Colby Cosh: Alberta's feeble separatist movement

Alberta’s contributions to the Canada Pension Plan are also, as the recent controversy over a project for an Alberta Pension Plan showed, enormously disproportionate. The most important source of Alberta’s relative wealth is its oil and gas, and perhaps …

Celebration of Life Announcement for Thomas Kerr and Alberta Maier

The family of Thomas L. Kerr and Alberta I. Maier will be hosting a Celebration of Life and wishes to invite those who knew them to join them on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at the Rhoades Center of the Clarion Campus, Venango County, from 3 — 6 p.m. The …

Alberta sugar beet growers sign contract with processor

April showers may bring May flowers, but they also bring long-term stability to the sugar beet industry in Alberta. Negotiations between the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers (ASBG) and Rogers Sugar that continued into May have culminated in a successful five- …

Oh, Canada: Alberta is on native land

Janice Makokis is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor, and a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Treaty No. 6 territory. Doreen Cardinal-Somers is a treaty advisor, living in Treaty No. 8 territory, and a member of …

Ex-premier David Hancock named assistant chief justice of Alberta Court of Justice

He is a committee board member at the Alberta Law Reform Institute. At the Alberta Court of Justice, he belongs to the Edmonton Family and Youth Child Protection Committee, the Indigenous Strategies Committee, and the Reforming Family Justice Advisory …

Young workers pouring into Alberta — Nenshi blames Smith for high youth unemployment

Alberta’s immigration surged from 2021 to 2024, driven by economic opportunities and the "Alberta is Calling" campaign. Between July 2020 and June 2023, about 150,000 immigrants arrived, including 54,287 in 2022-2023. The 2021 Census reported 193 …

Alberta government found non-compliant in handling access to information requests

HANNAFORD: Alberta's Inuit question... what was the Premier talking about?

Kendall faces province-wide Alberta warrant

More legal trouble for a former Swift Current resident. The Alberta RCMP has issued a province-wide warrant for Tanisha Kendall. Police say Kendall is charged with failing to comply with a release order. On February 15th, Three Hills RCMP investigated a …

Alberta chief electoral officer warns UCP proposals will hurt investigative ability

EDMONTON – Alberta’s chief electoral officer is warning the government that proposed legislation will impair the election commissioner’s power to investigate election rule breaking. A controversial bill introduced last month, if passed, will make sweeping …