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Politics

The Legacy of Jim Prentice

October 14, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Lorne Gunter

Remembering a self-made man who spent seven years in the coal mines

Photograph by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

December 2015 / Memoir

The Roughneck Diaries

November 25, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Remembering when the oil sands were young

Politics

Cowtown Blues

October 2, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Mark Migotti

Will Kent Hehr be the first Liberal MP elected in Calgary since Trudeaumania?

Politics

Green Peace River

September 24, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Andrea Bennett

Liz Biggar divided her oil-and-gas town. Now she’s running for election

Feature / September 2015 / The Walrus True Crime

Dr. Shock

September 19, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Richard Poplak

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Alberta

Business / July/August 2015

Money Pit

June 18, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jeff Rubin

Who’s on the hook if low energy prices shut down the oil sands?

June 2015 / Society

The Donair Wars

May 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Omar Mouallem

Halifax’s favourite street meat conquers Alberta

January/February 2015 / Justice

No Means No

December 17, 2014April 13, 2020 - by The Walrus

From a 1999 Supreme Court ruling on sexual consent

December 2014 / Technology

Need for Speed

December 1, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Simon Liem

An Alberta town becomes an unlikely Internet innovator

Feature / 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