Between the Lines

Business and the 10-Year Plan

In October 29, 2007, Premier Stelmach announced the creation of an Alberta Secretariat for Action on Homelessness. Its mandate: Develop a strategy to end life on the streets in 10 years >

Global Competitiveness on the Shop Floor

How to fix the skilled worker shortage and make Canada a top economy in one step >

The Politics of Power

Rural Alberta lost its voice when Bill 46 took effect >

Business and the 10-Year Plan

Labour shortages and lack of affordable housing are two sides of the same coin >

As I write this article the media is full of stories on the alternative lending or subprime market in the United States. One edition of the Wall Street Journal had so many stories on the subprime sector that it looked more like a special mortgage insert >

A Carbon Rhetoric-Neutral Tax

Unreality plagues discussions of global warming. Since the late 1980s, world leaders have announced a succession of ever-tightening emission targets attached to ever-receding deadlines with ever-weakening intentions of meeting them >

Small Time No More

Alberta’s hockey teams return to action this month following a busier than usual off-season, highlighted by reclusive drugstore billionaire Daryl Katz’s attempt to purchase the Edmonton Oilers >

Chemical Reaction

How can Alberta maintain a viable petrochemical industry in a time of declining natural gas production? The government’s made a good first step >

Trickle-down Economics

Alberta’s oilsands, the world’s largest engineering project, may be getting rave reviews in the corridors of Ottawa and Washington, D.C., as a secure source of oil for the continent >

Rent Control and Other Lunacies

There is no rental housing crisis. Rather, the rental market is changing to be in proportion with the rest of Alberta’s economy, and we are in a period of adjustment >