Book Review: The Pipestone Wolves
Link: REVIEW – THE PIPESTONE WOLVES: THE RISE AND FALL OF A WOLF FAMILY A review of Gunter Boch’s The Pipestone Wolves, the result of Boch’s exhaustive observation of a wolf pack that moved into the Bow Valley in 2008. The book is part biography of the compelling, but ultimately doomed, wolf family, as well as an…
Don’t Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You
Link: Don’t Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You A profile of performance artist Kay Burns, and her alter-ego Iris Taylor. The piece explores Burns’ history, resurrecting the satirical Flat Earth Society of Canada, her upcoming Flat Earth Museum exhibition, and using her Taylor persona to highlight the deference to authority and decline of critical thinking…
How Google Captured El Capitan
Link: How Google Captured El Capitan Through Alex Honnold’s Eyes A feature on the momentous task of mapping out of the Nose, the technical climbing route and famous face of El Capitan in Yosemite. The piece follows Google project manager Sandy Russell’s championing of the trek, the technical challenges of mixing high-tech and high altitudes, as…
HUB Mall Shootings
LINK: The Hub Mall Shootings Lead web writer covering story after a security guard shoots four of his co-workers during a robbery and sparks an international manhunt. Original reporting, combined with files from colleagues in radio and television. Also added value-added content. Also covered Travis Baumgartner’s eventual arrest and arraignment.
Leaders clash over pipeline debate
LINK: Leaders clash over pipelines during 1st election debate Alberta’s energy exports sharply divided the leaders of Canada’s federal parties in the first debate of the election. Story contains reporting from the night of the debate, put into context by deep knowledge of energy issues. (Photo: Pipeline, by Jason Woodhead/Flickr)