Albert Ewing News Today

The prom tradition gives many teens an opportunity to stand out, but this year’s party paradoxically provides them with a shot at feeling normal.

City Notebook: City dives into intriguing real estate market Poll Looks great It’s a real phenomenon, looking at real estate listings during the pandemic. And there’s been no shortage of wondering about why, during economic turmoil and job uncertainty, home prices continue to rise across Canada. It might be coincidence, but no less deliberate that the City of Medicine Hat is getting into the real estate business. And how! With a new municipal development plan in hand, a new “waterfront”...

Above: A 19th-century mahogany settee in writer Caroline Randall Williams’s Nashville living room. In my first apartment, on Grand Boulevard in Greenwood, Mississippi, I slept in a 1920s bed my great-grandmother Goggy bought with her first paycheck as an elementary school teacher for Black children in Tuskegee, Alabama. The bed was full-size. I had wanted a queen. It came with an old-​fashioned vanity, complete with a curved mirror and cushioned stool. I had wanted something contemporary a...