On weekends, The Sprawl sends out an email newsletter. Subscribe here so you don't miss a dispatch! Here is this week's edition. Can you identify Bayview on a map of Calgary? I couldn't until recently ...

After two back-to-back Sprawl editions, we're packing up our tables and chairs and going away for a bit, as per the Sprawl Manifesto. We began 2019 with The 2044 Edition, running a pop-up newsroom out ...

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 ...

At The Sprawl, we want to hire another Alberta journalist to dig into stories that others won’t. To do that, we need your support! Sign up for as little as $5 a month to help us reach our target of ...

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 ...

The Sprawl connects Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. If you value independent local news, support our work so we can keep digging into municipal issues in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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