Sanders, the author of numerous books and the editor of Alberta History, chronicled the loss of many Calgary buildings that ...

The gist is that, to stay relevant and break through all the online noise, you have to be on innumerable platforms in little ...

Calgary historian Harry Sanders wrote this story for The Sprawl in 2019 after W.A. Gough’s violin shop was demolished. Sanders died on September 6, 2026, at the age of 59. He wrote countless such ...

In the midst of a national housing crisis, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has pointed to the gap between the number of households and available homes as the main driver of our ...

The development and home-building industries are the most obvious place to point a finger. It was, after all, developers and home builders that plotted to install an industry-friendly slate of ...

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 ...

I was upfront with my editor from the outset: “I'm no cowboy.” It was the end of 2009. I had just left my job as a news writer for Fast Forward Weekly, Calgary’s alternative weekly newspaper. I was ...

This is the third and final story in the 5th edition of the Sprawl: The Summer Bike Edition. If you value our work, please support the Sprawl so we can keep doing local journalism like this! When ...

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 ...

These are just a few of the headlines that accompanied the first major wave of Black settlers to Alberta in early 1900s. This wave, mostly farmers from the United States, came to Alberta due to ...