Fort Calgary and How a Mounted Police Post Became the City of Calgary
F Troop rode in from Fort Macleod in August 1875 under Inspector Brisebois, and the post was renamed Fort Calgary by 1876 at James Macleod's suggestion.
Agentic AI Is Already Here. The Next Three Years for Alberta.
AI agents execute multi-step workflows across systems, decide within set parameters and run without prompting, changing what capability organizations need.
Forget the Recession Label. Watch What Business Is Doing
Statistics Canada reported shrinking real output into early 2026, with negative prints in three of the past four quarters, and two numbers matter more.
The Imperial Bank of Canada Building and How Calgary Got Its First Real Bank in 1886
The Imperial Bank of Canada built its sandstone Stephen Avenue branch in 1886 and 1887, designed by the Toronto architecture firm of Darling and Pearson.
Alberta Went Looking for Allies and Found Quebec City
Premier Danielle Smith met Premier Christine Fréchette in Quebec City to discuss autonomy, trade, investment and an east-west energy corridor between them.
Robert Rundle and Alberta’s First Protestant Inland Mission on Pigeon Lake
Methodist missionary Robert Terrill Rundle founded the first Protestant inland mission in what is now Alberta on Pigeon Lake in 1847, seven years on.
The Caesar, Ginger Beef and Other Things Alberta Invented
Calgary bartender Walter Chell mashed clams into nectar in 1969 to launch a restaurant at the Calgary Inn, and the Caesar is only one Alberta workaround.
Alberta’s Next Resource Boom Is Hiding in Oilfield Brine
The Alberta Geological Survey pegs the in-place endowment at 82.5 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, most of it in the Devonian Leduc rock.
Alberta Producers Pay a Carbon Tax No Competitor Faces
The oil sands industry group judged the revised industrial carbon framework uncompetitive, since no other major petroleum producing nation imposes the same.
Read Your Pay Stub Before You Thank Ottawa for the Tax Cut
The budget watchdog puts the federal income tax cut at about $190 a person in 2026, while mandatory payroll deductions climbed as much as $262 for many.
