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Two blue seats could go orange

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 [...]

In conservative rural Alberta, newspaper columns provide a forum for critique

Exhibit is a disorienting yet beautiful book. A collage of found poetry assembled from sources as diverse as child psychology textbooks, a Three Stooges autobiography and hours of research in the [...]

Albertans of all ideological persuasions know these are strange times: anecdote supplants evidence; social media platforms bring us hyper-partisan news; and experts, despite their research record [...]

Photographers face fierce competition nowadays. Even five-year-old children snap pictures, and the smallest minutiae of the day fill the internet. Photography has become the lingua franca of our [...]

The centennial of Alberta’s workers’ uprising

A dialogue between Deborah Yedlin and Kevin Taft

An appreciation for Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission

The Trans Canada Trail has become a dangerous hoax