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How the popular movements that shaped our province were perverted into populism.

Forget debt-slashing. The premier’s greatest achievement is a one-party state so deeply entrenched that it may never be dislodged.

Alberta’s beleaguered green community must reorganize, re-prioritize and get down to work. Then we can call ourselves a true movement.

Improv has played a pivotal, if little known, role in building Alberta’s theatre community.

A year ago I moved to Montreal. I thought I could learn more about the country by living in a place most different from Alberta, a place where I didn’t know anyone. To my surprise, I ran into [...]

The Not-So-Predictable 2004 Election.

Should the Alberta Government Ban Butts in the Workplace or Butt Out of the Issue?

How our three party leaders find their bearings in an increasingly diverse and secular Alberta.

For 20 years the Writers Guild of Alberta has encouraged and enabled writers to pursue the Writers Life

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 [...]