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Out of the Sun
On Race and Storytelling
Tags: Book review, Esi Edugyan, Massey Lectures, Miranda Martini
January 1, 2023
When Judges Use Political Language
Alberta’s alarming Impact Assessment Act reference case.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Court of Appeal, political language, politics
Blue Portugal and Other Essays
The essay is an accommodating form; it can take on almost any subject. Essays also, according to the author of this new collection, “braid and weave and assemble patterns.” They may contain “moments of poetry, phrases of song, recipes for very good soup.” Or even capture “the velocity of human thought in real time.” These […]
Tags: Alberta Views, Blue Portugal and Other Essays, Book review, Merna Summers, Theresa Kishkan
December 1, 2022
Front-Wave Boomers
Growing (Very) Old, Staying Connected and Reimagining Aging
Tags: aging, Alberta Views, Book review, boomers, Gillian Ranson, Jane Ross
The Sleeping Car Porter
Pages 209–214 of The Sleeping Car Porter list fictional works, memoirs and historical accounts that Calgary author Suzette Mayr consulted on the subject of sleeping car porters. With such a large body of work already available, why write a novel about the subject? Mayr must have felt that exploring the experience from the perspective of […]
Tags: 2022 Giller Prize, Alberta Views, Book review, Giller Prize, Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
Alone Together
A Pandemic Photo Essay
Tags: Book review, calgary, Leah Hennel, pandemic, Photo Essay, photography
(M)othering
An Anthology
Tags: Alberta Views, Anne Sorbie, Book review, Heidi Grogan, Lisa Martin, Mothering
Long Live the King?
Maybe we need the monarchy.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, constitutional monarchy, Graham thomson, King Charles, monarchy, On the Ledge, Queen Elizabeth II
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