An energy company’s attempt to set up a Bitcoin mine against a landowner’s wishes on land it leased for extracting natural gas has been quashed at the Court of King’s Bench. 

In a March 10 decision, Justice Christopher A. Rickards ruled that Persist Oil and Gas violated the terms of its lease with plaintiff Roy Flowers, who’s owned the land since 2012, ordering the company to shut the mine down.

Who is Danielle Smith without Justin Trudeau?

The federal Liberals held their leadership vote this weekend and picked economist and ur-banker Mark Carney, which means a lot of Albertans are going to have to switch the stickers on their trucks.

A year after hiring a lobbying firm with close ties to the governing UCP to advocate on its behalf, Shoppers Drug Mart scored a $2.5-million agreement with Alberta Health Services (AHS) to provide mandatory COVID-19 tests for international travellers.

One of the AHS officials who signed off on that agreement is Blayne Iskiw, a director and shareholder of a company at the centre of allegations that the UCP government pressured AHS to accept inflated contracts to operate chartered surgical facilities.

Dr. Wing Li from Support Our Students and Chris Gallaway from Friends of Medicare join Jim and Jeremy to dissect Alberta's 2025 budget.

Alberta’s 2025 budget is high on rhetoric but low on detail when it comes to plans for the new, “refocused” system of health-care agencies that will replace Alberta Health Services (AHS).

New education funding outlined in the 2025/26 budget continues to fall behind the Alberta government’s own estimate of inflation and population growth, with the exception of subsidies for private schools and early childhood education centres.

One of the biggest recipients of nursing contracts from Alberta Health Services (AHS) over the past two years is a British company that has subsidiaries in the U.S., Canada, Australia, China and Japan. Another is a company co-owned by a self-published author and motivational speaker that might not be registered to operate in Alberta. 

Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government, up to its figurative eyeballs in the murky and still-growing AHS procurement scandal, haven’t had much time to wage media war against the education support workers who continue to strike for better pay and working conditions in Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray and elsewhere.

But that doesn’t mean their allies outside of the Legislature aren’t on the job. Spotted in the wild this week: a conservative Christian lobby group trying to convince Albertans that private schools are somehow more “accountable” than the public system.

Kim Siever joins us on the pod to talk about his labour-focused journalism with The Alberta Worker, and we chat for a bit about the still-developing AHS procurement scandal and Alberta's gigantic and ongoing education strike.

Working as a travel nurse involves some major trade-offs, sacrificing a pension and paid sick days for flexibility as a “private contractor,” says a nurse from Edmonton who worked for several agencies in Halifax after experiencing pandemic burnout in 2022.