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September 7-11, 2026
Sep 14, 2026 · original
Tuesday, September 8: News circulates that Alberta separatist leader and lawyer Jeffrey Rath is facing a $109-million debt claim from US investors relating to his allegedly defaulting on a financing agreement related to First Nations and COVID-19 litigation. Read more: Independently Poor September 8: Landowners represented by Ecojustice submit an application in the Court of King’s Bench to challenge what they call the Alberta Energy Regulator’s “chronic underfunding” of orphan well cleanups. The year’s Orphan Well Levy is set at $154.56-million, with total cleanup costs in the province estimated at $1.66-billion. Read more: Dirty Cleanup Scheme Wednesday, September 9: The Saddle Lake Cree Nation asserts its “treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeing and proving gender-affirming care.” The statement is a response to a UCP government law aimed at trans and non-
August 31-September 4, 2026
Sep 4, 2026 · original
Monday, August 31: The province announces it will begin offering a specialty licence plate featuring a painting of bighorn sheep by wildlife artist Desmond McCaffrey. The Alberta Conservation Association will be given $55 from every plate sold. Read more: Problem Grizzly or Problem Politics? Tuesday, September 1: Premier Danielle Smith issues a statement celebrating Alberta Day. Within the hour, a corrected version is sent out that removes a paragraph from the English version acknowledging the “Indigenous Peoples whose enduring connection to and stewardship of this land continues to shape Alberta.” Read more: The Last Crew Thursday, September 3: Elections Alberta announces that the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot for the upcoming referendum has been extended by two weeks, to September 25. The agency adds it is expecting a voter turnout of 80–85 per cent. Read more: The Noxious Nin
Lament for a Literature
Sep 1, 2026 · original
Lament for a Literature: The Collapse of Canadian Book Publishing by Richard Stursberg Sutherland Press 2026/$19.95/100 PP. The demise of print culture has long been forecast due to the rise of digital media, but Canada perhaps leads the world in hastening its decline. Unlike the strict regulation of radio and television by the CRTC, which requires both Canadian ownership and content, Ottawa has done little to enforce its competition laws or foreign ownership limits in print media. The result in newspaper publishing, which I study, now sees US hedge funds owning 98 per cent of our dominant chain, Postmedia, despite a supposed 25 per cent limit on foreign ownership. Postmedia gobbled up the historic Southam chain in 2010, added Sun Media in 2014, and more recently took over Atlantic Canada’s Brunswick News in 2022 and Saltwire Network in 2024 without a peep from Ottawa. Local news provisi
Birth Story
Sep 1, 2026 · original
Birth Story by Elizabeth Belliveau Conundrum Press 2026/$20.00/200 PP. As far back as I can remember, I’ve practised a form of divination that involves opening a book to a random page and scrying it for portents, the way a wise woman might wax elegiac or auspicious, having pulled a card from the tarot. When I subject Elisabeth Belliveau’s graphic novel Birth Story to this practice, I land on a left-hand page image of a woman almost entirely obscured by her long avenues of tears—each running its own course the way raindrops travel at turns directional and pell-mell across a window pane. All details of her face are besmeared by black brush strokes save her pretty eyes with their pretty lashes; on the right-hand page is a drawing of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, with statements like “I have felt sad or miserable,” with check boxes that demand a disclosure of how true the stateme
Beneficiary
Sep 1, 2026 · original
Beneficiary by JoAnne McCaig University of Calgary Press 2026/$28.99/216 PP. Can being rich ever be morally neutral? Or morally good? These questions are at the heart of JoAnn McCaig’s new novel, Beneficiary , in which the main character, Seren, navigates the transition from deadbeat to wealthy heiress. The beginning of the book is set in a hedonistic 1970s West Coast, full of crappy apartments, bad situations and worse boyfriends. From there, a raucous ride takes us through conflict and mess to the 1990s, where a picture of what Seren was running from begins to emerge: a Calgary upper-class life of suburban country clubs, starched collars and “good” schools—what she describes as “a leash of pearls.” Seren—one letter short of serene—battles with her privilege for the entire novel. Her marriage to a working-class Irishman is ultimately about class divides. He, poor. She, rich. Then catast
Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance
Sep 1, 2026 · original
Tar Sands, Social Movements and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure by Amy Janzwood UBC PRESS 2025/$34.95/312 pP. As we approach the precipice of another pipeline battle, now is an opportune moment to pick up Amy Janzwood’s insightful and comprehensive analysis of the successes and failures of pipeline resistance in the opening decades of the 21st century. Janzwood recounts the divergent fates of two pipelines: the Northern Gateway, cancelled on the same day in November 2016 that prime minister Justin Trudeau approved the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX), which was completed in 2024. Janzwood, a political scientist, seeks to understand the conditions shaping the completion, delay or failure of oil sands pipeline projects in the recent past and uses these examples to flesh out some important answers. With the spike in oil sands production that heralded the early 2000s came the need for ad
Should Canada have a Senate?
Sep 1, 2026 · original
grant mitchell Says YES Former Alberta Opposition leader and Alberta senator (2005–2020) The parliamentary system has lasted for centuries because it includes elements critical to democracies: mechanisms to build consensus, accountability processes, checks to destabilizing change and counterbalances to government overreach. If it weren’t for our Senate, Canada wouldn’t exist. Smaller colonies were fearful of being overwhelmed in a federation dominated by Upper and Lower Canada. Linguistic minorities felt the same way. The Quebec Conference saw more debate on the Senate than any other matter. With 24 seats allocated to each of four regions, the Senate was designed to defend regional and minority rights. (The current Senate has 105 seats with six for Newfoundland/Labrador and three for the Territories.) Today the Senate is criticized for being unelected. Aware of the implications of not be
In the Spotlight
Sep 1, 2026 · original
AXIOS MEN’S ENSEMBLE Founded in Edmonton by a former monastic brother, Axios Men’s Ensemble gained national acclaim in 2026. The community-based choir won the JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year for their recording honouring the lives lost in Ukraine during the Russian invasion. It was the first ever win for an a cappella group. AMAL ALHOMSI Upon moving to Banff in 2018, Syrian writer Amal Alhomsi found it impossible not to write about the Rockies. His 2024 reflection Senescence: A Year in the Canadian Rockies, details his life in the Bow Valley, exploring climate anxiety, love and death. Alhomsi is also the editor-in-chief of Oesa magazine, which showcases the diverse work of Banff ’s artistic community. TARA BEAGAN This Lethbridge-raised playwright, actor and director’s works include Thy Neighbour’s Wife, Miss Julie: Sheh’mah, Reckoning, Deer Woman, The Ministry of Grace and Ris
Rewilding the Arts
Sep 1, 2026 · original
Garfield Morgan didn’t set out to become a professional artist. Always interested in creative work, he took a slightly more practical path to his early career, training in graphic design and working for several advertising agencies in his native Jamaica. Successful but feeling stuck, he applied to the design program at a state university in east Texas in hopes of gaining new skills and new perspectives. He got more than he bargained for. Upon arriving in the United States, Morgan was informed that the design program he’d been accepted into no longer existed. He could either head back home or transfer into the school’s fine arts program. “I tell people that the universe obviously had plans for me,” Morgan laughs as he explains how he found his way to being an artist. Impractical as a master’s degree in fine art may have seemed, returning home empty-handed felt even worse, so he embraced t
Do We Need a Universal Basic Income?
Sep 1, 2026 · original
If the funding landscape is challenging for arts organizations, it’s even more difficult for individual artists. With more competition for less funding and a dependence on one-off project grants, careers in the arts are prone to precarity. Calgary-based artist Eric Moschopedis of interdisciplinary artist duo Mia and Eric believes the solution is obvious, if also unlikely: “A universal basic income (UBI) is the way we should be resolving this, right?” Some jurisdictions are experimenting with exactly that. Ireland implemented a Basic Income for the Arts in 2026, providing 2,000 artists with €325 (roughly $520 CAD) per week for a three-year span. The program builds on a successful pilot that saw recipients producing more work, earning more revenue and spending more time on their practice while also experiencing less anxiety and higher life satisfaction. Moschopedis would prefer a truly uni

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