Alberta’s separatist movement is not what it appears to be. Behind the cowboy hats and grievance speeches about equalization payments lies something far more serious: a documented foreign influence ...

As we hurtle toward the referendum vote on Alberta’s place in Confederation, I have a question: When exactly did Alberta slip into an alternate universe? I mean, at what point did we become a hornet’s ...

Given the consequential implications of this tenth question, it’s important we understand where a separatist gets their information.

On March 12, 1906, lieutenant governor George Bulyea received a sheaf of 64 papers signed by premier Alexander Rutherford. These were the first-ever public accounts of the province of Alberta. The ...

Alberta needs immigrants. Our aging population and growing economy has led to labour shortages that only immigrants can fill. This is nothing new. Since its founding, the province has welcomed waves ...

What do a raccoon, a mushroom, a robot and a young girl have in common? They all love music, of course! This middle-grade graphic novel by Alberta author and illustrator Jarrett Sitter is very ...

Monday, September 28: The province says it will look for private-sector proponents of a Calgary–Edmonton high-speed rail project. The proposed connection would see a trip take about one hour, 45 ...

Following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report in 2015, Canadian society embarked upon a learning process. We were learning that the stories told about our history and ...

It’s hard to imagine that a novel filled with graphic depictions of domestic violence, wartime atrocities and enduring ethnic hatred could be an uplifting page-turner. Yet that is precisely the ...

Finding the way home can be hard for one who didn’t live there. The journey is particularly challenging when it also requires learning to think about and perceive the world differently than how one ...

A number of months ago Myrna Kostash, the celebrated Alberta author an activist, gave me her personal copy of Mark Satin’s Manual for Draft-age Immigrants to Canada. I had read a reprint of the ...