The Michener Centre sits on a green space with century-old trees overlooking the city of Red Deer. It is a safe haven for people who have severe developmental disabilities, physical impairment or [...]

In case you haven’t heard, last year the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canadian fiction’s richest literary honour, was won by Lynn Coady for her book of short stories Hellgoing. The year before that, [...]

I went to the St. Joseph’s Hospital in an ambulance on my sixth birthday, paralyzed,” recalls Maxine Madison. It was December 22, 1953, in Edmonton, and Madison had polio. That year, 1,500 [...]

When she took over as the top administrator of healthcare in Alberta, Vickie Kaminski did something that, as far as she knows, none of her predecessors had ever done. She spent the summer meeting [...]