Alberta farm shooting is a new touchstone for rural gun owners
Unlike the trial of Gerald Stanley, the case of Edouard Maurice has no apparent racial dimension. For angry property owners, it’s becoming a yardstick case.
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Jason Markusoff
Jason Markusoff writes about Alberta, from the stubbornly flat parts to the magnificently bumpy bits. He has lived in Edmonton and (currently) Calgary, and spent 12 years reporting for the cities’ largest newspapers.
Suddenly, Rachel Notley warns she’d cut off oil shipments to B.C.
With her nebulous threat, Notley borrows policy from her opponent Jason Kenney—and rhetorical style from Donald Trump
Jason Kenney has everything to lose
Jason Kenney’s inexorable rise in Alberta politics has been more difficult than it looked. Can he close the deal?
How B.C. and Alberta can get out of their trade war before it gets worse
It involves a lot of ’ifs,’ admittedly, and a prime minister acting as statesman within his own borders
In B.C. and Alberta’s pipeline fight, only one side is unified
Rachel Notley needed an issue that would stir Albertans’ oft-wounded provincial pride. John Horgan gave it to her.
With B.C.’s attack on Alberta oil, the war of mutual destruction begins
And this time, oil-by-rail gets tarred alongside pipelines
Why Kent Hehr had to go
The woman who accused Hehr of inappropriate behaviour recalls her encounters with him. “The very first time I was in an elevator with him, he said: ’You’re yummy’”
Why Calgary’s 10-year bid to end homelessness was a valuable failure
The pioneering, ’housing first’ experiment inspired other cities and levels of government, providing hope that homelessness is solvable
For longshot cities, bidding on Amazon HQ was never really about Amazon
Laugh if you wish at Winnipeg and Hamilton, but they got everything they could ask from a continent-wide beauty contest
Loblaws’ price-fixing may have cost you at least $400
Any way you slice it, Canadian bread shouldn’t have cost this much