“My girls' lives are going to be so different because of all this opportunity." Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Crystal Smith looks forward as she endures severe personal criticism over her community's participation in mutual benefit agreements with the Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada project to pipe and liquefy natural gas for export to Asian markets from the Northwest Pacific coast.

In 1974, Don Pettit chased a dream a thousand kilometres north to Dawson Creek.

​​When I caught up with Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna after Question Period in mid-May, she'd just given impassioned arguments in the House about the costs of the climate crisis being passed down to youth. In the half hour we spent together, McKenna talked about the biggest challenges she faces as a leader, and how she keeps going at this critical time.  ​

A tweeted photo from newly-minted Alberta Premier Jason Kenney unlocks a wealth of stories about ‘preordained’ power, going back decades and involving countless political giants such as Laurier, Diefenbaker, JFK, Clinton and the Trudeaus.