Murmuration
At this particular historical moment, when the rhythms and rituals of grief and belonging are upended by the reality of a global pandemic, A.B. Dillon’s latest book of poems offers insight into [...]
Benjamin Hertwig
Benjamin Hertwig
Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back: Poems for a Dark Time
In Tom Wayman’s latest collection, Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back, the long-time poet writes movingly of the natural world and confronts what he sees as “a surging lack of empathy” in today’s [...]
November
Kendall used to drive me really bloody crazy. The first time I saw him he was trimming his beard into the sink where I was supposed to be washing that morning’s dishes. I yelled at him: he [...]
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The Lesson of Lougheed
For 100 years, between 1905 and 2005, Albertans changed their government only three times (1921, 1935, 1971). The last of these elections, the most portentous, happened 50 years ago this August. Alberta has now changed government twice in the past six years. The next election may see yet another new government—meaning ...
The Assault on Higher Education
The Kenney government proclaimed in fall 2019 that Alberta’s post-secondary institutions were “overly dependent” on government funding—which is an odd thing to say about a public good. Then it declared that the province’s grant to the schools should be reduced by 20 per cent by 2023. The rationale for this ...
Rediscovering a River
The Cree called it Kisiskâciwanisîpiy—the swiftly flowing river. For the Blackfoot, it was omaka-ty—the big river. It starts in the Columbia Icefield, at the toe of the Saskatchewan Glacier, and cuts the province in half as it flows through Banff and Jasper national parks, northeast to Edmonton, then east-by-southeast across the ...