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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]