The year 2025 marks 150 years since the North West Mounted Police established Fort Calgary in 1875. And while Calgary wasn’t ...

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I was upfront with my editor from the outset: “I'm no cowboy.” It was the end of 2009. I had just left my job as a news writer for Fast Forward Weekly, Calgary’s alternative weekly newspaper. I was ...

This story is part of The Sprawl's edition on Calgary's shifting civic identity. We're asking: What is authentic about this place? What is contrived? Where is the line between the two? Sign up for our ...

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Sprawlcast is Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast. Made in collaboration with CJSW 90.9 FM, it’s a show for curious Calgarians who want a deeper understanding of the city they call home. KEVIN LEE: ...

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Sprawlcast is Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast. Made in collaboration with CJSW 90.9 FM, it’s a show for curious Calgarians who want a deeper understanding of the city they call home. FRANCISCO ...

The diminutive wood-frame building, with its stuccoed false front and distinctive sign, was a landmark for thousands of daily motorists on this stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway. Few, if any, ever ...

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JEREMY KLASZUS (HOST): We're going to begin at city hall, but we're going back in time—to 2009. MAYOR NAHEED NENSHI: It's no joke to say this is the most important decision that city council has made ...

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