The hand count is due to the UCP's sweeping 2024 reforms to municipal elections in Alberta which, in addition to introducing ...

Imagine, if you will, that your elected leaders woke up one morning and suddenly recognized with incredible clarity the significance of the existential climate crisis before us. Imagine that, after a ...

Specifically, blanket rezoning came up. In May 2024, council voted 9 - 6 to make R-CG the default zoning in established ...

Sprawlcast is Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast. Made in collaboration with CJSW 90.9 FM, it’s a show for curious Calgarians who want a deeper understanding of the city they call home. COUNCILLOR ...

Sprawlcast is Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast. Made in collaboration with CJSW 90.9 FM, it’s a show for curious Calgarians who want a deeper understanding of the city they call home. KEVIN LEE: ...

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Sprawlcast is a collaboration between CJSW 90.9 FM and The Sprawl. It's a show for curious Calgarians who want more than the daily news grind. A full transcript of the episode is below. AMY SIDE: I ...

These are just a few of the headlines that accompanied the first major wave of Black settlers to Alberta in early 1900s. This wave, mostly farmers from the United States, came to Alberta due to ...

In January, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney held a press conference and called for economic sanctions against the United States. That bit of bluster got some attention. But the real headline was that ...

I was upfront with my editor from the outset: “I'm no cowboy.” It was the end of 2009. I had just left my job as a news writer for Fast Forward Weekly, Calgary’s alternative weekly newspaper. I was ...

“Canada, let’s talk about racism” is a statement that, a month ago, would have been met with indifference, disinterest and comments like “racism isn’t a problem in Canada.” But most racialized ...