Over the past four decades the population of Alberta’s largest cities has grown increasingly segregated by income, class and race, yet gentrification is seldom discussed in our province. [...]
When Chelsea Vowel’s new book Buffalo is the New Buffalo was released, I’d been away from the home Métis territories for about a year. In Vancouver I craved the openness of prairie sky and the [...]
The Annual Migration of Clouds imagines the University of Alberta as the site of a self-sustaining community in a dystopic near-future: the labyrinthine BioSci building is now living quarters and [...]
Given that Edmonton has the second-largest urban Indigenous population in the country, it astounds me that it took me a lifetime of reading Alberta books to encounter a story like Conor Kerr’s [...]
