To Me You Seem Giant
Greg Rhyno’s debut novel, which takes place in the mid-1990s and 10 years later, amounts to a painfully effective exercise in nostalgia. In keeping with a cassette-tape theme, the timelines are [...]
Naomi K Lewis
Naomi K Lewis
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Edmonton’s Sam Maggs writes for video games—an industry of almost all men, as she points out—and previously penned The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy. In Wonder Women, she returns to guiding [...]
Teardown
Teardown is Clea Young’s debut collection, but her work has already received much-deserved approbation, appearing in the prestigious Journey Prize Stories three times. Set in Young’s native BC, [...]
Infectious Fear
I went to the St. Joseph’s Hospital in an ambulance on my sixth birthday, paralyzed,” recalls Maxine Madison. It was December 22, 1953, in Edmonton, and Madison had polio. That year, 1,500 [...]
Their Alberta Home
My Prairie Home, the 2013 musical documentary about Calgary-born-and-raised multi-platform artist Rae Spoon, begins with a wide-angle shot of the Alberta prairie, upside down, through the window [...]
The Assault on Science
By May 2012 morale was low throughout Canada’s scientific community—and then the country’s scientists received a swift kick where it counts. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced [...]
No MD, No Problem?
In examination rooms across the province, patients sit in crunchy paper gowns, waiting for doctors. There’s not much to look at in the windowless rooms—perhaps some cross-sectional depictions of [...]
The Urge to Purge
“I’ve felt kind of backed up since I had my daughter last year,” an acquaintance told me, drinking herbal tea instead of her usual coffee. “I cleanse every spring,” said another, a few months [...]
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The Redwater Decision
All across this province, from the banks of the Peace River to the barley fields of Lethbridge County, 155,000 holes have been drilled in the ground that share four characteristics: They were made to release oil and gas from the Earth’s crust; they’ve produced as much hydrocarbon as they’re going ...
Are More Pipelines in the Public Interest?
David Hughes says no.
We are repeatedly told by the Trudeau government that we must meet our Paris climate change commitments and at the same time ramp up oil and gas production and build more pipelines in order to strengthen the economy. To this end, the federal government has gone ...
Trans Mountain Pipeline: Cold Pipe, Hot Rhetoric
Have you heard about Trans Mountain? Well, of course you have. Everyone has. There’s been nothing but heated talk about the planned expansion of the pipeline system carrying bitumen and other oil products from Edmonton to the Port of Vancouver for more than a year now. So much talk, in ...