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Alberta Venture magazine has named Don Lowry Alberta’s Business Person of the Year for 2010. As President and CEO of Epcor and Chair of Capital Power Inc, Don Lowry’s dynamic leadership has dramatically changed the face of the utilities industry in Alberta. The full story appears in the December issue of Alberta Venture, as well as online at albertaventure.com, beginning December 1, 2010. Lowry’s achievements will also be celebrated at an award luncheon held in Edmonton on January 20, 2011. (more…)

Harper’s Tories can kiss their fortunes goodbye

By Paul Marck

So long, Rona Ambrose. See ya later, Laurie Hawn. Sayonara, James Rajotte. Been nice knowing you, Tim Uppal, Brent Rathgeber, Peter Goldring, Mike Lake, and maybe Rob Merrifield. Your leader, Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, has just made you  collateral damage in next spring’s federal election, courtesy of the government’s cowardly decision not to back the Edmonton Expo 2017 bid.

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Having insider status with the Alberta government sends the wrong message

By Paul Marck

I sense a creeping takeover. When Alberta’s energy minister, Ron Liepert, said last week that he has an informal kitchen cabinet of advisors for the energy sector — and then refused to name them, I was offended as an Albertan and as a journalist. That complete and utter lack of transparency spoke to many things about the way our government operates and raised plenty of questions about such things as motives, influence, rewards, perceptions — the list goes on. (more…)

‘Honey, I don’t know why you are so suspicious’

By Paul Marck

“Hi Honey, I’m home.

“How was my day? Let me tell you about the crowd I’m running around with. There are 25 women, all rich, powerful and influential. I just need to see them more often, you know.

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Did the last boom teach Alberta anything?

By Paul Marck

I was asked this week if there are any lessons to be learned from the last boom, the one that begat an orgy of spending in the oil sands, with companies overpaying for everything from labour to materials to hotel rooms. My fervant hope was that we have learned something. But I cannot help but get an uncomfortable feeling that maybe we have not learned anything at all.

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