I spoke with Wong inside Dragon City Mall about her family’s roots in Chinatown, her book, and what she’s created for the Pop ...

Bowness developed in fits and starts, ” writes Valentine Urie in the 2005 local history book Bowness: Our Village in the ...

The free fare zone was baked in from the get-go when the CTrain opened in 1981. There was a brief experiment to extend it to ...

Named for writer and urbanist Jane Jacobs, the idea of the festival is to share stories and conversations about the city while exploring together on foot. (There are more walks today and you can find ...

The weather in Calgary this week has completely knocked me off my bearings and scrambled whatever clear ideas I once had. This being so I won't even try to craft this week's dispatch into any kind of ...

This week, with spring arriving in earnest, I have been doing a lot of walking in my neighbourhood. On Wednesday, I had city council piped into one ear as they worked through the convoluted process of ...

Since the Sprawl launched on September 18, we’ve been busy going to as many candidate forums as possible—particularly ward forums. We livestream them on Facebook (wifi dependent), and when the ...

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. A ...

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. A ...

The Sprawl connects Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. But we can't do it alone. If you value our work, support The Sprawl so we can keep digging into municipal ...

All 14 wards in Calgary have now had election debates. The Sprawl has recorded and livestreamed forums in every single ward. Asad Chishti and I had to organize and run four of them ourselves, but we ...

Candidates who participated: Nickie Brockhoff (The Calgary Party), Andre Chabot (Communities First party) and Mahmoud Mourra (Independent). Absent candidate: Tarlochan Singh Sidhu (Independent). This ...