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When we lived in Jasper I used to fish until midnight in early summer. Big, brown drake mayflies hatched as the light faded and big rainbow trout moved into the shallows to feed on them. I [...]

There will be a provincial election early next year. Should we win, a number of you will be seated in the Legislature. It will be important to keep the learning curve as short and shallow as [...]

In 1875 the Northwest Mounted Police, dispatched south from Fort Edmonton to roust American whisky traders, arrived at Nose Hill and looked down on a green valley at the edge of the foothills. [...]

Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I just got back from one of the best summers of my life, working in the Alberta Climate Conservation Corps, so I’m writing to thank you for what you did, way back in the [...]

We find ourselves, again, as always at this time of year, tilted away from the sun and shivering in the blue shadows and bleak winds of another winter. Alberta is closer to the north pole than to [...]

Unless the Kenney UCP find a way to dodge and defer, we can expect to learn whether our government considers coal more important to Alberta’s future than water. It’s really as simple as that, [...]

In 1960s Calgary it was easy for a kid to be naive and free. Naive, because Alberta seemed a perfect place, far from all the ugliness populating the pages of the papers our parents read. Free, [...]

Fall solstice, September 22: The prairie grass, gold in the sun, stretched all the way to the end of a world of birds. Long wavering skeins of snow geese and sandhill cranes, shimmering swarms of [...]

In my childhood church we walked a short loop, some evenings, along the Stations of the Cross.  They were 14 bas-relief renditions of ordeals suffered on the day Jesus was crucified, arrayed [...]

The first big November snowstorm means bedtime for Alberta’s grizzly bears. This was a good berry year, so most will go to bed fat and wake up next spring healthy. And then some may die. The UCP [...]