The great escape from Fort McMurray
From the first puffs of smoke to the harrowing evacuation, this is the story of how the Fort McMurray fire happened, the heroic battle to fight back the flames and what it all means for the devastated city.
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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.
It takes a village to safeguard an evacuated Fort McMurray
We tally all of the firefighters, police officers, mental health workers, insurance adjusters and the rest of a small army of people in Fort McMurray
On tour of a burned-out Fort McMurray
On tour in Fort Mac to bear eyewitness to what the massive wildfire wrought
One of the last men out of Fort McMurray
Jason Markusoff tracks down Roy Powell, who stayed in his Fort McMurray home for more than 18 hours before RCMP officers found him and insisted he leave
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The Alberta NDP won’t run with scissors—or even walk
The Alberta budget follows the NDP’s binary thinking on fiscal matters: it’s either reasonable spending increases or the bloody abyss
The NDP’s hard left turn into an existential crisis
How the Leap Manifesto has touched off an epic fight inside the NDP
The Leap Manifesto, and where the NDP will land
The federal NDP agreed to discuss the Leap Manifesto. What comes next will have a big impact on the Alberta NDP.