The Fence Around Elk Island Left Forty Bison Behind
Ottawa bought the Pablo-Allard herd in 1907 and meant to move it to Wainwright. Roughly forty bison were never caught, and their descendants have rebuilt herds on three continents.
Alberta Charges For The Equipment And Nothing For The Data
Alberta charges large data centres a levy of up to 2% on computing equipment value. No provincial instrument prices or measures the data those machines process.
Rural Businesses Use AI At Less Than Half The Urban Rate
Statistics Canada puts rural business AI use at 9.9% against 21.0% urban. Run the series backwards and the rural rate is climbing at the same multiple as the urban one.
The 1947 Lesson Alberta Is About To Be Offered Again
Ten years after Leduc No. 1, Alberta held 85% of Canada crude reserves and $625 million in royalties. Business AI use here now runs 18.4% against 19.2% nationally.
The Grid Is The Bottleneck And Alberta Rations It Too
Alberta capped interim large load connections at 1,200 megawatts and allocated all of it to two projects, against more than 16 gigawatts of requests and a record peak of 12,785…
The Nashville Number Calgary Keeps Quoting Is An Airport
The US$28.3 billion figure being quoted for Nashville music is a Tennessee airport study. Alberta published a better music number in April 2026 and almost nobody has used it.
Alberta Firms Pay The Counter Tariff Bill To Ottawa
The United States Surtax Order (2026) took effect 8 September at 15%, 25% and 50% by schedule. The importer of record pays it, and in Alberta that is a shop…
Medicine Hat Has Sold Its Own Gas For 125 Years
Bylaw 48 put Medicine Hat into the natural gas business in September 1901 and returned more than $600 million over forty years. A 2024 KPMG review told the city to…
The Toll Math Behind Alberta’s Proposed West Coast Pipeline
An IEEFA assessment published 1 September 2026 models an $18.70 a barrel initial toll on Alberta proposed West Coast pipeline. The toll argument holds. The demand argument picks one IEA…
Alberta’s History Is Disappearing Faster Than We Can Digitize It
Alberta’s history is scattered across museum shelves, filing cabinets, family albums and private collections. FOLKLY is building a pilot to help local custodians preserve, connect and share those records without…
