Dena will never, in her uneventful life, ride the beautifully refurbished woodblock steps of Macy’s escalator. Her vacations will never take her as far as New York. Nor will she ever face any [...]
How do you grow a poet?” Robert Kroetsch was asking how a new land, like Alberta, nurtures literary creativity, what a colonial society needs to do to grow its own stories. Kroetsch asked the [...]
Even before the Canada West Foundation took a hard look at the social costs of gambling, Foundation chairman, Jim Gray knew of the Video Lottery Terminals’ power to attract gamblers and wreak [...]
Less than a century ago, nine million tin-vane windmills clattered away, atop spindly derricks in North America’s farmyards, to generate energy for agricultural operations and homes. Of this vast [...]
Health care reforms have left almost 50 per cent of Albertans doubtful whether the system will be able to care for them when they need it. With hospital closures, backlogs in emergency wards, [...]