The public is investing almost $1 billion to expand Alberta’s irrigation network. For whose benefit?
Rural communities around the world share the experience of decline. Yet, paradoxically, researchers and other experts will tell you rural areas must play a growing role in their countries’ development
How COVID-19 has fanned the flame of Edmonton's lethal overdose crisis
Reviewing The Observer, a novel by Marina Endicott
Reviewing A Kid Called Chatter, a novel by Chris Kelly
A review of Borderlands by the Calgary photographer Mark Vitaris
A review of Rain Coming’ Down: Water, Memory and Identity in a Changed World by Robert William Sandford
Amid the horror of the opioid crisis, it's clear the rural life is vanishing and there’s no pill to cure the ill. What can we do?
Jonathan Avis had a gift for turning around distressed food businesses. But, after a whirlwind of misfortune, the one business he couldn’t turn around was his own
How cannabis will change your city – and, maybe, you
A blind disability advocate explains how he sees Oliver — and how his neighbourhood sees him
Amid chronic underfunding, administrative red tape and a breakdown in trust, Alberta First Nations take their fight for safe drinking water to all levels of government
Jay and Robert Peers defrauded investors of $80 million, scarring their family's 100-year-old legacy
Following the irrigation network that feeds the world and defines a province
After the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, Fort McMurray reopens for business
As marijuana lurches toward legalization, Big Weed targets the little guys
Does the expiration of the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber agreement spell the end of Alberta’s forestry industry?
Oil sands operators say they’ve made the reclamation of tailings ponds a key tenet of their social responsibility mandate. They haven’t
These changes will benefit Alberta, and it’s worth remembering how many were fought for and won by migrant-worker coalitions and non-profits
Anti-immigration rhetoric is suddenly more dangerous, and more prevalent, than ever
You’ve seen the numbers – now, hear from those rebuilding their lives after losing their oil-and-gas sector jobs
Century Downs aims to revive Alberta's horse racing industry. Is it a safe bet?
The harvest of 2013 should have been a windfall for prairie farmers. Instead, the grain industry lost billions. Farmers blame the railways – and they’re banding together to change the rules
As harvest rolls in, so do publicly funded insurance payments to drought-stricken farmers. But do the payments actually mitigate the drought's impact? Or is it a billion-dollar solution to the wrong problem?
The recent drought has impacted farmers’ pastures and crops to the point of emergency. Is this a bad year or the new normal?
How one town raised the capital to invest in – and save – the local abattoir