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Sel Healy says she was appalled when the Alberta government sent her husband a letter in June saying he’d be included in a new public teacher registry set to go live in September. That’s because Michael “Joe” Healy, a long-time math and science teacher at Calgary’s Bishop Carroll High School, …
Read More »Alberta’s committee report on EMS system is delayed. What changes do you want to see?
Alberta’s EMS system is under considerable stress, and has been for some time. Similar problems are being felt across the country. And though various attempted fixes are being applied — like the $64 million allocated to EMS in this year’s provincial budget — the shortages are having real impacts now. Alberta is awaiting a …
Read More »Investment in Alberta’s tech sector soars
Several Calgary-based tech companies are planning to hire more people and expand their office space as hundreds of millions of dollars flow into the sector. Through the first half of the year, Alberta has attracted nearly $500 million in investment, according to briefed.in. “We’re growing very, very quickly,” said Nic Beique, …
Read More »Here’s how caribou matchmaking — and a stud book — could help save Alberta’s dwindling herds
A careful kind of matchmaking will guide a last-resort effort to restore Jasper National Park’s vanishing herds of woodland caribou. With the park’s remaining herds considered too small to survive, Parks Canada plans to capture females — along with a small roster of bulls — and breed them in captivity. …
Read More »Judge throws out lawsuit against Alberta’s chief electoral officer
A Queen’s Bench justice has tossed out a lawsuit from a former MLA who claimed Alberta’s chief electoral officer interfered with his campaign and maliciously prosecuted him. Joe Anglin, the former MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, says he plans to appeal the ruling, which concluded Anglin was misusing the courts …
Read More »Officials, former politicians pitch a path to net-zero with Alberta’s economy in mind
In the Alberta government’s latest fiscal update Tuesday, skyrocketing oil and gas prices led the way to a $3.9-billion surplus, a figure that will lead to much debate over what to do with such a large cash influx. Perhaps in an instance of good timing, media personalities, former politicians and industry officials …
Read More »Inflation’s bite is big. Alberta’s capacity to help is bigger
This column is an opinion by Trevor Tombe, a University of Calgary economist. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ. Inflation is high — not just in Alberta and Canada, but throughout the world. It reached its highest rate since 1983 this May, when Statistics Canada found average consumer prices were 7.7 …
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