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Without looking at me, my brother said—and it might have been Canada itself speaking—“Here’s your stick.”

Tags: Alcohol, Canada, Hockey, Muskrat, Secular

April 1, 2020

Organizing a Women’s March

Nine days out from the January 21, 2017, Women’s March on Washington, DC, Calgary had no local march scheduled. If it hadn’t been for Joni, this city wouldn’t have been part of the largest single-day protest in history, in which more than seven million people protested worldwide. Wanting to get involved, Joni looked online and, […]

Citizen Action

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Facebook, Racism, Rape, Social Media

March 20, 2020

Chance Encounters with Wild Animals

The title of Calgary writer Monica Kidd’s fourth collection of poetry, Chance Encounters with Wild Animals, suggests an exploration of the risks and rewards of wilderness travel, the kind that makes possible rare encounters with wildlife. However, the poet’s actual meetings with animals in Antarctica, where she travelled as an expedition guide, are brief and […]

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Antarctica, Atlantic, Gaspereau Press, Jannie Edwards

March 1, 2020

The Empress of Idaho

I loved Edmonton author Todd Babiak’s The Empress of Idaho. Set in Monument, Colorado, it features all the hallmarks of a small-town America coming-of-age story in the late ’80s, complete with weary single mothers, hard-talking football coaches and caricatured cops. A time when boys pumped gas and rich girls played tennis. When Cadillacs ruled, VHS […]

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Ali Bryan, Empress, Idaho, Romance, Social Media

This Has Nothing To Do With You

That morning” are the first two words of Lauren Carter’s new novel: “That morning,” the one after Melony’s high school graduation party, when everything changes. She wakes up feeling right with the world and sure of her future, but in “a split second,” when she gets a glimpse of her mother’s car at an obvious […]