HARRY HILLER: The Deerfoot divide is an interesting reference of course to the fact that the Deerfoot Trail is a spine that ...

On weekends, The Sprawl sends out an email newsletter. Subscribe here so you don't miss a dispatch! Here is this week's edition. It used to be that if you were on Calgary city council, it was ...

On weekends, The Sprawl sends out an email newsletter. Subscribe here so you don't miss a dispatch! Here is this week's edition. Can you identify Bayview on a map of Calgary? I couldn't until recently ...

After two back-to-back Sprawl editions, we're packing up our tables and chairs and going away for a bit, as per the Sprawl Manifesto. We began 2019 with The 2044 Edition, running a pop-up newsroom out ...

The Sprawl’s pop-up press is an all-ages, kid-friendly letterpress experience—and an ongoing experiment in community engagement. It started in the summer of 2023, when Meta blocked all news on ...

But with a little help from others, they are restored and see the world anew. 'Tis the season for last-minute epiphanies, after all. So when Sam Hester emailed me on Monday to suggest a last-minute ...

Sam Hester is a Calgary-based graphic recorder and longtime indie comics creator. Her recent TED Talk, How Comic Strips Create Better Health Care, has been viewed more than a million times. The Sprawl ...

On weekends, The Sprawl sends out an email newsletter called Saturday Morning Sprawl. You can subscribe here. Here is this week's dispatch—the first of 2022. With my kids home from school, I spent a ...

In the last Sprawlcast, I spoke with Jared Wesley about political culture in this province. Wesley is a University of Alberta political scientist who leads an initiative called the Common Ground ...

Note to readers: This essay discusses sexual assault. When I first read about how the sexual assault allegations against Calgary city councillor Sean Chu were handled, I wasn’t surprised. Learning ...

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