Culture

Sarah Chayes went to Afghanistan as a reporter, but stayed to rebuild a nation she sees as pivotal to our future.

One hundred and thirty years after Treaty 7, a stunning new centre honours Siksika culture.

Calgary’s Kurds live poised between a horrific past and an uncertain future.

One province, many languages: Babel or boom?

A former soldier wants to create a better world, one turn of the wheel at a time.

I answered the phone. A male voice asked to speak to the man in charge. I said I was in charge and could I help him? “I don’t want to talk to a goddamn girl,” he replied. I snapped.

Meat-packing, refugees and the transformation of Brooks.

The 20th anniversary of the infamous nuclear meltdown stirs bitter memories for one Albertan, prompting a closer look at a global disaster former Soviets are still sweeping under the rug.

Robert Kroetsch’s long poem is to Albertans what Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is to Americans. Revealing how we create a culture out of emptiness, the poem’s mystery lies in what it leaves unsaid.

The Edmonton Art Gallery has been rebranded. It has a new name and will get a fabulous $48-million facelift. But can the EAG really be the art gallery for all of Alberta?