The Law Enforcement Review Board (LERB) has ruled that a Calgary cop who received a reprimand for repeatedly using racial slurs was disciplined appropriately, even as it acknowledged that the allegations against him were “not only watered down,” but entirely shorn of substance. 

In August 2021, Const. Gareth Clarke wrote a letter to then-Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld outlining three occasions in which his colleague Const. Andrew Fuhrman used the n-word.

Another key player on Edmonton city council has announced their plans for the upcoming municipal election: Ward O-Day’min councilor Anne Stevenson will be seeking re-election.

The dominant narrative in Canadian politics right now is one of unity—an appeal to rally around the flag in the face of Trump’s ongoing trade war. But things are a little different in Alberta. Here, it seems like everyone wants to talk about splitting up: corporate media has published a flurry of articles recently on separatism on the right, and in the other direction, the Alberta NDP just voted to divorce from their federal party.

A GoFundMe in support of deposed Alberta Health Services (AHS) CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos is providing a platform for several prominent doctors and politicians to continue their criticism of the UCP’s “CorruptCare” procurement scandal.

Wednesday’s hybrid event at the west Edmonton Days Inn featured remarks from Dr. Joe Vipond of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk, past Alberta Medical Association president Dr. Paul Parks and former medical lead for the AHS Indigenous Wellness Core Dr. Esther Tailfeathers.

In the final days of April’s federal election, representatives from several of Alberta’s largest unions rallied at the Alberta Legislature to urge their members to commit to a “Common Front”—and lend a hand to the struggling New Democrats.

The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL), the primary organizers of the event, called it a “Resistance Rally.” That resistance was directed at more than one problem. 

Have we reached the end of the Gillenium? The 20-year president of the Alberta Federation of Labour is up for re-election this Sunday. Jim and Jeremy take a look at the present situation, check out some Gil McGowan campaign literature, and speak to the AFL leadership candidate who didn't ignore our interview request.

Jim and Jeremy chat with veteran Alberta political commentator Dave Cournoyer and NDP MP Blake Desjarlais about 2025's simultaneously dramatic and dull federal election.

The Edmonton Police Service had such difficulty finding volunteers for a ceremony honouring outgoing chief Dale McFee that it had to pay officers overtime and ask EPS lawyers to participate, according to documents obtained through FOIP.

As McFee ended his tenure as Edmonton police chief to become Alberta’s top bureaucrat, the EPS held a changing of command ceremony on Feb. 21 to mark the transfer of power from McFee to interim co-chiefs Warren Dreichel and Devin Laforce, which was followed by a reception in McFee’s honour. 

In this week's belated episode of the Progress Report podcast, Euan Thomson gives us an update on the current status of Canada's drug poisoning polycrisis; also, we chat about the star Liberal candidate in Calgary who was involved in the University of Calgary crackdown on Palestinian solidarity protesters last year.

Things are not going well in Alberta’s health system—especially when it comes to timely access to surgeries. But with the many spoilers of COVID-19, the “refocusing” of AHS into new agencies and now the procurement scandal that the Alberta NDP have been calling “CorruptCare,” diagnosing what exactly is going wrong isn’t easy.

Health policy researcher Andrew Longhurst’s new report for the Parkland Institute, Operation Profit: Private Surgical Contracts Deliver Higher Costs and Longer Waits, attempts to make some sense of the mess. The Progress Report sat down with Longhurst for an interview after his report was released last week so he could walk us through his analysis.