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Steve Notley, the celebrated indie cartoonist and video game designer whose older sister, Rachel, has become premier of Alberta, did not have a front-row seat for most of Alberta's election. [...]

This is one of those overnight sensations that did not happen overnight. Inside the unravelling of the longest-serving provincial regime in the history of Confederation. They have lost the Mandate [...]

One year after much of central Calgary went underwater, the remaining signs of catastrophe are awfully hard to detect. Perhaps a less resilient city would make for better copy, but [...]

THE BAD NEWS broke on July 1: the 2013 Calgary Stampede won't quite be up to snuff in all respects. Participants in the Team Cattle Penning competition had to be [...]

PARLIAMENTARIAN OF THE YEAR ELIZABETH MAY (GREEN) ONE MORNING THIS session, at the start of parliamentary business, Elizabeth May and Liberal MP Frank Valeriote ran into each other in the [...]

IN A CALGARY hotel bar, a long-time newspaper and TV pundit sips white wine and plays the favourite sport of the Alberta literati: arguing about the province's weird political history. [...]

DARREN MUNCH was shot multiple times in the middle of an August Saturday afternoon, in Prince George, B.C. The 25-year-old staggered to the middle of residential Oak Street where he [...]

TWO YEARS AGO, our annual Canada Day special report compared Canada with its bete noire and sibling to the south, and we liked, and were sometimes surprised, by what we [...]

Gay rights groups yelped December 19 when federal Agriculture Minister Ralph Goodale was quoted as saying that Canadians will not behave as 'pansies or pantywaists' in the increasingly strident dispute [...]

Richard Berghammer lives in Elliot Lake, Ont., but he was almost a victim of the September 11 suicide attacks on the World Trade Center. About four years ago, Mr. Berghammer, [...]

It was not always axiomatic that no one under 30 listens to CBC Radio. As recently as the 1970s, Mothercorp's share of the 18-24 age group was in the low [...]

The start of Edmonton's summer festival season is heralded each year by the Dreamspeakers celebration of aboriginal film and art. The National Film Board, which has a division dedicated to [...]

Nineteen-ninety-eight was supposed to be the year of the Alberta Treasury Branches' resurrection. When control of the provincial government's pseudo-bank was turned over to an independent board of directors last [...]

Calgary's Big Rock brewery takes its name from an 18,000-ton, 20-foot-high boulder that sits in the foothills five miles west of Okotoks (itself Blackfoot for 'big rock'). The quartzite boulder [...]

WHEN YOU JOIN a national newspaper or magazine as a writer, you start getting a lot more email from three kinds of people: PR folks, the insane and journalism students. [...]

The current 'God Question' issue of Skeptic magazine features an interview with Martin Gardner, a philosopher in Hendersonville, Tennessee, who has written books and articles in defence of theism. His [...]

Because older computer programs habitually saved space by representing the year by means of two digits, encoding 1991 as '91,' many pieces of computer software and hardware are expected to [...]

Alberta conservatives have been complaining lately about the Klein government's desire to emasculate the Legislature, what with the new vogue for government by Growth Summit, lottery board and Social Services [...]

When the provincial government first drew its Regional Health Authority (RHA) boundaries in 1994, health economists were mystified at the way the lines slashed through clusters of towns and cities [...]

There was a time, not so long ago, when the province of British Columbia had the least gay-friendly government in Canada. Under former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm, gay [...]

Frank Sisson, owner of the Silver Dollar Action Centre in Calgary, has long been a symbol of the benefits of legalized gambling. The 1993 introduction of video lottery terminals turned [...]

Neo-conservatism is supposedly spreading in Canada, but 'right-wing' is still in many circles an unpleasant concept. Just ask the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the 85,000-member non-partisan group famous for its fights [...]

John Robert 'Bud' McCaig is the board chairman of two enormous Alberta corporations. One is the $600-million Trimac trucking empire his father Jack founded; the other is the Calgary Regional [...]

Alberta's crown prosecutors are on a losing streak. They have raised public ire by failing to make first-degree murder cases against the home-invasion killers of Edmonton housewife Barb Danelesko, and [...]

When Grant Mitchell quit the Alberta Liberal leadership two weeks ago, he gave the party a full 18 months to replace him. They may need every day. The party is [...]

In today's efficiency-worshipping world, citizens are everywhere being asked to re-evaluate their expectations of what the State can do for them. In Canada, the federal government may soon ask for [...]

Until May 14, things were going nicely for Health Resources Group (HRG), the consortium that intends to open a private medical facility on the third floor of the old Grace [...]

On the face of it, the restructuring of the Alberta government under the Klein administration has been a devolutionary process, where responsibility for the delivery of health and education services [...]

To the casual observer, the outcome of the Gordon Sheward trial in Calgary might have seemed a big victory for the Alberta Treasury Branches. The beleaguered provincial bank was the [...]

For years, savvy members of Alberta's Opposition have known that of all the problematic loan guarantees that have since returned to haunt the government, the thousands made in the name [...]

The Alberta Treasury Branches, Alberta's government-owned bank, is besieged on all sides. Rival banks say it has no place in the private market. Academics say it is unnecessary and enjoys [...]

Editor's Note: Due to a production error the entire text of this story did not run last week. If a Ukrainian-Canadian child is adopted by a Chinese-Canadian couple, the Alberta [...]

You want to talk about the Treasury Branches?' asks the famous corporate lawyer. 'Is this about that Rahall book?' No, the lawyer is told, we don't have to talk about [...]

Contrary to what the newspapers said, the Alberta government did not announce a $244 million loss to taxpayers on April 1. It is true that, on that day, Alberta Treasurer [...]

Unlike its neighbours British Columbia and Saskatchewan, Alberta is not union-friendly. Fewer than one in four non-agricultural Alberta workers is unionized--the lowest rate in Canada. There is no question that [...]

Ed Wiebe used to be the janitor at the Tamarack Motor Inn in Rocky Mountain House. He is an opinionated guy, and he never much liked the video lottery terminals [...]

The 1997 Alberta election was a foregone conclusion long before the March 11 vote: Albertans would reward Premier Ralph Klein for turning the province's finances by giving him another term. [...]

The circus is coming to town!' Of old, those words meant people would soon be surging toward the big top to watch performing elephants, bears, lions, tigers, and other four-footed [...]

First there was American author Jeremy Rifkin's The End of Work, a scare-mongering polemic about how new technologies and globalization will destroy millions of middle-class jobs in Western, developed countries. [...]

For two years political pundits have described the health issue as a ticking time bomb planted underneath Ralph Klein and Alberta's Conservative government. But the Tories made it almost all [...]

Alberta Social Credit party leader Randy Thorsteinson made mistakes during last Thursday's televised election debate, to be sure. He went the full hour without mentioning that his party supports the [...]

Like most good production equipment, the Alberta Tory machine comes with interchangeable parts. Last week, the premier's close friend and barber, Mike Nasser, was revealed to be under investigation for [...]

Two minutes after Treasurer Jim Dinning finished his 1997 budget speech last Tuesday, the document became irrelevant. The Speaker prorogued Alberta's 23rd Legislative Assembly, the budget vanished into procedural limbo, [...]

It is a rather strange situation. The Reform Party, ostensibly a gang of right-wing deficit hawks, is calling for a lucrative tax benefit aimed at Canadian children--a new social-spending program, [...]

In the headquarters of the Alberta Treasury Branches, 'privatization' is a word that would only be uttered by an incautious visitor: the Alberta law governing the Crown-owned banking network does [...]

The Canadian health system is widely envied in the United States because it offers an assurance of cheap cradle-to-grave care. So it is no surprise that Americans should occasionally want [...]

The tendency in the eastern media has been to portray Alberta premier Ralph Klein, architect of a balanced budget after three years of spending cuts, as a frothing neoconservative beast. [...]

Political scientists and economists are often confused by the Alberta Economic Development Authority. Ostensibly the AEDA is a private group of businessmen who advise the provincial government on business policy. [...]

Reform Party members gathered at Edmonton's Convention Inn South on January 10 to select a new candidate to replace their incumbent MP, schoolteacher Hugh Hanrahan. Supporters of the front-runner, 25-year-old [...]

A band-aid is what the Alberta Medical Association, naturally if unoriginally, calls a new incentive program that will use cash to draw doctors to small Alberta towns. David O'Neil, head [...]