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IT'S FEBRUARY, MINUS 40. I'M ON WINTER PACK ICE with Hans Aronsen, a hunter from Resolute Bay. It's too cold to talk--wind chill runs colder than minus 70--so all we [...]

The political issues surrounding the Mackenzie pipeline in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, are discussed.

A RED CAMARO TEARS ALONG THE POTHOLED MAIN street of Tent City, leaving clouds of dirt and screaming residents. It is 10 a.m. and the crack dealers have already done [...]

AS A SNOW SQUALL BLOWS IN FROM GREENLAND, a crowd huddles inside the Iqaluit Municipal Arena while the skaters wait for the puck to drop. It's the start of the [...]

Inusiq Shoo has been wandering the streets for months. He passes his days traversing Iqaluit's small downtown core, from the Arctic College cafeteria to the local hunter's lodge and several [...]

EARLY IN HIS BID FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NEWLY NAMED CANADIAN Alliance party last March, Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day argued he was a democrat at heart. 'My social policy [...]

I'M SITTING IN A CALGARY COURTROOM looking on with disbelief at what is happening. No fewer than six lawyers are bickering back and forth, representing three different parties. There's oil [...]

JUDGE JOHN REILLY WANTED TO EXPOSE WRONGDOING ON THE STONEY RESERVE. WHAT HE DIDN'T REALIZE WAS THAT POWERFUL FORCES - IN OTTAWA, IN EDMONTON, AND IN THE BAND ITSELF - […]

During its first decade, the Reform Party of Canada endured no end of humiliation. People laughed at its ambitious plans to invade Ottawa and purify Canada's Babylon-by-the-Rideau. Jokes about the [...]

SCENES FROM THE CURIOUS CRUSADE OF DAVID ORCHARD, THE PRAIRIE POPULIST WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE TORIES FROM THEMSELVES It's the night before the membership deadline: September 28, 1998. Last […]

At 10 p.m. on January 12, 1995, Ed Bianchi heard a knock on the door of his apartment. Before him stood a stranger who looked like 'George from Seinfeld,' as [...]

When my young family finally decided to leave Toronto, my home of 11 years, friends thought we were crazy to abandon the one North American metropolis that seemed to have [...]

Alberta's rapidly expanding oil mines may be the largest and messiest industrial projects Canadian history IT'S MIDNIGHT on the bank of the Athabasca River as Trish Darling manoeuvres her Haulpak [...]

THE PEOPLE OF A CLOSE-KNIT B.C. COMPANY TOWN STRUGGLE WITH THE PAIN OF A PARADISE LOST IT IS MID-MORNING in the depths of the powerhouse buried within a mountain of [...]

Inside the little town that nurtured a would-be prime minister -- and some of the most notorious hate-mongers in Canada On the surface, Bentley looks a little like a set [...]

IT'S EASY TO DESPAIR of politics in the 21st century. We seem cursed with high recurrence: on issues like climate change, poverty, and democracy, we experience the same problems, the [...]

WHEN SUPPORT FOR THE NEW DEMOCRATIC Party hit all-time lows, I was invited to a meeting with Howard Hampton, Ontario's NDP leader. It was 1999 and Mike Harris was running [...]

OLD MAN ON HIS BACK Portrait of a Prairie Landscape By Sharon Butala; photography by Courtney Milne HarperCollins and the Nature Conservancy of Canada 80 pp., $39.95 hardcover TO THE [...]

IT WAS WITH CONSIDERABLE DISCOMFORT THAT I BOUGHT MY FIRST car a few months ago. I've maintained a driver's license for nearly 18 years but never owned what is commonly [...]

The article focuses on the economic and social conditions in Alberta. The country experiences some of the fastest-growing rates of homelessness totaling 3, 436 people in 2006. It is a place where working people are forced to choose between food and shelter on a regular basis. It has shown an ability to spend on homelessness with high-cost, low-field strategies. Deep poverty is partially the result of negligent provincial policy which some advocates.

Focuses on the environmental impact of two oil sands plants in Alberta. Production of the industrial projects of Suncor Energy Inc. and Syncrude Canada Ltd.; Failure in curbing gas emissions; Issues about land reclamation; Extent of air pollution.

Reports on the closure of Kemano, a company town built by Alcan to house its hydroelectric plant workers in Mount DuBose, British Columbia. Characteristics of the Kemano community; List of engineering feats encompassed by the Alcan hydro-expansion project; Controversy governing Kemano's hydroelectric plant; Reaction of the community on its closure; Factors that contributed to Kemano's demise. INSET: Cheslatta scars still need healing.

Analyzes the climate change occurrence in Nunavut, Northwest Territories. Factors contributing to climatic changes; Impact of the changes on lifestyle and livelihood of the Natives; Scientific explanation for climatic changes occurrence.

Presents an article on David Laird, the first Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, and discusses the Treaty 7 concerning the Indians in Canada. Difficulties faced by the Plains Indians during the time of negotiations regarding the treaty; Contributions of Laird to Canada.

Presents the experiences of the author in deciding to move away with his family from Toronto, Ontario. Idea that conditions in the city have deteriorated; Public services in the city; Cost of housing in the city; Role of urbanization in Canada; Decision of the author to move to Calgary, Alberta.

Reports on the publishing partnership between Arsenal Pulp Press and Mercury Press for the launch of novel 'Jane' in Canada. Difficulty of author Judy MacDonald in choosing between the publishers; Collaboration between the two presses on past projects; Arrangement on the problem with the International Standard Book Numbers.

Focuses on the publication of branded business books in Canada. Laaunching of the book 'Managing Your Money'; Implication of branded book partnership for the economies of scale; Impact of brand-name affiliations on sales.