Science, Technology & Environment

Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa

For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta’s vast petroleum reserves have proved a mixed blessing at best. Even the industry’s staunchest defenders have to concede that the laborious extraction of oil from sand has ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands

By Chris Turner

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

By Britt Wray

“To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.” So says the eponymous vivisector in H.G. Wells’s 1896 ... Read More »

September 6, 2017 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Death in the Family

By John Chipman

When the wheels of justice grind slowly, the process can seem interminable and destructive. This is especially true in cases where justice is being miscarried. By the time Tammy Marquardt had been exonerated in the ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move

By Mary Soderstrom

Montreal-based author Mary Soderstrom has set herself a giant task in Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move – one that begins with the first anatomically modern humans leaving Africa 50,000 to ... Read More »

February 8, 2017 | Filed under: History, Science, Technology & Environment

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

By Maude Barlow

With 2016 on track to shatter heat and drought records, the crises of climate change and declining freshwater supplies that have long afflicted the global south are increasingly appearing in Canada, where the seemingly unlimited ... Read More »

October 13, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Bit Rot: stories + essays

By Douglas Coupland

It seems quaint that Douglas Coupland’s latest work should arrive in so prosaic a form as thinly sliced trees bound between slightly thicker-cut trees. After all, the Vancouver visual artist, writer, and designer – now ... Read More »

September 12, 2016 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail

By Jenna Butler

Research is paramount to the development and operation of an off-grid, organic small farm. So says Jenna Butler who, along with her partner, Thomas, in 2006 established Larch Grove Farm near Barrhead in northern Alberta. ... Read More »

January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Science, Technology & Environment

After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians

By Gordon Laxer

Perhaps able to foresee that even the longest federal election campaign in Canadian history would fail to prioritize the serious consequences of climate change, University of Alberta professor emeritus Gordon Laxer has gone ahead and ... Read More »

December 15, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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