Fire Weather

by John Vaillant,
reviewed by Annie Prud’homme Généreux

Dominion

by Stephen R. Bown,
reviewed by Alex Rettie

Among the Untamed

by dee Hobsbawn-Smith,
reviewed by Catherine Owen

A Season in Chezgh’un

by Darrel J. McLeod,
reviewed by Glen Huser

Girlfriend on Mars

by Deborah Willis,
reviewed by Kate Black

The Observer

by Marina Endicott,
reviewed by Robbie Jeffrey

Flicker

by Lori Hahnel,
reviewed by Megan Clark

Trina Moyles

(“Alberta is Burning”) is the author of Lookout: Love Solitude and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest (Penguin Canada, 2021) and the forthcoming Black Bear (Knopf Canada 2025).

Andrew Nikiforuk and Chris Turner

(“Should We Be Optimistic About Our Climate Future?”) Andrew Nikiforuk wrote Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent (Greystone, 2008), a national bestseller and winner of the 2009 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Chris Turner is the author of How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World (Penguin, 2022), which won the 2023 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

George Colpitts

(“Where Sad Animals are ‘Happy’”) is an environmental historian at the University of Calgary and the author of Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 (UBC Press). His Article “Murder, Death and Suicide at the Zoo,” about Quebec’s captive polar nears, was published by the Canadian Review in 2023

Paula Simons

(“Baring My Breast”) was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2018 after a long and distinguished career as one of western Canada’s most acclaimed journalists.