How to whip up a minority crowd
Weak applause met news of a minority Conservative government at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary. What it needed was a...
Nicholas Köhler
Nicholas Köhler is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean’s, the South China Morning Post and The Christian Science Monitor, among other places. He has reported from around the world, including New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, northeast Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and more recently from Myanmar as it lurched toward democracy. You can reach him at nick@nicholaskohler.com.
The power of television
Calgarians are normally a staid bunch.
They school them young, those Conservatives
Here at the Telus Convention Centre, four photojournalism students from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology--SAIT to you...
The party’s over
The Telus Convention Centre, site of the Stephen Harper party tonight, is no Guvernment. Find another wonderful substance, would...
The popcorn spread
The rest of us may be watching events unfold this evening from our couches, which vary in comfiness. The Harper family will be...
The hangar
The Telus Convention Centre, in downtown Calgary, is a vast hangar of a place, with, today, a swirling swathe of electric blue...
Le mot juste... in Calgary
Who knew Stephen Harper would use the occasion of voting in Calgary to practice his French... He tells us that voting is a duty of...
"I had a good nights sleep"
Stephen Harper arrives at Harold Panabaker Junior High to vote and says of his dodo that it was "good." Can we take that at face...
Waiting for Harpot
The first cool wind of the season is cutting through a crowd of reporters outside Harold Panabaker Junior High School, in the...
Delinda of the Bow Valley Pack 2003-2008
Originally from the backcountry, she had a knack for people that helped save the Bow Valley wolves