Rollin Stanley
Last fall, Rollin Stanley, chief planner for the City of Calgary, took his 88-year-old aunt from her home in the city’s southeast to the Peace Bridge downtown. Like many Calgarians, Stanley’s [...]
Jeremy Klaszus
Jeremy Klaszus
Mr. Tree (Part Three)
March 1945. The sea rose and fell as a bitterly cold wind swept over the ship. Restless refugees, chilled and miserable, stood on the deck nervously scanning the brackish Baltic waters for Soviet [...]
Mr. Tree (Part Two)
Auguste, Ernst’s mother, was wise to flee East Prussia when she did. Many who stayed starved to death or worse. One of Ernst’s childhood friends endured six years of forced labour in a Soviet [...]
Mr. Tree
We spend a lot of time together lately, Opapa and me, mostly on his treed acreage southeast of Edmonton where he lives with my Omi. Cloistered by the aspens and poplars surrounding the blue [...]
Down the River
Winging my way over the deep green forest of northern Alberta toward Fort Chipewyan, I’m crammed into a twin- engine Piper PA 31-350 Navajo Chieftain with two pilots and five other passengers. We [...]
A Questionable Bargain
Irene Webster, a deli clerk at the Midnapore Allwest supermarket in Calgary, was curious when her employer instructed her to go to a 10 p.m. staff meeting on October 18, 1989. The paid meeting [...]
The New Temps
A sign hanging on the north side of the Olymel pork processing plant in northeast Red Deer reads: “JOIN OUR TEAM.” On the sign is a mean-looking pig sporting a pair of sunglasses. Despite the [...]
Trouble in the Fields
On an unusually hot May morning, in a bed and breakfast near the southern Alberta community of Rosebud, three women sit around a kitchen table sipping coffee. Debbie Signer, the owner of the bed [...]
Big Oil On Trial: The Story Nobody’s Telling
When Ottawa Citizen reporter Kelly Patterson heard about new evidence being presented in the lawsuit against Talisman Energy in the US District Court of New York, she set to work. She got on the [...]
The Little Neighbourhood That Could
Frank Mcloone reaches for the ringing phone in his office at Inglewood Silver Threads, a seniors organization located in the old Inglewood Telephone Exchange. He picks up and immediately sings a [...]
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Why She Runs
It's a half hour before dawn when Rachel Notley emerges from her hotel elevator, and I barely recognize her. She’s wearing her running clothes and a battered pair of Asics Gel running shoes. Despite having arrived in Calgary late the night before, she has a schedule to keep and she’s eager ...
The Plans to Strip-Mine Coal in the Mountains
It looks like spectacular wild country, but some see it more as a big money sandwich.
The top layer of that sandwich is comprised of alpine grasses, forget-me-nots and stonecrop, glacier lilies and ancient, brave pines whose branches have been gnarled and weathered by centuries of wind. In summer, solitaires and ...
Suddenly There’s Room at the Inn
On a recent Thursday outside the Coliseum Inn, a woman in wrinkled clothes balances a large blue sleeping bag atop her shoulder. In the parking lot a man pushes a shopping cart overflowing with clothing. Outside the lobby doors, a man asks, “Hey, got a dollar?”
The scene is at odds with ...