Flashback documentary explores the Edmonton dance club that changed Alberta

Everybody who lived in Edmonton in the 1980s knew it was famous for two things: the mall and the Oilers. What filmmaker and journalist Peter Hays explores in his documentary Flashback, which screens Saturday as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is a third thing, namely a dance club that was a safe haven for queer people and their friends. “We (Edmonton) had the world’s largest shopping mall,” said Hays, in an interview with CTV News. “We had the world&r