Politics Featured The Farkas Era: Governing in Crisis
Jeromy Farkas won the mayoralty by 581 votes. That's fewer people than can fit in the lobby of the Jubilee Auditorium. It's the kind of margin that makes political operatives reach for the antacids...
News The Rezoning War
On March 23, 2026, Calgary City Council will hold a public hearing that is, technically, about land use policy. In practice, it's a referendum on what kind of city this is becoming — and whether the...
Politics Who's Really Raising Your Taxes?
The city's 2026 property tax increase works out to approximately $4.50 per month. The province's education property tax increase adds roughly $28 per month. One gets the headlines. The other gets the blame.
Culture TRUCK Is Burning
The statement acknowledged 'serious mismanagement' spanning several years. CRA charitable status had been lost. Canada Council placed TRUCK on 'Concerned Status.' In the Canadian arts sector, this is the equivalent of screaming.
Culture Six Years Without Glenbow
The Glenbow Museum closed its doors in August 2021 for a transformational renovation. The current timeline suggests 2027. What fills the vacuum is nothing. And nothing, over six years, becomes normal.
News The $860-Million Bet
Calgary is simultaneously constructing a $1.22-billion arena and a $660-million performing arts centre transformation. If ambition were currency, this city would be solvent. It isn't, and the math is starting to show.
Culture Quiet Structural Revolution
Calgary is the first municipality in Canada to employ an all-Indigenous team of arts professionals dedicated to public art. Not advisory. Not consulting. Employed. Permanent. Decision-making.
Opinion Featured Blue Sky City vs. 30% Vacancy
The 'Blue Sky City' rebrand cost $4.8 million. It describes a Calgary that exists in economic development pitch decks. The Calgary that exists on the ground is more complicated, more interesting, and considerably more conflicted.
Culture Featured The Saddledome's Last Dance
The Scotiabank Saddledome was never beautiful. It was distinctive — the hyperbolic paraboloid roofline gave it a profile that architects praised and everyone else described as "that saddle-shaped...
Culture Daveed Diggs & clipping. Run Sled Island
The most interesting music festival in Western Canada just handed its curatorial keys to an experimental hip-hop trio whose last album included industrial noise collages and horrorcore narratives.
Opinion Our Music Scene Doesn't Need Permission
Every few years, someone from Toronto or Vancouver writes an article expressing surprise that Calgary has a music scene. The tone is always the same — a mix of condescension and genuine discovery.
Events Your Summer 2026 Calgary Events Bible
Calgary's 2026 event calendar is stacked — arena farewell concerts, major festival seasons, theatre premieres, Broadway tours, and enough neighbourhood events to fill every weekend.
Culture Calgary Eats
There's a restaurant in Calgary where you can eat an 18-course tasting menu that weaves Indigenous ingredients with immigrant flavours, where reservations sell out within an hour of opening.
Opinion Inglewood vs. East Village vs. Beltline
Every city has a neighbourhood argument. Calgary's version is quieter but no less real: Inglewood, East Village, and the Beltline are the three neighbourhoods most actively competing for the title of Calgary's cultural centre.