In Ottawa, Laura Blanchette publishes a zine called Mid City that covers local municipal issues. Laura recently wrote about ...

A key policy of Alberta's former minister of environment and parks, Shannon Phillips, was expanding the Castle Wildland Provincial Park boundaries. Completed by order in council in January 2017, this ...

On Monday, at city hall, I ran into Bob Hawkesworth. He was there as part of the Keep Calgary strong campaign. The group is asking city council to do the "least harm to the most vulnerable" as it ...

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 ...

If all goes well at city hall on Monday, December 11, council will take its first steps toward citywide secondary suite reform. This has been proposed many times since 2010—and failed. But with a new ...

The Sprawl connects Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. But we can't do it alone. If you value independent local news and The Sprawl's 2025 election coverage, ...

In 2021, when he lost to Jyoti Gondek in the race to become Calgary’s mayor, Jeromy Farkas got just under 116,700 votes from Calgarians. Four years later, with the city’s population having grown by ...

All 14 wards in Calgary have now had election debates. The Sprawl has recorded and livestreamed forums in every single ward. Asad Chishti and I had to organize and run four of them ourselves, but we ...