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On a fall afternoon in 2016, Michael Mahon, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Lethbridge, sat in his office and pondered, once again, what to do about Anthony Hall. Hall is a [...]

At 5:20 p.m. on October 28, 2017, minutes before the accidental, and then the official announcement of the winner of the United Conservative Party’s (UCP) first-ever leadership race, blue and [...]

Surely,” asserts Susan L. Smith at the end of her meticulously researched and thought-provoking Toxic Exposures, “the history of the mustard gas experiments during World War II provides a [...]

Imagine it’s 2050 and bitumen can be sold for many times the price it commands today. But not as fuel to burn: its molecules will be transformed into carbon fibres, graphenes and other [...]

Today at a random location in Alberta, one can encounter the consequences of the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. I didn’t know this until I went for a haircut. That’s where I met [...]

Alberta may be the only Canadian province in which two premiers collaborated to write a play. That William Aberhart and Ernest Manning were playwrights—in 1931, before either became premier—is [...]

“So,” says Pat Buffalo, “are you going to report what everybody else reports on—the shooting and the violence and all the stuff the media jumps on as soon as they hear it’s going on? Or are [...]

I ’ve seen the transformation of the country in my lifetime,” says biologist  Lorne Fitch as we drive up gravel Highway 517 to Hidden Creek. “Alberta’s Forest Service has failed to recognize [...]

On election night, Calgary NDP supporters gathered at the Arrata Opera Centre. Party stalwart Bob Hawkesworth was there, and just before 9:00 p.m., when the NDP majority was declared, he said, [...]

Alberta is a cyborg landscape. Beneath the surface of the land, over 400,000 km of pipelines course through the province, a steel capillary network buried a metre or two deep. Gathering lines [...]