2020-2024

More Irrigation, Fewer Farms

Alberta Views, June 2021

Finalist for the 2021-2022 Alberta Magazine Award, Editorial Package: Print

The public is investing almost $1 billion to expand Alberta’s irrigation network. For whose benefit?

Rural Frontiers

NEW TRAIL, AUGUST 2022

Rural communities around the world share the experience of decline. Yet, paradoxically, researchers and other experts will tell you rural areas must play a growing role in their countries’ development

Picking up the Pieces

EDIFY, JANUARY 2022

Winner (Silver) for the 2022-2023 Alberta Magazine Award, Editorial Package

How COVID-19 has fanned the flame of Edmonton's lethal overdose crisis

Book Review: The Observer

Alberta Views, APRIL 2024

Reviewing The Observer, a novel by Marina Endicott

Book Review: A Kid Called Chatter

Alberta Views, JULY 2022

Reviewing A Kid Called Chatter, a novel by Chris Kelly

Book Review: Borderlands

Alberta Views, October 2020

A review of Borderlands by the Calgary photographer Mark Vitaris

Book Review: Rain Comin' Down

ALBERTA VIEWS, MAY 2020

A review of Rain Coming’ Down: Water, Memory and Identity in a Changed World by Robert William Sandford 

2018 - 2019

The High and Lonesome Sound

eighteen bridges, summer 2018

Finalist for the 2018-2019 Alberta Magazine Award, Alberta Story

Selected for Best Canadian Essays 2019, published by Biblioasis

Amid the horror of the opioid crisis, it's clear the rural life is vanishing and there’s no pill to cure the ill. What can we do?

The Life of Pie

Avenue Edmonton, March 2018

Finalist for the 2018-2019 Alberta Magazine Award, Feature Writing: Long

Jonathan Avis had a gift for turning around distressed food businesses. But, after a whirlwind of misfortune, the one business he couldn’t turn around was his own

High Society

Avenue Edmonton, June 2018 (excerpted in Alberta Views, November 2018)

Winner (Gold) of the 2018-2019 Alberta Magazine Award, Service: Lifestyle

How cannabis will change your city – and, maybe, you

Walk a Mile

The Yards, summer 2019

Finalist for the 2019-2020 Alberta Magazine Award, Profile

A blind disability advocate explains how he sees Oliver — and how his neighbourhood sees him

2016 - 2017

The End of the Line

Alberta Venture, March 2016 (EXCERPTED IN ALBERTA VIEWS, JULY/AUGUST 2016)

Amid chronic underfunding, administrative red tape and a breakdown in trust, Alberta First Nations take their fight for safe drinking water to all levels of government 

The Fall of the House of Evans

Alberta Venture, May 2016

Jay and Robert Peers defrauded investors of $80 million, scarring their family's 100-year-old legacy

When in Drought

Alberta Venture, March 2016

Following the irrigation network that feeds the world and defines a province

The Lights on Beacon Hill

Alberta Venture, August 2016

After the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, Fort McMurray reopens for business 

Big Weed Takes Aim

Alberta Venture, April 2016

As marijuana lurches toward legalization, Big Weed targets the little guys

The Forest and the Trees

Alberta Venture, JULY 2016

Does the expiration of the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber agreement spell the end of Alberta’s forestry industry?

On Tailings, Alberta’s Last Chance to Clean up its Act

Alberta Venture, December 2016

Oil sands operators say they’ve made the reclamation of tailings ponds a key tenet of their social responsibility mandate. They haven’t

From ‘Temporary’ Albertans to Permanent

ALBERTA VEnture, FEBRUARY 2017

These changes will benefit Alberta, and it’s worth remembering how many were fought for and won by migrant-worker coalitions and non-profits

Alberta’s Case for Free Movement

Alberta Venture, December 2016

Anti-immigration rhetoric is suddenly more dangerous, and more prevalent, than ever

Living the Bust

Alberta Venture, February 2016

You’ve seen the numbers – now, hear from those rebuilding their lives after losing their oil-and-gas sector jobs

2015

And They're Off!

Alberta Venture, September 2015

Century Downs aims to revive Alberta's horse racing industry. Is it a safe bet?

Railroaded

Alberta Venture, December 2015

The harvest of 2013 should have been a windfall for prairie farmers. Instead, the grain industry lost billions. Farmers blame the railways – and they’re banding together to change the rules

The Dry Sell

Alberta Venture, September 28, 2015

As harvest rolls in, so do publicly funded insurance payments to drought-stricken farmers. But do the payments actually mitigate the drought's impact? Or is it a billion-dollar solution to the wrong problem?

Waiting for a Downpour

Alberta Venture, July 15, 2015

The recent drought has impacted farmers’ pastures and crops to the point of emergency. Is this a bad year or the new normal?

Saving Sangudo

Alberta Venture, February 2015

How one town raised the capital to invest in – and save – the local abattoir