A toxic drug, more powerful than fentanyl, hits Alberta
How an Alberta professor’s good research was used to create an ultra-toxic drug, decades after he shelved it
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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.
Rachel Notley doesn’t understand the media—or martyrs
The best gift the Alberta NDP premier could ever give Ezra Levant was to try to ban The Rebel website
Kent Hehr: The Energizer Bunny who’s back in the game
A senseless shooting nearly ended his life. Politics gave it new meaning. Why Kent Hehr’s touch may be just what Veterans Affairs needs.
Justin Trudeau’s ’Hands Across Canada Tour’ lands in Alberta
Justin Trudeau visited Calgary and Edmonton to try to mollify a vulnerable-feeling province. But the big question remains: Do Alberta’s pipeline dreams stand a chance?
Five ways Trudeau can help La Loche
Jason Markusoff: ’For starters, don’t just visit when kids shoot kids’
La Loche: A small town’s grief. A nation’s shame.
How La Loche happened and what it says about Canada’s shocking neglect of First Nations in the North
In La Loche, hurt, grief and disbelief
Jason Markusoff reports from town of 2,600 where RCMP have announced charges against a 17-year-old
Ted Cruz: Made in Canada
Before he was running for president, the Texas senator was little Felito from Calgary
Shannon Phillips: Alberta’s Minister of hard hits
How a former activist and roller derby player is changing Alberta’s—and Canada’s—climate change record
The death of the Alberta dream
Large-scale layoffs, empty office towers, falling house prices: Alberta has been gutted by the glut.