Should All University Students Take Some Liberal Arts?
A dialogue between Shelly Wismath and Ken Coates
Kenney VS. Campgrounds
The ongoing saga of Alberta's parks and recreation areas.
Why Coal Mines Always Get Approved
Alberta's flawed environmental assessment process.
Creating Art for Alberta Parks
What do you get when you mix frustration, creative energy, an extra cup of coffee and a threat to our province’s protected areas? In my case, a team of artists defending Alberta parks with their [...]
Goth Girls of Banff
Fear not, this book isn’t—despite its title—a collection of goth fantasies or undead horrors. The setting is the Bow Valley and surroundings, and the 10 stories well capture elements of this [...]
The Way of the Gardener: Lost in the Weeds Along the Camino de Santiago
This is not my first book about the Camino de Santiago. In fact, there is a bit of a roaring industry (as much as you can use that term in travel literature) for personal accounts of walking the [...]
On Nostalgia
What is nostalgia? Is it a growing phenomenon, an increasing trend in our accelerating world? Or has it always been with us, an essential part of the human condition? These are some of the [...]
Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
As a memoirist and occasional teacher of the form, I read Trina Moyles’ Lookout with more than a general reader’s interest, knowing that these days even the most talented writers have a hard time [...]
Pandemic Poems & We Are One: Poems from the Pandemic
Pandemic Poems and We Are One, edited by Kevin Solez and George Melnyk respectively, are complementary collections, both rising out of our shared ordeal of the last year. Each book assembles a [...]
What Bears Teach Us
I used to be in the bear police back in the 1960s and 1970s in the mountain national parks, although the actual policing meant ticketing bear botherers rather than the bears themselves. Lots of [...]