Ottawa’s $27.6 Billion Tariff Fight Reaches Your Cart
Canada's counter-tariffs on $27.6 billion of American imports take effect September 8 at 15%, 25% and 50%, hitting steel, dairy, appliances and clothing.
How Many Winters Does It Take To Become Albertan
Some Alberta families go back generations and others arrived five years ago. Alberta has never agreed on how long it takes to belong, and that is the point.
Alberta’s Flood Infrastructure Money Proved Itself This Summer
Alberta's Drought and Flood Protection Program budgeted $125 million from 2024, and several funded projects including Springbank were tested this season.
Vulcan Alberta’s Accidental Rise To Star Trek Fame
A CPR surveyor named Vulcan, Alberta after the Roman god of fire in 1910, laying out streets called Juno, Mars and Jupiter decades before Star Trek aired.
Alberta Funds Seven Different Calgary Clean Tech Projects
Emissions Reduction Alberta put $15.1 million behind seven Calgary-led projects, from bitumen asphalt binder to $6.2 million for recycled marine fuel.
The Farm That Sold Alberta To Strangers
Established near Vulcan in 1912, the CPR Demonstration Farm was a working advertisement built to show settlers what prairie life could actually look like.
Funny How Fast Provincial Lines Disappear Under Pressure
American importers pay the tariffs on Canadian goods and Canadian exporters take the hit through weaker demand, which is why provincial rivalries fade fast.
What Data Centres Actually Do With Alberta’s Water
Alberta data centre water use comes down to one design choice. Closed-loop liquid cooling recirculates coolant, while evaporative systems consume far more.
Superman’s Smallville Was Filmed On The Alberta Prairies
In August 1977 Glenn Ford played Jonathan Kent on real southern Alberta prairie, and the Kent farm was built near three towns for the first Superman film.
The AI Slop Problem Was Never About AI
The pressure to post constantly, not the tools, produces AI slop. Using AI to think rather than to write is a different practice with different work.
