VP Research Marco Navarro-Genie shows how Alberta’s public, free, and outperforming charter schools have succeeded for 30 years by offering real choice, academic focus, and freedom from bureaucratic and union strangleholds. Other provinces should take notes.
Marco Navarro-Genie writes that Canadians are voting with their feet and choosing Alberta. But trade barriers, ideology and even banking rules could bring that freedom to a halt
Research VP Marco Navarro-Genie argues Alberta must replace the RCMP with a provincial police force rooted in local values, accountable to Albertan—not Ottawa—warning that anything less risks replicating the RCMP’s centralist, politicized failures.
In a fiery takedown of Alberta sovereigntists, Jann Arden may have poured gas on the sovereignty fire instead of dousing it. Lee Harding argues that her vulgar swipe ignored Alberta’s raw deal in Confederation, from lopsided equalization to federal overreach, and only deepens Western alienation. Rather than shaming Albertans into silence, her outburst might push them closer to the exit.
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Trudeau: “They should also put their country first, as every single premier — except Danielle Smith — did.” Smith: “His Dad crushed the lives of thousands in our province…we won’t let his son do it to our people again. Never.” What if the unthinkable...
Strong and Free is Morton’s autobiography, and a classic study of Alberta politics. Once a generation or so, a book re-sets the agenda on understanding Alberta politics. The first of these was C.B. Macpherson’s 1953 volume, Democracy in Alberta; the second was...
Is anyone paying attention? Canada is heading straight for an economic iceberg, and the rest of the country doesn’t seem to grasp the gravity of the situation. Alberta – long the engine of Canada’s prosperity thanks to its oil and gas sector – is facing a serious...
An analysis of Alberta’s labour market highlights how political leadership shaped (and hurt) its economic environment
Backgrounder
You can build a lot of reactors or HELE coal plants with CCS for a lot less
Saturday night, the middle of the cold snap, was something to be endured
The 2004 Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and two American states, North Dakota and Minnesota. It sums up a jurisdiction’s key tax rates – the top provincial marginal...