HARRY HILLER: The Deerfoot divide is an interesting reference of course to the fact that the Deerfoot Trail is a spine that ...

On weekends, The Sprawl sends out an email newsletter. Subscribe here so you don't miss a dispatch! Here is this week's edition. It used to be that if you were on Calgary city council, it was ...

On weekends, The Sprawl sends out an email newsletter. Subscribe here so you don't miss a dispatch! Here is this week's edition. Can you identify Bayview on a map of Calgary? I couldn't until recently ...

Curious Calgary is a mini-comics series by Sam Hester that can be read online—and/or printed at home and folded into a zine! The entire comic fits onto a single page of 8 ½ by 11 paper. All you need ...

The Sprawl’s pop-up press is an all-ages, kid-friendly letterpress experience—and an ongoing experiment in community engagement. It started in the summer of 2023, when Meta blocked all news on ...

But with a little help from others, they are restored and see the world anew. 'Tis the season for last-minute epiphanies, after all. So when Sam Hester emailed me on Monday to suggest a last-minute ...

Editor's note: The Sprawl is taking a pause until late September. You can read more about this here. It's rooted in one of our original (but forgotten!) principles: “In a world of noise, we embrace ...

Sam Hester is a Calgary-based graphic recorder and longtime indie comics creator. Her recent TED Talk, How Comic Strips Create Better Health Care, has been viewed more than a million times. The Sprawl ...

Sam Hester is a Calgary-based graphic recorder and longtime indie comics creator. Her recent TED Talk, How Comic Strips Create Better Health Care, has been viewed more than a million times. The Sprawl ...

In the last Sprawlcast, I spoke with Jared Wesley about political culture in this province. Wesley is a University of Alberta political scientist who leads an initiative called the Common Ground ...

Note to readers: This essay discusses sexual assault. When I first read about how the sexual assault allegations against Calgary city councillor Sean Chu were handled, I wasn’t surprised. Learning ...