Western Alienation Should Not Mean Separation Alberta’s separatist movement is built on a real grievance and a terrible solution. No serious observer can deny that many Albertans feel alienated from Ottawa. For decades, the province has argued that federal governments have benefited from Alberta’s energy wealth while constraining its economic future through environmental regulation, pipeline […]
Calgary’s Eritrean community is taking bold steps to confront a mental-health crisis that has weighed heavily on newcomers for years. In a city where more than 5,000 Eritreans are rebuilding their lives, community leaders are uniting around a simple but powerful goal: bring an Eritrean clinical psychologist to Calgary, someone who speaks their language, understands […]
By Andy Knight The recent US military strike in Caribbean waters, which killed three alleged narcotics traffickers, raises serious concerns that U.S. president Donald Trump is engaged in extrajudicial murder which is a blatant violation of international law. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, such actions are “unacceptable” and […]
Black Canadians face significant barriers in accessing mental health services, which continue to impede their well-being. These barriers include the high cost of care, a long history of systemic racism and discrimination in healthcare, and personal experiences of racial bias within the system. Additionally, there is a notable lack of culturally representative and responsive mental […]
Black Prairies celebrates over a century of Black and African-Canadian cultural contributions in the Prairie provinces, spanning from the 1920s to the present, with a special emphasis on lens-based media. The exhibition features a blend of newly commissioned contemporary artworks, as well as archival pieces including original glass plate negatives by early 20th-century Black Manitoban […]
The restoration of a historic cemetery in Alberta has achieved a significant milestone. On July 12, permanent headstones were installed at Bethel Baptist Cemetery near Barrhead, Alta. This cemetery stands as a poignant reminder of the Black pioneer community of Campsie, a group whose legacy endures in the region. Located approximately 120 kilometers northwest of […]
Feature In 1909, when segregation laws and the Ku Klux Klan were terrorising the southern United States, a group of 160 African-American homesteaders travelled north to Alberta to find freedom and opportunity. These pioneers settled the land, creating an African-American outpost in the heart of Canada’s prairies. By 1911, almost a thousand had made the […]
Suzette Mayr has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Calgary-born and of German and Bahamian background, Mayr received the honour for her novel “The Sleeping Car Porter.” “I think today I’m officially done with my feelings of impostor syndrome as a writer,” Mayr told the crowd assembled at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. “The […]
An Alberta father is in Winnipeg this weekend as a national search for a stem cell match for his two-year-old son with cancer continues — and he’s raising awareness about the desperate need for Black stem cell donors along the way. Ezra Marfo was born in Lac La Biche, Alta., in 2020 and was […]
A new online exhibit aims to demonstrate how learning Black history is essential to understanding the formation of Alberta. The new exhibit by Edmonton City as Museum Project explores the formation of Alberta’s Black communities from the late 1800s to the early 1970s. “What I want people to take away is the activism, the […]
