In 1898 W.C. Gardner left his job as a sailor in the  British Navy and bought an abandoned ranch in the foothills west of Nanton. More than a century later, his grandson Francis with wife Bonnie [...]

Local myth tells us that it was the beloved Father Albert Lacombe, missionary to the Cree and Blackfoot, who picked the site for the church at the turn of the last century. Though he was based [...]

Andrew Nikiforuk has done an admirable job of mapping the arc of Wiebo Ludwig’s radicalization: from acid-tongued critic of the oil industry to convicted and jailed saboteur. Nikiforuk examines [...]

  When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable [...]