Firebird
Young adult novel
Evidence of Habitation
The reality of informal housing
Environmental Glossary
Secret memo to new UCP candidates.
Edmonton to Calgary in an Hour
How to make an Alberta high-speed train a reality
A Selected History of Soul Speak
In this latest collection of her poetry, A Selected History of Soul Speak, Andrea Thompson wants to put the tenuous relationship between spoken word and formal poetry to bed. Not only does her [...]
The Broken Places
Frances Peck’s debut novel, The Broken Places, about a fictional Vancouver earthquake and the lives it disrupts, takes a hatchet to the trope that those who can’t do, teach. As a writing workshop [...]
The Party is Here
Short fiction has limits. Years ago a colleague summed it up fairly reasonably as: “Short stories ask questions. Novels provide answers.” It doesn’t bother me that a story can’t be a complete [...]
Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap
Hockey’s Agents of Change
Should Alberta Have Toll Roads?
A dialogue between Enid Slack and D.T. Cochrane
Playing with Fire
Kenney reneges on recall legislation.