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On January 1 of this year, a large number of women, estimated at “hundreds of thousands” and “five million” in different stories in The Guardian, formed a human chain that stretched the entire [...]

Farming, Feminism and the Fight to Feed the World

Calgary’s Handsome Alice Theatre is taking its efforts to give a voice to women one step further with inVISIBLE, a collaborative project involving members of the community whose perspectives are [...]

25 Innovators, Inventors and Trailblazers Who Changed History

The raucous and revolutionary One Yellow Rabbit.

More women are in the workforce than ever before. But Alberta’s wages and workplaces still heavily favour men.

I answered the phone. A male voice asked to speak to the man in charge. I said I was in charge and could I help him? “I don’t want to talk to a goddamn girl,” he replied. I snapped.

The Changing Faith of Alberta.

When I moved to Calgary in 1993, my knowledge of the West was limited despite my father’s prairie heritage. I knew that Calgary was a boomtown, the host of the 1988 Winter Olympics and, from my [...]

Would You Want to Live There?