Not a White-Bread Childhood

Chrystia Freeland’s Alberta Roots

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• Essay
• Feature
• Immigrants
• Profile

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April 1, 2021

Arborescent

Beautifully macabre and surreal

• Book Reviews
• Fiction

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Bruce Cinnamon, Marc Herman Lynch

Stories of Ice

Adventure, Commerce and Creativity on Canada’s Glaciers

• Book Reviews
• Non Fiction

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Once Were Mountains

The premier’s vision.

• Wit

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Australia, Fred Stenson, Minority Government, Peter Lougheed, Strip-Mine, Tourism

Blogging the Revolution

And founding a soapbox

• Citizen Action

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Children of Freedom

Next year, we hope.

• On Second Thought

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Holocaust, Israel, Library and Archives, Monopoly, Nazis, Paula Simons, Poland, Translation, Winnipeg

The $120 Billion Question

Is AIMCo a good money manager?

• Feature
• Finance

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A History of My Brief Body

    Between climate change, the pandemic, a new civil rights movement and political chaos, alarming predictions of apocalypse have become mainstream. But, as Billy-Ray Belcourt shows in his memoir A History of My Brief Body, the ending of the world “as we know it” is not the end of the world. Belcourt explores his […]

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Tags: Billy-Ray Belcourt, Hamish Hamilton, Sexuality

March 1, 2021

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 […]

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