Christopher Grabowski set up a portrait studio in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Canada's poorest urban neighbourhood, and took portraits of the inhabitants.

We were trying to find a cover image among a stack of Tom Abrahamson's photographs.A lot of intense look­ing went on, and very little talk, until Eve said: you know, if we want a strong cover, there’s really only one choice.

In December 2006, the St. Louis Hotel and beer parlour in Calgary—once a favourite haunt of Ralph Klein, former premier of Alberta—closed its doors after ninety-two years of operation.