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Papa Pancho

Reforms, contradictions, and the Church

All Over the Map

In riding politics, the only common factor seems to be idiosyncrasy

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

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…