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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

George Melnyk

George Melnyk teaches Canadian studies and film studies at the University of Calgary.

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George Melnyk

A Broken Head

Robotic reveries blur reality and fantasy July–August 2009
When s a murder not a murder? When is a patricide not a patricide? When is Satan involved and when is God? These are some of the questions that Lee Gowan puts before us as he unwinds his first-person account narrated by a janitor reflecting on his upbringing in small-town Saskatchewan and the events that drove him to…

The Wisdom of Bones

A novel hunts fossils and finds the human heart October 2007
Bone sharp is a 19th-century term used to describe paleontologists. Its use in the title of Edmonton writer and poet Tim Bowling’s third novel is both a descriptor for Charles H. Sternberg (1850–1943), its fossil-hunting protagonist, and a metaphor for the emotional dramas that unfold in the story. Sternberg was an American who searched for dinosaur fossils in Alberta during the early part of the 20th…