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The article profiles incoming Alberta Premier Rachel Notley following the unexpected win of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the province's May 2015 election. It outlines her background, including growing up with a politician father, Grant Notley, and her career as a labor lawyer. Other topics include Notley's likely economic policies and the province's oil industry.

The article discusses a June 2013 flood in Calgary, Alberta, in commemoration of its one-year anniversary, focusing on the efforts in response to the disaster. Topics include the rapid repair of roads, rail tracks and buildings, remaining physical and social impacts of the flood including political debate over construction laws, and potential hydrological projects to prevent future flood damage including renovations to the Calgary Zoo.

The article looks at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta. Topics include the development of Stampede by U.S.-born roper Guy Weadick, the relatively high prize purses associated with the Stampede, and the downsides of the Stampede, such as the high number of human and animal injuries it causes and the high cost for Calgary of running the event.

The article looks at the 2012 Alberta elections, focusing on the rise of Danielle Smith, a candidate for the premiership from the Wildrose Party. Topics discussed include her former career as a journalist, the Progressive Conservative party's hold on power in Alberta since 1971, and Smith's campaign manager Tom Flanagan.

Looks at the Alberta Treasury Branches (ATB), Alberta's government-owned bank, in April of 1997. Debate over the role of the ATB; The impact of a book by Monier M. Rahall about the corruption inherent in the ATB; Possible new amendments to the Treasury Branches Act which would give the ATB the power to sell mutual funds, insurance and other financial services; Embarrassing cases for the ATB; Financial insecurity of the ATB; Comments from several politicians and financial leaders.

Reports on the controversy surrounding video lottery terminals (VLT) in Alberta. The attempts by the town of Rocky Mountain House to remove VLTs; The promise from MLA Ty Lund and Alberta Premier Ralph Klein to remove the VLTs; Their subsequent delay because of impending litigation; The sense among the voters that the promise was not made in good faith; Opposition to the removal from Alberta hoteliers; Government assocation with VLT operators. INSET: St. Albert is VLT mission control..

Discusses the March 11, 1997 elections in the Canadian province of Alberta. The return of Tory Premier Ralph Klein to office; How his Progressive Conservative party fared; Edmonton, the province's capital, as remaining a Liberal bastion; Events in the final week leading up to the election which made it hard for the premier; Statistics on how the political parties fared; Results in the cities of Edmonton and Calgary; Speculation about appointments to Klein's cabinet.

Discusses the reactions of Federal Environment Minister Sergio Marchi to the 1996 research on global warming. His intentions to make Canada a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are allegedly causing the global warming phenomenon; His avoidance of discussing the costs of reduction and the uncertainty of the science behind the claims; The impact on Alberta. INSETS: The healthy smoker, by David Philip;Baywatch causes cancer.

Discusses the discovery of a skeleton of an ornithomimid on July 17, 1996 in the Devil's Coulee in the Red Deer River Badlands. Discovery by Dennis Braman and Kevin Aulenback; Whether this skeleton supports the theory that birds are avian dinosaurs, or rather are descended from dinosaurs; History of discussion of theory of evolution of dinosaurs; Other fossil finds relating to bird-dinosaur theories; Importance of keratin stain on new skeleton; Response of creationists to news.

Reports on the efforts of Alberta government officials to wipe out gophers or ground squirrels from the area. Reaction of farmers, environmentalists and city dwellers; Destructive effect of gopher burrows crops and farm machinery; Limitations of rat eradication techniques on gophers. INSET: The sanctity of gophers..

Tells that Alberta Minister of Social Services Mike Cardinal wants to decentralize the province's child-welfare system. Assertion that the province has an overpaid bureaucracy of failure-prone social workers; Liberals' opposition to Cardinal's reforms; Child-welfare reforms including changes to the role of social workers. INSET: After three decades, Ottawa backs off, by C.C..

Presents an obituary for Alberta political leader Ernest C. Manning, who died in February 1996 at the age of 87. Career in Alberta politics including 25 years as premier; Career in religious broadcasting from the 1930s to the 1970s; Manning as the embodiment of Alberta to the rest of Canada; His support of `social credit' economics; Political philosophy; Family. INSET: With sadness, but no regret, by Les Sillars.

Discusses the ongoing intergovernmental tug-of-war between Alberta and Ottawa. Possible changes in the current wealth transfer system in order to alleviate the federal government's burgeoning $550 billion debt; Repercusions for health and welfare needs; Reasons for interprovincial migration. INSETS: Quebec goes its own way on medicare, by John Robson;On Newfie Row, its the oldlostland, by C.C..

The article looks at the results of the 2012 premier election in Alberta, where the Progressive Conservative candidate Alison Redford beat Wildrose candidate Danielle Smith despite multiple polls projecting that the Wildrose party would win a majority. Topics discussed include Redford's support from doctors and teachers, the racist and homophobic views of some of the Wildrose candidates, and Redford's plans for Alberta's oil industry.

The article looks at the Raymond Comets football team in Raymond, Alberta. Topics discussed include head coach Darryl Salmon balancing coaching and the birth of his second child in October 2011, the school's championship basketball team, and the football team's Tier I standing despite its small student population of less than 250. The team's exhibition games with American teams are noted.

The article focuses on motion picture director James Cameron's visit to Canada and learn about the oil sands industry, which he had claimed were a stain on Canada's environmental record. While in Canada, he visited with oil companies and Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner, went to Fort Chipewyan downriver from the oil sands, and met with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach. Land reclamation projects underway by oil companies, like Suncor Energy, are discussed.

This article discusses the political problems facing Canada's development of the petroleum from the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. The United States is the only viable market for such oil, so Canada must deal with U.S. regulations and protests from non-governmental organizations against what they consider to be dirty oil that generates higher greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional oil. Environmentalists are also concerned with expansion of a pipeline that runs from Canada to Oklahoma.

Presents Canadian news briefs as of December 2, 2002. Raising of the minimum wage in Newfoundland, which has left Alberta with the lowest minimum wage in Canada; Report that Joni Mitchell is quitting the music industry; Beer-flavored snack food which was designed by scientists at the University of Alberta.

Focuses on the victory of Progressive Conservative Ralph Klein in Alberta, Canada's March 12, 2001 provincial election. Percentage of the vote that went to each party; Statement that Nancy MacBeth stepped down as leader of the Liberal party after the election; How the result of the election is a Legislature dominated by Conservatives. INSET: Female leaders almost always lose.

Examines the lawsuit by Monier M. Rahall against the Alberta Treasury Branches (ATB), as of February 2, 1998. ATB's mandate and public image; Desire to restore confidence in the ATB; Rahall's intention to prove that the ATB is an illegal bank; Rahall's book `Banksters and Prairie Boys' about the ATB; Rahall's background; Details of lawsuit; Government's role in the ATB; ATB's holdings; Rahall not seeking monetary damages; More.

Discusses the status of government spending on health care in Alberta as of December 1996. The role played by Premier Ralph Klein; The reason healthcare is at the top of the political agenda; The original plans to allow private clinics the chance to bill the government.

Discusses the state of health care within the City of Edmonton, Alberta, as a Capital Health Authority Review Committee made recommendations to streamline the local operations of the authority. Comments from the committee's leader Lyle Oberg; The financial state of CHA; Recommendations about trauma centers.

Reports on the 1996 local election in the Redwater constituency of Edmonton, Alberta. Mary Ann Balsille's mayoralty victory; Performance of the Liberal Party; Theme of political campaigns.

Reports that Alberta Premier Ralph Klein's popularity has survived the scent of scandal. Controversy since October 1995 when it was revealed that Klein's wife, Colleen, owned shares in a company named Multi-Corp.; Background of the Multi-Corp. matter; The filing of a Freedom of Information Act by Frank Bruseker, the Liberal point man on Multi-Corp.

Reports on the forest fires that occurred in northern Alberta on the evening of May 28, 1995. Measures taken to minimize the extent of the fire's damage; Military-style discipline employed in putting out the fire.

The article looks at politics in Alberta in advance of the 2015 Canadian election, focusing on Progressive Conservative (PC) Party Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. It reports on the controversy over remarks he made on a recent radio program which implied that the province's voters along with falling oil prices are responsible for its current fiscal problems. Other topics include Prentice's policy views on collective bargaining with government employee unions.

An interview with Don Iveson, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, is presented. Asked about the effect of the drop in global oil prices on the city, he notes that it has had much more impact at the provincial level and that the city's finances are relatively stable. Other topics include the city's infrastructure development plan, the Municipal Sustainability Initiative (MSI) grant program, and Edmonton's role in the province's petroleum industry.

The article discusses the political strategy Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, focusing on his efforts to maintain his Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta's (PC) control of the province through upcoming by-elections. Topics include his decision to hold four elections rather than one, the effect of oil prices on Alberta's economy, and the PCs' strategy on social issues such as education.

The author discusses Canadian politician Peter Lougheed, who the author says has turned down the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party since 1973 in order to be premier of Alberta instead of a candidate for Prime Minister. His debates with the Canadian federal government, the 1982 Constitution Act, and the oil industry in Alberta are discussed, as well as the 1970s energy boom and politician Pierre Trudeau.

The article looks at 2012 controversy surrounding Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Association of Alberta. Her reaction to Wildrose and Liberal party legislative assembly members (MLAs) returning money received for sitting on a committee that never met, while her own PC party MLAs did not has upset Alberta constituents. Redford is compared with former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein.

The article discusses funding for the construction of an arena for the Oilers hockey team in Edmonton, Alberta. In the arrangement between Daryl Katz, the owner of the team and of the Katz Group pharmacies, and the city of Edmonton, the city will be responsible for paying for the construction. The possibility that the Oilers franchise will move, the finance of the Katz Group, and funding for other arenas is examined.

The article looks at campaign finance laws in Alberta. Groups banned from contributing to partisan causes include corporations owned by the government, municipalities, Metis, school boards, and public post-secondary institutions. Since 2011, it has become public knowledge that the Alberta Progressive Conservative party has accepted donations from various prohibited groups such as the Medicine Hat Catholic School Board and the University of Lethbridge.

The article presents an interview with Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta. Topics discussed include her work for Joe Clark, former chair of the Commonwealth Ministers on South Africa group, her work in South Africa during the 1990s, and her promotion of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that would run from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. She also discusses her goal to increase Alberta's relations with China, India, and Vietnam.

The article looks at the 2012 election for the party leader of Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party (PCP). Topics discussed include the party's rise to power in 1971, the election front-runner Gary Mar, and the Wildrose Party, an opposition party. Other candidates mentioned include Ted Morton, Alison Redford, and Doug Horner.

The article discusses the record number of homicide cases in Edmonton, Alberta in 2011, with a focus on how many of the crimes are occurring north of the North Saskatchewan River. Other topics discussed include that neighboring Calgary, Alberta has significantly fewer homicides; Edmonton's demographic makeup of Somali-Canadians, young Aboriginals, and oil-patch workers; and the seeming randomness to the crimes, which are not gang- or barroom-related.

This article reports on the May 15, 2011 wildfire in Alberta that destroyed the town of Slave Lake. The article discusses the fire's destruction of 40 percent of the community's structures, including its City Hall. Information is provided on the size and speed of the fire and the town's evacuation, noting that there were no fatalities.

The article focuses on the likely succession of finance minister Ted Morton to replace premier Ed Stelmach when he steps down. It states that due to the weakness of the U.S. dollar and low natural gas prices Stelmach is unlikely to balance Alberta's budget and expressed reluctance on making the deep cuts required to balance it. It mentions Morton was first elected to Alberta's legislature in 2004 and proposed that the province should handle its own tax collection, policing and public pensions.

The article discusses the July 3, 2010 disappearance of Lyle and Marie Ann McCann, an older married couple from St. Albert's, Alberta. The two disappeared during a journey to British Columbia in their motor home. The vehicle was discovered on fire by police on July 5 in a forest some 200 kilometers from St. Albert's, but the couple has not been located. The investigation into the case is discussed.

The article discusses the frustration felt by the Alberta Liberal party of Alberta, Canada. According to the article, Alberta serves as a reminder that overcoming deep allegiances isn't easy when the stakes are high and the futility of votesplitting is obvious. How for forty years the Alberta's Liberals and New Democrats have professed to loathe Conservative government is discussed in aspect of the 2012 party election.

This article presents information about how Jean Thie, an expert in forests and wetlands, discovered the world's longest beaver dam in 2007. Thie was studying the effect of climate change on permafrost when he became curious about the beaver dams he was spotting through his use of Google Earth in the Canadian boreal zone. Thie discovered the record-breaking dam in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, Canada.

The article profiles Olenka Bilash who is a member of the education faculty at the University of Alberta and the 3M Fellows club. Brief information is given about her family and Ukrainian heritage. Topics include her position in the university's department of secondary education as a coordinator of second languages and international education. Her interest in pedagogical theory is noted.

The article focuses on Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith, including her political agenda and electoral experience. The Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta leadership election in October 2009 is discussed. The article also talks about the Alliance platform, including on energy research, the Canada Pension Plan and right-to-work legislation.

Reports that a painting by Alberta artist Jonathon Earl Bowser appeared, without his knowledge, on the cover of an anonymous Arabic novel titled 'Zabibah and the King.' How the painting, 'The Awakening,' is believed to have been copied from the Internet by an Iraqi publishing house; Opinion of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that the novel was written by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein; Lack of legal recourse for Bowser.

Focuses on a lawsuit brought by David Carter, a former speaker of Alberta's Legislature who is now a private citizen of Canada, against the Alberta government. Carter's claim that a risk management fund established by the Members' Services Committee of the Alberta Legislature should not have been used to settle a defamation case against Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day; Amount paid out by the fund to settle Day's case.

Focuses on Canadian Pierre Vincent, an anti-monarchist who refuses to swear an oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II of England, as of February, 2001. How, facing a grievance from Vincent's union, the federal Treasury has allowed Vincent to retain his job at a government laboratory in Alberta without taking the oath; Vincent's plans to pursue the case in court.

Examines the problems facing the waste treatment plant at Swan Hills in Alberta. How Bovar Inc. is handing the plant back to the provincial government under the terms of the 1995 agreement in which the province gave Bovar 150 million dollars to take it over; Lawsuits in 1996 and 1998 due to an accidental release of PCBs and dioxins, which forced a temporary shutdown of the plant; Comments from Bovar president John Kuziak on the level of waste and the plant's financial troubles.

Reports on the actions of Greg Gomersall, a town councillor from Black Diamond, Calgary in Alberta, who refused to stand in a moment of silence for the former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Reasons why Gomersall did not pay respects to Trudeau, including his opinion that Trudeau embraced communism; Public opinion regarding Gomersall's protest.

Focuses on the Trimac trucking company based in Calgary, Alberta and its plans to become a private company. Start of the company as a family business by Jack McCaig; Intention of the McCaig family to buy back public shares of the company and sell its interest in non-core businesses; Concern of the company with long term goals.

Focuses on Loren Wiberg and his company, ZYX Corp. Federal contract received by the company to grow, dry, process and package marijuana; Legality of marijuana in Canada for medicinal purposes; Desire of Wiberg to purchase the Diefenbunker, an old nuclear bunker in Alberta, and grow the marijuana hydroponically inside the building.

Reports on the discovery by Edmonton, Alberta software consultant Zues Yaghi of a legal way to beat a particular kind of video slot machine. Lawsuit filed against Yaghi by the slot machine's manufacturer, WMS Gaming Inc.; How Yaghi spoke to the owners of Baccarat Casino and Eric McCann, Alberta's Chief Gaming Commissioner.