Kate Beaton headed to the tar sand fields of Alberta saddled with loans and in need of cash. She found a job — and the book she “was always going to make.”
Tag: Alberta (Canada)
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At One of Canada’s Top Destinations, Tourists Are Back but Much Has Changed
The towns in and around Banff National Park are teeming again, but overseas visitors are scarce, as are hotel and restaurant workers.
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Why Catholicism Remains Strong in Canada
Even as Catholicism wanes in many Western countries, in Canada, it is holding steady as the largest religious denomination.
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Pope Apologizes in Canada for Schools That Abused Indigenous Children
Francis, responding to longtime pleas from Indigenous people, begged forgiveness for schools where children were forced to assimilate, many were sexually or physically abused and some died.
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Oilers and Flames in Battle of Alberta: Bedlam on the Ice, Torn Loyalties Off It
The N.H.L. playoff series between the Oilers and the Flames is boiling over with the heavy hits, trash talk, deafening arenas and bountiful goal scoring that defined hockey in the 1980s, the last time the rivalry was so fierce.