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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Chris Attrell

Chris Attrell photographed Grain Elevators: Beacons of the Prairies.

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Chris Attrell

Tower Records

Shooting the prairie giants May 2022
In 1980, when I was nine, my family moved from Calgary to Spruce Grove, just west of Edmonton. The small city still had a row of grain elevators, which from a distance almost resembled the Gothic cathedrals of Europe. Up close, they were so large and so colourful — and they immediately fascinated me. That same…