Graham Thomson is an award-winning Edmonton-based columnist who has covered Alberta politics for more than 30 years, first with the Edmonton Journal and now as a freelancer. Get some gift-giving ...

Anti-carbon tax protesters, like these people waving signs and chanting slogans as they block a lane of the Trans-Canada Highway near Cochrane, Alberta, are winning the day. Photo by Jeff McIntosh ...

Who works: Robert Humble leads a team of seven architects and creatives at the Seattle architecture firm Hybrid Architecture, where he is the founding partner and design principal. What works ...

Stéphane Leman-Langlois and Aurélie Campana are professors at Université Laval. Samuel Tanner is a professor at Université de Montréal. This article was originally published by the Conversation.

Premier David Eby named a new cabinet and made big changes to some ministries. Photo by Chad Hipolito, the Canadian Press. B.C. Premier David Eby appointed a new cabinet Monday that gives several ...

Dr. Ryan Herriot, third from left in a white coat, stands with volunteers at the unsanctioned overdose prevention site at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria. Photo submitted. Teams of doctors say ...

Timothy Snyder’s latest book offers a bracing lens through which to understand our political moment. ‘Freedom is not just an absence of evil,’ he writes, ‘but a presence of good.

Iglika Ivanova is a senior economist at the CCPA-BC and lead author of the Living Wage BC: 2024 Update. Anastasia French is the provincial manager of Living Wage BC. Housing costs have driven up ...

When enlightenment was cool. Detail of The Weimar Courtyard of the Muses, 1860, by Theobald von Oer, depicts famous German poets Friedrich Shiller, at centre, and Goethe, to the right. Image via ...

Richard Powers’ new novel Playground is a fascinating exploration of the ocean, friendship and the nature of change. Photo via Shutterstock. I read Richard Powers’ new novel Playground earlier ...

Guardian Watchmen survey the Great Bear Sea. Photo by Emilee Gilpin, Coastal First Nations. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia, salmon do. After ...

Educator Carolyn Roberts: ‘We need to be able to really see how the system operates.’ Photo by Michele Mateus, Mateus Studios. B.C.’s kindergarten to Grade 12 education system is fully ...