On October 3, 2019, Alberta’s Public Interest Commissioner, Marianne Ryan, dropped a bombshell report. After an extensive investigation that included interviews with numerous Alberta Energy [...]

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 [...]

When Nick Zon drove onto the property on Moonlight Bay in 1973, “I knew it was the one,” he says. Willows and poplars shone golden-green in the sun. Lake waters lapped at the grassy bank. Zon, an [...]

Kevin Van Tighem, the conservation and nature writer and former superintendent of Banff National Park, says no. Our fight against the mountain pine beetle is doomed to failure. And in fighting [...]

Much has been written about the egregious environmental impacts of Alberta’s oil sands, from fugitive clouds of petcoke dust (which damage human lungs and hearts) to the invisible curse of [...]