Night of Power
Night of Power is the debut novel of Anar Ali, a short-fiction writer who grew up in Red Deer. The book opens with an evocative prologue of a man waking in a frozen prairie landscape, attempting [...]
By Jasmina Odor
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I Am Herod
Richard Kelly Kemick is an agnostic who decides to try out for a role in the Canadian Badlands Passion Play. It’s a lark. He’s starting to conclude he’s less a writer than a failed writer, his [...]
By Jay Smith
Air Salt: A trauma mémoire as a result of the fall
Ian Kinney’s poetry is shattered. Or, in more literary terms, in Air Salt he uses disjunctive or cut up compositional methods, a non-linear form in keeping with an “accident” and its [...]
Winning Chance
No part of Katherine Koller’s Winning Chance is cynical. The 15 stories in this collection—the first from the Edmonton-based playwright and novelist—read more like the good-news piece at the end [...]
By Kate Black
Truth Be Told: My journey through life and the law
Beverley McLachlin’s memoir Truth Be Told chronicles her rise from “just a small-town girl from Pincher Creek” through the male-dominated ranks of Canadian lawyers and judges to become the first [...]
By Barb Howard
The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming myths that hinder progress
If I were allowed one recommendation on climate change policy it would be Mark Jaccard’s The Citizens’ Guide to Climate Success. It is a clearheaded, concise, information-packed effort by a [...]
By Noel Keough
Briefly Noted
1st Legion of Utopia: An epic tale of killers, queers and the birth of Canadian socialism (written by James Davidge, art by Bob Prodor and Nick Johnson, Renegade Arts Entertainment, 2019). Set in [...]
By albertaviews
The New Alberta Advantage: Technology, policy and the future of the oil sands
Ready or not, technological changes within the global energy system are “going to have a profound effect on Alberta in the not too distant future,” writes journalist Markham Hislop in The New [...]
Eight Track
In her sixth book of poetry, Oana Avasilichioaei offers a multi-frequency meditation on the various meanings of “tracks” and “tracking”—sound tracks, animal tracks, landscapes and languages as [...]
Bad Law: Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada
This very timely book about legal reform should be read not only by legal professionals but by all those interested in the fair administration of criminal justice, particularly as it applies to [...]
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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 ...
Alberta’s Black Swan
The best evidence of our conservative government’s cluelessness before the economy tanked in 2020 is the provincial budget. It was passed in a rush on March 18, 2020, two months after the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, had arrived in Canada. Oil demand in China was already down 20 per cent. Oil storage ...
Part 1: A Tribute to Charlie Russell
Charlie Russell loved to fly, and he seldom phoned first those times when he would fly his Kolb ultralight airplane north from Hawk’s Nest ranch on the boundary of Waterton Lakes National Park, to our “ranchette” near the Crowsnest Pass. We would hear the thrum of the plane’s Rotax motor ...