What do you get when you mix frustration, creative energy, an extra cup of coffee and a threat to our province’s protected areas? In my case, a team of artists defending Alberta parks with their [...]

In 1950s rural Alberta, streams, lakes, forests and meadows teemed with biodiversity. It was paradise for kids. Spring, summer and fall; barefoot, grubby and largely unsupervised, we caught frogs [...]

Martin Lukacs, the investigative journalist, editor at The Breach and author of The Trudeau Formula says yes. This is a make or break decade for climate action, which will either usher in a [...]

On February 8, 2021, after months of growing concern among Albertans at the thought of a half-dozen new coal mines in the headwaters of south-central Alberta’s rivers, Energy Minister Sonya [...]

If you’re unhappy with the state of Alberta politics and are tempted as a summer project to form your own political party, might I suggest you call it the “None of the Above” party. Or [...]

In 1960s Calgary it was easy for a kid to be naive and free. Naive, because Alberta seemed a perfect place, far from all the ugliness populating the pages of the papers our parents read. Free, [...]

After hearing that McLean Creek is exempt from new Kananaskis user fees, I hiked in to see the state of the area. It’s a mess, and the entire thing is politically motivated. My photos show the [...]

I hear children giggling, wood being chopped and wind blowing through towering lodgepole pines as I use the back of a hatchet to tap my tent stakes into the soft, pine-needle-covered earth. It’s [...]