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Chris Turner

Chris Turner is the author of The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands. He is based in Calgary.
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Sports

The Journeyman

October 27, 2015January 3, 2022 - by Chris Turner

Chris Colabello kept fouling off baseball’s bad breaks until he got a pitch he could hit

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Photograph of Justin Trudeau
Politics

The Nicest Guy in the Room

October 23, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Justin Trudeau is nothing like the caricature his opponents created—and that’s why he won

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Photograph courtesy of Bain News Service/Library of Congress
Technology

@Baseball

October 13, 2015January 3, 2022 - by Chris Turner

The playoffs and Twitter fit together like a hand and a glove

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Canoes and paddles by a shallow creek
Environment / September 2014

Mr. Weaver Goes to Victoria

September 2, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Chris Turner

A renowned climate scientist gets political

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June 2014

How Calgary Survived the Flood and Why Other Cities Won’t

June 2, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Why we need to better plan for extreme weather

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Flood Survival Tips
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Flood Survival Tips

May 22, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Chris Turner

From the Walrus Talks Water: Vancouver

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January/February 2014

Fool’s Gold

January 7, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Panning Discovery Channel’s Klondike

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Photograph by Colin Way
November 2012

When Is a Food Truck More Than a Food Truck?

October 22, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Chris Turner

When it helps city dwellers imagine ways to renew moribund public spaces. The tools of tactical urbanism

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December 2008 / World

Twilight in Tacheles

September 12, 2012July 26, 2016 - by Chris Turner

A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on

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Photograph by Wilkosz and Way
June 2012

Calgary Reconsidered

June 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Six truths about the city that’s no longer, simply, Cowtown

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