I Heart Edmonton

Local author and poet Gary Garrison goes inside the walls of the Edmonton Institution to listen to the often unheard voices of maximum security prisoners BY PAULA E. KIRMAN Gary Garrison 's Human On the Inside is as much about some of what goes on behind locked doors as it is an exploration of human nature.  Gary Garrison's 'Human on the Inside' Garrison, a local author and poet who is the former editor of the Alberta Legislature's Hansard , took part in a volunteer program where he would visit with inmates at the maximum security Edmonton Institution . He talked to convicted murderers and sex offenders, particularly those who would not normally get any visitors. Through deeply personal discussions about his own life, Garrison strives to show how getting to know those who are different than us can expand our own insights into our lives.  Or are they really that different? Garrison shows how particular sets of circumstances and choices led the...

The River Valley? Fort Edmonton Park? The Transit? Where would you go if #yeg was overrun by zombies?! BY EMIL TIEDEMANN T HE probability of Edmonton being devoured by a zombie apocalypse is about equal to the likelihood of our humble hometown being entirely devoid of those pesky potholes. It just isn't going to happen! But, as morbid as it most likely will sound, it's kind of fun to think about, no?! The undead...or a GWAR concert, maybe?! I'm not talking about the potholes, of course, because that's just too far out there; nope, I mean the takeover of the insatiable living dead. What would we do? Who would survive and who would parish? Where would we go to escape from having our flesh eaten alive by reanimated corpses? I bet you haven't spent much time going over these questions in your head, have you?!  Well, that's okay, because I have, and I am more than happy to share my advice on how to survive just such a scenario. In fact, my buddy--let...