Alberta Keeps Making Its Case To People Who Agree
Alberta has a strong economic case on energy, investment and taxes, but repeating it inside Alberta produces confirmation rather than federal persuasion.
Five Million Albertans Still Share Six Senate Seats
Statistics Canada put Alberta at 5.05 million people in April 2026. Alberta holds six Senate seats while Nova Scotia, at 1.09 million, holds ten of them.
Alberta Businesses Lead the Country in Interprovincial Sales
Statistics Canada found 31.9% of Alberta businesses sell into other provinces, the highest share in Canada, within $527 billion of interprovincial trade.
Alberta Has A Smaller Way To Build AI Infrastructure
Alberta already runs distributed infrastructure at wellsites and substations, which points to smaller AI data centre builds instead of gigawatt campuses.
A Second AI Giant Is Circling Alberta’s Data Centre Boom
Anthropic posted a Compute Country Lead role for Canada and an Alberta based community engagement job, pointing at gigawatts of new data centre capacity.
The Longview Silversmith Who Ended Up on a Canadian Stamp
Scott Hardy spends more than 65 hours cutting a three-piece belt buckle set by hand at his bench in Longview, Alberta, one graver stroke at a time.
Ask Which Number Before You Believe Anybody
Which dataset, which policy, which baseline year. Three specific questions expose how much of Canadian public argument cannot answer any of them at all.
Ottawa Cut 12,683 Positions and the Payroll Went Up
Treasury Board counted 345,282 federal employees at the end of March against 357,965 a year earlier, yet total federal compensation spending still rose.
Alberta Draws Zero While Quebec Collects Half the Equalization Pot
The 2026-27 equalization pot holds $27.16 billion and Quebec's share is $13.907 billion. Alberta's line has read zero every year since 2017-18.
The Toll Decision That Settles Who Pays for a $34 Billion Line
Kinder Morgan pencilled Trans Mountain at $5.4 billion in 2013 and it entered service near $34 billion. The Canada Energy Regulator now decides who pays.
