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Monday, July 6: Elections Alberta announces it will begin verifying the signatures collected for “A Referendum Relating to Alberta Independence.” The separatists’ petition was initially quashed by the Court of King’s Bench, but a subsequent Court of Appeal partial stay decision means counting can begin.
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Monday, June 29: Court of Appeal Justice Alice Woolley rules the process of verifying signatures on Stay Free Alberta’s referendum petition can resume and results can be reported to the public. The decision follows a lower court ruling last month that had quashed the petition.
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How is this fair?” That thought may have crossed your mind when filling up at the pump as the price of oil soared last winter after the US and Israel attacked Iran. Here you were, living in an oil-rich province where energy companies were suddenly awash in windfall profits. Where your government was raking in tens of millions of dollars in unanticipated royalties. An...
Alberta writer Robert Kroetsch once said he believed that “Books find their writers.” A book will come into being when it finds the writer most likely for the story. Viewed from this perspective, the Porcupine caribou herd found Karsten Heuer to tell their story in his 2007 book, Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd, and his life partner, Leanne All...
In a cold Alberta spring morning a wild colt takes its first steps up the face of a mountain. For generations, horses have roamed free here. They do so under the hungry gaze of grizzlies, wolves and cougars. Each newborn learns to trim their own hooves on the edge of rocks and to forage for grass. There is no warm barn, no bedding, no humans to protect them. Yet they survive....