Rarely does one get to review a book for which praise and critique can be given in the same breath. Leroy Paul Wolf Collar’s First Nations Self-Government presents such an opportunity. A former [...]
Fiction by Carissa Halton, Illustration by Jonathan Dyck.
Jason Kenney's many violations of democratic norms
New Alberta books
Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk
Vicki Laveau-Harvie was raised on a ranch near Okotoks, though she left as soon as she could, eventually settling in Australia. Now in her 70s, she has published her first book, a memoir of her [...]
In Mark Lisac’s engaging new mystery, his second novel after a long career as a political journalist, Edmonton lawyer George Rabani reopens a client’s sale of his personal photo collection to the [...]
In Tom Wayman’s latest collection, Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back, the long-time poet writes movingly of the natural world and confronts what he sees as “a surging lack of empathy” in today’s [...]
The Adventures of Isabel begins with a bleak scene. Broke, depressed and grown listless after being laid off from her job as a social worker, a queer protagonist and narrator is asked to [...]
In Democracy in Canada, the dean of Canadian public administration has set his sights on one of the most pernicious forces eroding our national institutions: regionalism. Donald Savoie’s thesis [...]
