a minor scandal one summer involving a gaggle of teens who decided to ride their bicycles to Edmonton. It was received [...]

February. Cold Lake is frozen and silent. An ample sky mirrors the terrain below. But landscapes are inhabited even when they’re empty.  I’m here to visit the painter Alex Janvier at his gallery [...]

I still recall that morning as if it were yesterday. I awoke, startled, the way you do when your instincts sense something unfamiliar in your midst. A shimmering, raspberry-coloured light—unlike [...]