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AFTER WORKING IN Calgary for several years, Nancy Parsloe decided she wanted to live in a smaller centre. In 1998, she went on a driving tour of nearby towns and [...]

CONSIDER IT one long tease. For over three hours after pulling out of Edmonton on a hot, dry summer's morning, we pass through flat bush country as the train known [...]

DAVE PRICE takes a visitor for a driving tour of just part of Sunterra Enterprises, a multi-million-dollar farming, food processing and retail conglomerate which he oversees along with four younger [...]

OK, so it's not exactly Hollywood's A-list. Body & Soul, a new prime- time American medical drama that just began shooting in Saskatoon, features Peter Strauss (best known for portraying [...]

THEY'RE HOME TO eight out of 10 Canadians. They're the country's economic engine and a source of national pride. Yet they are arguably the least understood, least financed and least [...]

For documentary filmmaker and Calgary native Sally Clark, an epiphany about cowgirl culture came in, of all places, New York City. A sibling, visiting Clark where she has lived since [...]

ROD WARREN REMEMBERS vividly the first time he competed professionally at the Calgary Stampede. It was 1989 and Warren, a 21-year-old greenhorn from the northern Alberta community of Valleyview, found [...]

AT A CALGARY HOSPITAL on Christmas Eve, 1986, a doctor gave Christine Wandzura the sort of news every parent dreads. Her five-year-old son, Derek, had a cancerous brain tumour which [...]

THEY WERE ROMANTICS, idealists and Canadian nationalists before such a notion existed. And while the founding members of the Group of Seven painters were all based in Toronto, their vision [...]

'A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle.' -- Mao Zedong [...]

At the age of 14, Robert Teskey was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (better known as juvenile diabetes), a condition which normally comes with an automatic life sentence of insulin [...]

As predictable as that first inadvertent sunburn, a sure sign of Canadian summer is the annual dispatch detailing Winnipeg's latest mosquito scourge. The national media, having ignored the Manitoba capital [...]

Stephen Legault is paid to lobby on behalf of the environment, but when it comes to Alberta's spectacular Kananaskis Country, one suspects he would gladly do it for free. Legault, [...]

When people think of the Canadian Rockies, their minds turn naturally enough to Banff and Jasper National Parks, which together draw more than six million visitors a year. The railway [...]

For a quarter of a century, Reginald Bibby has been Canada's foremost tracker of religious trends, conducting national surveys every five years and writing a series of best-selling books summing [...]

What a long strange trip it's been -- The Grateful Dead While there may not be many Deadheads among the straitlaced rank-and- file of the Canadian Alliance, the psychedelic-era musicians [...]

CHRIS BROOKS At a stage in life when many people are coasting towards retirement, Dr. Chris Brooks, 63, faces challenges that would tax a man half his age. Four years [...]

Consider it a duel among doomsayers. Business critics and some provincial premiers maintain that if Canada ratifies the Kyoto Protocol -- the international agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse emissions widely [...]

They seemed to emerge from nowhere. Hockey louts in minivans: moms and pops and gap-toothed kiddies with eyes as wide as toonies, cruising the downtown streets, waving flags and blowing [...]

In the opening episode of Tom Stone, RCMP Cpl. Marina Di Luzio learns over dinner at a posh Toronto restaurant that she is being reassigned to Calgary. 'You know,' she [...]

In 2001, more than $35 billion in Canadian oil and gas assets fell into American hands through a series of corporate takeovers, reigniting controversy over the level of foreign ownership [...]

Few people actually dare to come out and say, 'I'm from Alberta.' The very admission is a social gaffe. Albertans are regarded as creatures from the swamp, Neanderthals, figures of [...]

To appreciate the $174-million synchrotron project now under construction at the University of Saskatchewan, it helps to think big - - and then, to think very, very small. The building [...]

Attending public school in the northern community of Smithers, B.C., Warner and Patricia Naziel endured almost daily lessons in racism. The brother and sister, members of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, [...]

On the Calgary set of Agent of Influence, Christopher Plummer is a study in contrasts. In the film, airing on CTV in the spring of 2002, Plummer plays John Watkins, [...]

On a sun-drenched morning in downtown Calgary, Frances Wright gently touches the larger-than-life bronze statues of five women as if they were beloved family members. These statues, along with an [...]

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, it was not uncommon for Canadian pundits to declare, 'We are all Americans now.' As [...]

All you need is love. -- The Beatles, 1967 Once upon a time, it was that simple. Or was it? When John Lennon first sang those lyrics, Vietnam was at [...]

It's every mountain climber's nightmare, and one that has haunted Rick Ridgeway for more than two decades. On Oct. 13, 1980, Ridgeway and his climbing companions were caught in a [...]

Fear, it seems, knows no boundaries. It crosses borders on little cat feet, a whispered threat here, a tainted letter there. And last week, Canada -- we're at war, don't [...]

Canada is a country of displaced peoples. Whether Scottish Highlanders cruelly expelled from their homeland in the 18th century, impoverished Irish farmers fleeing famine in the 1840s, or, more recently, [...]

It's dark in here, very dark. We have descended only a short distance into Rat's Nest Cave, so named for the long-tailed, odoriferous creatures that like to nest near the [...]

Edmonton isn't the end of the world -- but you can see it from there -- Ralph Klein, then mayor of Calgary, in a 1988 speech That's not the sort [...]

For 50 weeks of the year, this is a buttoned-down, workaholic city. In suburbia, the electronic garage doors start clicking open at 6 a.m., dispatching the office warriors. For many, [...]

Brian Kooyman smiles and shakes his head in amazement. The University of Calgary archeologist has just pointed out two sets of woolly mammoth tracks perfectly preserved in the sands of [...]

Sixty-one years after the team officially disbanded, the ranks of the Edmonton Grads -- perhaps the most successful squad in the history of Canadian sport -- are growing precariously thin. [...]

OK, so it's official: the National Energy Program -- the dreaded Frankenstein that stalked the land for five years in the 1980s -- is well and truly dead. The NEP's [...]

On the landing leading to Holger Petersen's home office, there is, among much other music memorabilia, a framed photograph of the legendary American record producer Jerry Wexler. It bears a [...]

With obvious pride, Dan Evans shows off some of his Web magic. Evans, a senior vice-president with Calgary-based Critical Mass Inc., specializes in designing highly personalized Web sites for a [...]

On a bright spring day in Toronto, a weather-beaten candy wrapper blew silently across the schoolyard at Valley Park Middle School, disappearing into piles of trash. The place was a [...]

When Phyllis Cardinal was a junior-high student in Edmonton, one of her teachers made a blunt assessment of her future prospects. 'He told me I would never make much of [...]

Call him a method writer. For his new novel, Salamander, which is largely set in 18th-century Europe, Edmonton author Thomas Wharton immersed himself in the culture and trappings of the [...]

The lucky ones leave this world a little richer than it was when they arrived. Bruno Engler, who died on March 23 at the age of 85, was such a [...]

In Canada's Teens: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow, Reginald Bibby confirms what many see as one of the most disturbing trends in teen life: the tendency for girls to suffer from [...]

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.-- Roman scholar and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Reginald Bibby smiles when he's read [...]

When Reginald Bibby accepted a teaching position at the University of Lethbridge in 1975, he was concerned he might become just another invisible academic at a relatively small institution. He [...]

When Alberta Premier Ralph Klein called a provincial election last month, Calgary Sun columnist Rick Bell responded with a yawn. 'The suspense is so slight,' wrote Bell, 'it's like covering [...]

Art Price spent much of his adult life in the upper echelons of Alberta's so-called Old Economy. Among other things, Price, 49, served for nine years as president and chief [...]