Alberta

Alberta doctors begged their premier two weeks ago to impose a ’circuit-breaker’ lockdown. It would be over by now.

Image of the Week: A doctor’s call to tell a family their loved one had died captures the exhaustion, frustration and sorrow washing over the province

Jacob Sansom and Morris Cardinal went on a hunting trip and never came back. The killing of the two Métis-Cree men deepens Indigenous peoples’ sense that their lives are less valued.

As its money-making oil industry shrivels, Alberta is faced with a seismic reordering of its books—and the notion that it’s now an outlier for the wrong reasons

Philippe J. Fournier: Canadian political polls tend to hit the mark, except when it comes to counting Conservative support in the West. What’s going wrong?

Scott Payne: From Ed Stelmach to Rachel Notley, Alberta’s premiers have attempted to address our over-reliance on oil and gas and the impact it has on the province’s economic health only to find themselves rebuffed

To some, the 4-H pledge can seem a corny throwback to a bygone, agrarian era. But each year, it inspires thousands of Canadian farm kids to take on projects that provide insight into how we feed ourselves. It’s never been needed more.

Alberta’s hurry-up corporate tax cut is less an investment in the future than a gift to the biggest current players, say experts

Jason Markusoff: The Fair Deal Panel’s biggest ideas seem out of step with the province’s current economic state—and the mindset of its people

Philippe J. Fournier: While Jason Kenney’s party has shed some support in the past year, it’s still sitting safely in majority territory