BY: DANIEL KORN Since April 2009, the government of Medicine Hat—a city in Alberta—has instituted a Housing First solution to homelessness, which provides subsidized, permanent housing for the homeless. Out of the 1,000 homeless individuals that inhabit the city, 885…
Nature’s most beautiful skating rink is also dangerously flammable (Photos)
BY: SINEAD MULHERN The glassy ice surfaces of Banff National Park’s small lakes are a vision. Peer down at the solid dark mass stretched out in front of you and take in a scene that may look like hundreds of…
Alberta national park ‘at risk’
By: Sinead Mulhern The Mikisew Cree has just put in a request that Wood Buffalo Park, a northern Alberta national park, be classified as an ‘at risk’ area. The park is currently classified as a World Heritage site because it’s…
The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline is a domestic project with global consequences
BY: TYLER FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY: CONNOR BRIAN Economy is not the opposite of environment. Profit is not synonymous with prosperity. Our idea of progress is its definition. The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was approved June 17th 2014, marking the beginning of the…