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TwoBlackEyes and the Unfinished Script
by Tyler Trafford
Tags: Autonomy, Frontenac House
December 1, 2017
The Dark and Other Love Stories
The Dark and Other Love Stories composes a bouquet of generosity, a complex sensitivity to the ecosystem of love. These stories, Calgary writer Deborah Willis’s second collection, shine a light into ghostly corners that are so often ignored in the clash and discord of contemporary fiction, especially those that announce or denounce contemporary “love.” Instead, […]
Tags: Alberta Books, Anthology, Deborah Willis, Hamish Hamilton
Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Alice Major, Andrew Nikiforuk, Canmore, David Albahari, Essays, Fred Stenson, Geo Takach, George Melnyk, Merna Summers, University of Calgary Press
The Tortured Wallet
…and the ear-splitting cry.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bill Morneau, Capital Gains, Fred Stenson, Jim Flaherty
Optical Illusion
An ocularist makes you whole again
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Assisted Living, Canmore, Quality of Life, Steven Ross Smith
Where Leaders Matter More Than Party
The summer of 2017 saw big changes in Alberta party politics. The Progressive Conservatives, which had governed the province from 1971 to 2015 and established a Canadian record for longevity, voted itself out of existence. They merged with the official opposition Wildrose to form the United Conservative Party. Not all PC members supported joining their […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Autonomy, By-Election, David Taras, Floor Crossing, Great Depression, Israel, Leadership Race, Majority Government, Peter Lougheed, Polarization, Populism, Separatist, Socialism, Western Canada Concept, Working-Class
The Heavy Bear
Every author has a verb. Munro dazzles, Morrison provokes, Atwood survives. Tim Bowling, quite simply, writes. The man’s laptop doubles as a conveyor belt; to date (and I may already be behind by the time this review goes to print), Bowling has published countless books. I mean “countless” in a literal sense because I’ve been […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Governor General's Award, Richard Kelly Kemick, Wolsak and Wynn
Ice and Fire
Celebrating Waterton’s renewal.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Migration, Social Media, Waterton, Waterton Lakes National Park, Wildfire
Cheryl Foggo’s John Ware
At the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site south of Longview they tell a story about John Ware. The Black cowboy and rancher, a former slave in the US, was hired in 1882 to help bring 3,000 cattle across the border to the Bar U, where he would help manage the roaming herds. Shortly after […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Cheryl Foggo, Glenbow, John Ware, Longview, Maureen McNamee, Ranching, Rodeo, Writers Guild of Alberta
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