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When the pandemic arrived last March, Puneeta Sandhu McBryan had just given birth to her first child, a boy. As she locked down and contemplated the future, the popular narrative was that a lot of couples stuck at home would use their free time to make sourdough loaves-and babies.
On a recent Thursday outside the Coliseum Inn, a woman in wrinkled clothes balances a large blue sleeping bag atop her shoulder. In the parking lot a man pushes a shopping cart overflowing with clothing. Outside the lobby doors, a man asks, "Hey, got a dollar?"
On Richards Island, in a small trailer set beside a massive petroleum camp that looks like a Moon station on the empty tundra, Heinrik Sevä reclines in his cot. "Reindeer I see here is politics," he says, sipping tea. "That part of it I don't want.
J eff Behrens always needed help running errands. As a child growing up in the small town of Edson, Alberta, Behrens was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, which has progressively taken his vision. He's never been able to drive, and so completing most tasks outside the house was difficult.
AS TIM VANDEWARK walks through his Edmonton suburb of Prince Charles one April evening, the "problem houses" keep appearing. Here is one post-war bungalow without curtains and a yard being reclaimed by nature. There is one with a deck that is leaning like it's drunk. VanDewark stops walking at another, its windows covered in cobwebs.
Tim Querengesser is a writer in Edmonton who is currently writing a book and is an advocate for livable cities. This election's first and only English-language debate, held in early October, was notable to many in Canada for what each party leader managed to steer clear of, despite finding time to hurl insults or lump the two front-runners together on climate change as Mr. Delay and Mr. Deny.