A Saskatchewan town’s emergency pop-up mayor
Bryan Matheson took up an interesting part-time job after the provincial government called asking for a favour: Could he become mayor of Craik, Sask. for a little while?
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Jason Markusoff
Jason Markusoff writes about Alberta, from the stubbornly flat parts to the magnificently bumpy bits. He has lived in Edmonton and (currently) Calgary, and spent 12 years reporting for the cities’ largest newspapers.
The pandemic has proven that the individual is not supreme
Our decades-long love affair with rugged independence has suddenly fallen away as populations throughout the democratic world surrendered individual liberties for the sake of the collective
Canoeist Haley Daniels and her father, Kimberly, have blazed separate trails—together
At the Tokyo Summer Games next year, Haley and her dad Kimberly could make history. Haley as potentially part of the first group of female Olympic canoeists and her dad as among the first transgender officials.
The brick-wall Senate that Biden faces if he wins
Democrat dreams of wielding triple-threat power in Washington are all but dashed
’A big honkin’ win:’ Six takeaways from the Saskatchewan election
Canada has a new one-party province, the NDP’s struggles go on and other results of voting day on the Prairie
Taking stock of those 47 years of Joe Biden that Trump keeps mentioning
The incumbent keeps saying he did more in 47 months. As ever, the factual record differs.
This racist graffiti leaves a hateful impression—even if it’s removed
Indigenous rock art can be found on thousands of cliffs and rock faces. Vandalism of these traditional paintings is so common that a handful of North American archaeologists specialize in removing graffiti from them.
Ben Harper, son of Stephen, has been wetting his political feet in Alberta
The 24-year-old is working in the office of Premier Jason Kenney, after holding a couple of different roles in the UCP government
’Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking:’ Five takeaways from the U.S. VP debate
Kamala Harris combined assertiveness and ease, but both she and Mike Pence wriggled out of key questions. It was all so blessedly normal.
There’s been no flood of Americans heading north. Well, not U.S. citizens at least.
But a lot more people who came legally to the U.S. from other countries have fled Trump’s America, making Canada their home