For decades, cakewalk elections for incumbent mayors have been the norm. Mayor Naheed Nenshi never faced a close challenge in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

On weekends, The Sprawl sends out an email newsletter called Saturday Morning Sprawl. You can subscribe here. Here is this week's dispatch—the first of 2022. With my kids home from school, I spent a ...