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As we were putting the finishing touches on our Money Issue last month, I got a call from a money manager here in Edmonton. He and his partner wanted to take me out for coffee and explain about their passive investing philosophy. (more…)

“A minute into our first phone call, Sellery was telling me I had it all wrong.” (more…)

As Larry Pollock himself put it, there was some irony that he was being honoured as Alberta’s Business Person of the Year the same day that his fellow bankers on Wall Street were being hauled before Congress and whacked with a new “Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee.” (more…)

In December I spent the better part of a week reading and an entire work day judging (with three others) the more than 60 applications for this year’s Alberta’s Best Workplaces competition. (The winners and finalists will be revealed in the March issue.) Frankly I have reason to be crabby. (more…)

With the largest and most important climate-change conference in history still going on in Copenhagen as I write this, what are we to make of “Climategate”? (more…)

These days nearly as many people visit albertaventure.com in a month as subscribe to the magazine. And though there is some overlap between the two groups, most absorb our content through one medium or the other, not both. (more…)

Overshadowed by the malaise in Alberta’s natural gas industry in recent months has been a quiet revival in the oilsands. (more…)

The November issue represents the 50^th I’ve worked on as Alberta Venture’s editor. In that time I’ve seen four art directors, five assistant editors and five company receptionists, so I’m feeling long in the tooth even though in solar timekeeping it’s only been four and a half years. (more…)

We’re in the process now of putting together our annual “Best and Worst” feature for the December issue and, oh, what a year it’s been. Choosing our top 10 business stories of the year has never been so competitive. Do you go for the arrest of Calgary’s $400-million Ponzi schemers or Capital Power Corporation’s $500-million initial public offering? (more…)

No sooner had we dispatched our October issue, featuring a special report on innovation, to the printers than some counterintuitive news came to light. In contrast to the history of technology companies, ideas and talent leaving the province – a fact we sought solutions to in our cover story, “Building the Economy of Ideas” – we learned that Radient Technologies Inc. was relocating its operations from Ontario and British Columbia to the Edmonton Research Park. (more…)