The Party is Here
Short fiction has limits. Years ago a colleague summed it up fairly reasonably as: “Short stories ask questions. Novels provide answers.” It doesn’t bother me that a story can’t be a complete [...]
Candas Jane Dorsey
Candas Jane Dorsey
Burning the Night
A new Glen Huser book is always welcome, whatever its subject. Huser is one of the steady, quiet lights of Alberta’s writing world—an excellent author who is often underappreciated, which I hope [...]
Green Glass Ghosts
Leaving home for the first time is already fraught for a teenager. But for the non-binary narrator of Green Glass Ghosts, a young queer person who has fled Calgary for the supposedly more [...]
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Should Post-Secondary Education be Free?
Hugh Mackenzie
The economist and research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says yes.
Free tuition would redress a massive intergenerational inequity created over the past 30 years. In 1990–91, average university tuition in Canada was $1,464; adjusted for inflation, that would be $2,541 in 2019–20. Today the actual average ...
Edmonton to Calgary in an Hour
Either way, the three-hour drive between Edmonton and Calgary on the QEII highway has the same itinerary: nice landscape, cows, trees, pumpjack, anti-Ottawa billboard, creeping boredom, leg cramp, Donut Mill raspberry bismarck, cows, fence, pickup truck passing you at 160 km/h, horse, trees, jackknifed semi-trailer in the ditch, pumpjack, cows, full-on boredom ...
Not a White-Bread Childhood
Toronto freelance portrait photographer Markian Lozowchuk (disclosure: his mother and I are second cousins) has photographed Justin Trudeau for Toronto Life and Margaret Atwood for Maclean’s, but his editorial shoot of Chrystia Freeland for Toronto Life in 2017, including the cover, was “the most memorable shoot I’ve done.” Even three ...