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Photograph by Naomi Harris
November 2013

There’s More to Fort McMurray than Oil

November 16, 2013September 21, 2021 - by Taras Grescoe

How the town plans to become a global leader in sustainable living

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Photograph courtesy of the Edmonton Journal
Environment / May 2013

Tinker, Tailings

April 25, 2013July 17, 2019 - by Geoff Dembicki

After forty years, an Alberta inventor still thinks he can clean up the oil sands

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Photograph by Johann Wall
April 2013

Her Way

March 11, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Katherine Ashenburg

Alberta premier Alison Redford doesn’t care if you call her a closet Liberal or a Red Tory. She just wants to get things done

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March 2013

Oh, Rats!

February 4, 2013July 25, 2016 - by Heather Cleland

Alberta re-enlists in the war against a whiskered invader

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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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Media / November 2012

Mr. Irresistible

October 15, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Jeff Nield

A history of Ezra Levant’s campaign for hearts and minds

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Photograph by Curtis Way
Politics / September 2012

A New Politics?

September 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

Alberta strategist Stephen Carter takes the high road to victory

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June 2012 / Society

Yee-f***ing-haw

June 12, 2012May 1, 2017 - by The Walrus

The University of Calgary’s Gauntlet newspaper on the Calgary Stampede, circa 1993

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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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Photograph by Randy Fiedler, the Red Deer Advocate/The Canadian Press
March 2012 / Politics

Wild Card

March 12, 2012October 16, 2019 - by Jen Gerson

Wildrose leader Danielle Smith has poised herself as a politician of principle. But can she govern?

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