OPINION

I’m not going to lie, when I first started walking through Calgary’s new Central Library on Tuesday, I started to tear up. For a kid who didn’t play hockey growing up, the public library where […]

It’s a different kind of trickle-down economics. This is the kind of subtle government decision making that has little to no downside, but an enormous upside. It’s not carbon tax nor is it minimum wage. […]

The likelihood of the City being able to keep the lid on potential peripheral Olympic costs was predictably slim. We would even say those odds were virtually zero. Now, with an Olympics plebiscite roughly six […]

I’m a freelance writer. Some months are great for work, others… crickets. I knew when I decided to make a career change and go into journalism that I was likely also committing myself to a […]

No one thinks the Saddledome is state-of-the-art. Its position at the base of our skyline triggers not pride, but nostalgia. It won’t hold the concerts we want to see, and it apparently doesn’t much inspire […]

Allow me to let you in on a secret. You’ve been duped. The discussion around Calgary’s public art program has been swirling for years now. We’ve talked about the types of art, the location of […]

Calgary is changing, and boy is it an exciting time! The evolution of Calgary’s economy is part of the larger narrative that our city is growing, innovating and in many ways just beginning the maturing […]