Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s time to reduce funding to police and reallocate those dollars to more proactive ways to reduce crime
Category: Alberta
Albertans ready to fight for fairness and tackle equalization
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta won’t get anything from the feds or the other provinces if Albertans not willing to fight for it
Corporate welfare no way to help the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A comment by Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews sounds like he is getting the same corporate welfare itch that plagued the New Democrats
Alberta should seek more autonomy in health care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Welfare reform in the 1990s provides a starting point for reforming health care today
Hosting NHL playoffs could help Edmonton attract investment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Marketing wins outweigh limited economic benefits for city, province and Oilers, according to U of A sports management researchers
Albertans still waiting for recall, referendum rules
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kenney should fulfil his campaign promise, committing to a culture change and reaffirming the role of citizens as boss
Alberta’s vaping bill fails to protect children, youth
Reading Time: 3 minutes The industry will now be popping champagne: no Alberta nicotine cap, no flavour ban
Samples from Alberta COVID-19 patients stored for future research
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta Precision Laboratories, universities, health foundations and AHS team up to support search for better diagnostics, treatments
Don’t feed the bears! How parks get visitors to protect nature
Reading Time: 4 minutes Interpretive programs can improve visitors’ attitudes about nature-friendly behaviour, but longer-term effects less certain: U of A researchers
Energy industry investment cools dramatically
Reading Time: 3 minutes The oil price crash of recent weeks has triggered a wave of huge exploration and production capital expenditure cuts