It’s Monday night at Edmonton’s Varscona Theatre and onstage many of the city’s best actors and playwrights are creating a piece of “spontaneous theatre”— an improvised Arthurian romance. King [...]
The University of Alberta scored an academic coup when it recruited eminent diamond researcher Dr. Thomas Stachel. German-born Stachel arrived in Edmonton in September 2001 under the splendid [...]
The stands in the gym at Sherwood Park’s Salisbury Composite High School are packed. Parents, students and fans wave signs urging their teams to give their all for that one last victory. This [...]
It’s eight o’clock in the morning at police headquarters in Edmonton and a platoon of recruits are smacking each other around with knees and open palms. Half, dressed in thick padded suits, look [...]
Whether he’s marching through the aisles at the supermarket of pacing the sidelines while coaching his son’s indoor soccer team, there’s a crisp hospital‑corner precision to Richard Grant’s [...]
I was 18 when my family first bought toilet paper. Don’t get the wrong idea. We knew the merits of cleaning oneself after a trip to the bathroom. It’s just that for the first 18 years of my life [...]