For your health
Living in a country where obesity rates are on the rise—one in four Canadian adults are clinically obese, according to the Canadian Obesity Network—the need to exercise has never been greater. In Edm...
Author Archives: Alana Willerton
Rainbow families
In a moment that seemed straight out of the 1950s, a Calgary fertility doctor announced last week that he doesn’t believe in facilitating the creation of “rainbow families.” The unf...
Rejecting rape and violence
When Melanie Lintott used to sit in the University LRT station, she would watch as people’s attention shifted from the phone in their hands to a poster along the station walls. The poster, part...
The farm in the city
For Janelle Herbert, running a farm in Edmonton has always been about more than just growing vegetables and making a profit. As the owner and operator of Riverbend Gardens, she’s also intereste...
Essay fail
Who should we trust more to mark Alberta students’ Grade 12 diploma essays: a seasoned teacher or a computer program? A recent study conducted by LightSide, a Pennsylvania company developing co...
Back to the bridge
Sometimes it feels like Edmonton just can’t leave the High Level Bridge alone. Take, for instance, the Great Divide Waterfall, which sprang from the side of the bridge for almost 30 years—spout...
That small town spirit
When Lynn Wannop put a gay-pride sticker on the door of her café in Jasper six years ago, she had no idea what kind of impact it would have. A board member of HIV West Yellowhead at the time, a Jaspe...
Pride waves high
When the Olympic Games began almost two weeks ago, tensions were high. The implementation of an anti-gay law by President Vladimir Putin had caused months of anger leading up to the Games, and as ath...
Those dark alleys
“Alleys aren’t meant for people to walk down. Those are meant for vehicles and for people to put their garbage out.” In the last week, this statement, uttered by Edmonton Police Ser...
Snow tweeters
There are few things Edmontonians like less than snow. They like whining about it, they like criticizing the way the city deals with it, and lately, they seem to like tweeting to the mayor about it. ...