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Politics

How Naheed Nenshi’s Tense Re-election Forces Us to Confront Canadian Racism

October 18, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Jeremy Klaszus

The world’s best mayor won a third term this week—but we should pay more attention to how he almost lost

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Photograph by The Canadian Press /Jeff McIntosh
Arts & Culture

Lessons From Calgary’s Public Art Scandal

August 29, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Gillian Turnbull

What the Bowfort Towers can teach us about urban identity-making

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January/February 2016 / Memoir

House of Cards

December 22, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Shelley Youngblut

Looking for a father in the one place I swore I’d never go

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Aerial photo of houses in a field
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

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Photograph by Wilkosz and Way
Feature / 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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December 2005/January 2006 / Feature

A Gentle Revolution

December 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Monte Paulsen

All they wanted was to slow the pace of development in their territory. But by the time their 254-day sit-in concluded, the elders had reshaped the Tahltan Nation

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Cover of the Mar/Apr issue of The Walrus magazine. Mar/Apr 2021

Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, an Indigenous-led camp for unhoused people in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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