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Vermin
Calgary novelist and short fiction writer Lori Hahnel’s second collection of short stories, Vermin, arrives at an opportune time, when short fiction is being lauded on literary award lists. Hahnel’s newest stories dramatize a mature handling of narrative craft. The book’s epigraph from Yeats signals its preoccupations—that only “sex and the dead” are worth serious […]

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Enfield and Wizenty, Jannie Edwards, Lori Hahnel, Teacher Strike, Wife
March 1, 2021
All That Glitters
A Climber’s Journey Through Addiction and Depression

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Alcohol, Antarctica, Canmore, Elaine Morin, Icefields Parkway, Memoir, Rocky Mountain Books, Suicide
Rough
The epigraph to Rough, from The Hobbit—“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”—could not be more fitting. Rough is not only about living “rough,” homeless on the streets, but also about ways of looking, seeing […]

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Storying Violence
Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Pheasant, Propaganda
If Sylvie Had Nine Lives
We meet Sylvie, the protagonist of Leona Theis’s third book, If Sylvie Had Nine Lives, in 1974, two nights before her wedding day in Ripley, Saskatchewan. She’s 19 and ambivalent about her deadbeat fiancé, Jack, and the single-stream eternity of small-town life ahead of her. While Jack is passed out on the couch, she slow […]

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The Expendables
How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalization

Tags: Abortion, Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Aluminum, Authoritarianism, Globalization, Peru, Populism, Racism, Random House Canada, Tariffs, Xenophobia
A Rogue Conservative
Drew Barnes vs. the premier.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, Autonomy, Canada Pension Plan, Cypress, Fair Deal Panel, Floor Crossing, Freedom of Speech, Graham Thomson, Mavericks, Progressive Conservative Party, Separatist, Wildrose Party
Ask Questions First, Shoot Never
First Nations policing in Alberta

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, Allan Adam, Audit, Auditor General, Cardston, Casinos, Chief of Police, Colonialism, Criminal Justice, Dene Nation, Everett Soop, Fort Chipewyan, Harm Reduction, Kainai Nation, Minister of Justice, Paramedics, Policing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Public Safety, Racism, Residential Schools, Salary, Siksika, Tsuut'ina Nation, Veterans
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