There’s a quiet sigh of almost-relief in the obstreperous province of Alberta. We’ve survived our latest political tornado, although the most recent was hardly the [...]
Reinie Jobin, a stocky 68-year-old with porcupine- quill hair, drives along a rutted road beside the community of Little Buffalo. He stops at regular intervals to point out oil and gas wells, [...]
As the summer barbecue season of 2006 faded into fall, that legendary Alberta optimism took an unexpectedly cranky turn. The biggest boom in history was rolling over the province, bringing jobs [...]
