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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

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

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys won the Matt Cohen Award in 2023, for her contribution to Canadian letters.

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Tonic of Wildness

She went to the woods December 2024
The first thing I was going to do, when I decided to write a novel about Henry David Thoreau, was visit Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where he famously lived and wrote for two years in a small cabin in the woods. Everything was arranged, but the week I was meant to drive down from southeastern…