#Alberta 's online gambling market goes live Monday. Here's a look at the multi-year corporate lobbying campaign that shaped the province's regulations. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Alberta education policy blocks child abuse prevention programs in schools ‘Due to the recent changes to the AB Education Act, our free presentations are temporarily unavailable’ theijf.org/article/albe...

Alberta Education’s strict requirements for learning resources and external presenters related to human sexuality, sexual orientation or gender identity have blocked child abuse prevention programming from classrooms. zurl.co/sgfnd

Alberta education policy blocks child abuse prevention programs in schools ‘Due to the recent changes to the AB Education Act, our free presentations are temporarily unavailable’ theijf.org/article/albe...

New from the revolving door files: Spokesperson for Alberta health ministry now lobbying for Big Tobacco, Pharma theijf.org/brief/press-...

She used to speak for Alberta’s health ministry. Now she’s pitching to ministry heads on behalf of the tobacco and pharmaceutical giants and healthcare companies. zurl.co/t1EHU

Private schools and childcare companies were top donors to the Alberta education minister’s constituency association. zurl.co/ZTpNY

Hey, just in case you need to hear it, you should totally leak information to Alberta journalists. The good ones are good with secrets. Tell a friend. #ableg.

Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status Auditors allege HR Canada Charitable Organization acted as a ‘conduit’ for HonestReporting Canada, carried out no charity work

Publicly, the UCP have said they won't take beds away from voluntary addiction recovery centres in Edmonton to make space for the province's forthcoming forced treatment program. Internal Recovery Alberta docs tell a different story. zurl.co/IRjG4

Alberta won the 2025 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy after the Alberta Information and Privacy Commission found the provincial government had repeatedly violated its own freedom of information laws. cfe.torontomu.ca/index%2ephp/...

Publicly, the UCP have said they won't take beds away from voluntary addiction recovery centres in Edmonton to make space for the province's forthcoming forced treatment program. Internal Recovery Alberta docs tell a different story. zurl.co/IRjG4

Documents obtained by the IJF show Alberta’s government is considering converting space in voluntary addiction treatment centres in Edmonton into involuntary treatment beds to support forthcoming ‘compassionate intervention’ legislation. zurl.co/IRjG4

Today, we launched the Free Access for Journalists program: free access to the IJF’s 23 million+ rows of public interest data for reporters across Canada. Learn more about this program and check your eligibility today: theijf.org/free-access-...

SCOOP: I obtained the itinerary and other documents relating to Edmonton police Chief Warren Driechel’s February 2026 Israel trip. @mbueckert.bsky.social of @cjpme.org says it’s “much worse than any of us expected.” open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

B.C. and Ontario have enacted laws that extend some protections to gig workers, and platform giants like Uber and DoorDash appear to be lobbying to keep similar policies from being adopted in other provinces. #bclab #onlab

Uber and DoorDash are lobbying to keep Alberta and Saskatchewan from introducing employment protections for gig workers. DoorDash has also donated thousands to Sask. political parties. zurl.co/b6rRD

Companies lobbying Sask. government also major party donors

Now we know why police seized phones of ex-mayor Gondek and Calgary councillors. Police investigating money-for-voting allegations and the head of a major private-sector development planning firm. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Check out the video from my collab w/ @alexanderquon.bsky.social and CBC Sask.

NEW: Some of the largest funders of Sask. political parties are companies with no public profile. I went through corporate registries in three provinces to find out who was behind them, and found 5/6 of the top donations to the Sask. Part last year trace back to one influential family. zurl.co/23RQH

For most of the last ten years, corporations, unions, etc. were barred from funding political parties, so there isn't a long term analysis possible. Though the influence of corporate money in politics was immediately obvious when brought back last year: thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Do you have $10,000 to spare? The Saskatchewan Party took in the most political contributions in 2025, but the largest individual, corporate, and union donations went to the NDP. zurl.co/SXz8l

NEW: Some of the largest funders of Sask. political parties are companies with no public profile. I went through corporate registries in three provinces to find out who was behind them, and found 5/6 of the top donations to the Sask. Part last year trace back to one influential family. zurl.co/23RQH

Hundred of thousands of dollars pass through cryptically named corporate accounts to Sask. political parties. Here’s our look into the system used to mask the identities of big political donors. zurl.co/23RQH

At the Smith government’s passenger train plan release. All aboard to 2056!

The latest deal between Alberta and Canada promises big emissions reductions through carbon capture. Or does it? As @drewanderson.bsky.social reports, the carbon capture project underpinning the deal has drastically reduced its ambitions. thenarwhal.ca/oilsands-pat...

While walking through a native prairie in an Alberta conservation area where he worked, Jacob Fercho found a delicate, rare ecosystem. Brett McKay writes. #alberta thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

An Alberta conservationist says he was fired after he raised concerns about the loss of native grassland. zurl.co/I3D4E

Albertans fighting on a lot of fronts www.theenergymix.com/hundreds-of-...

A memorial forest to be planted in partnership with a funeral home will cover part of the conservation area's native grassland previously identified as the most threatened environment on the property.

How MAGA and regressive is Alberta? This...👇 Alberta’s most banned books of 2026: theijf.org/article/albe... via @theijf.org Banned: - 1984 - Watchmen - The Handmaid’s Tale - Flamer - V for Vendetta - Blankets Dark Age 2.0

V for Vendetta, Blankets, Watchmen: Here are the books banned by the most Alberta school divisions zurl.co/Wjm2c

Albertans are starting to organize, demanding governments establish adequate regulations and provide sufficient information on the risks artificial intelligence and its outsized homes pose. @ximenaka.bsky.social reports. #abpoli #AI

SCOOP: Premier Danielle Smith appointee to Invest Alberta's board is not an accredited accountant, despite claiming so for more than a decade: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend

Pro-coal citizens group hid role of lobbyist, strategist on campaign Brett McKay, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter for St. Albert Gazette www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/p...

Local woman looking forward to 23 days between harsh winter and uncontrollable wildfires

In the first three months of 2026 alone, the CRA revoked the registrations of five charities with connections to retired Vancouver lawyer Blake Bromley and his firm, the Benefic Group. Another four were revoked last year. zurl.co/YLlhJ

The company picked to expand private surgical services in Saskatchewan gave $5,000 to the province’s governing party in 2025, and has contributed more than $35,500 since first being contracted. zurl.co/3vb3Z

Edmonton City Coun. @aaronpaquette.bsky.social — "The state should not be stepping in to act as the universal gatekeeper for families who are perfectly capable of making those choices." #yeg #yegcc #ableg #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

The Canadian Mining Journal retracted a lengthy article that quoted made-up people and cited made-up facts about deep-sea mining. Observers aren't surprised.

In several provinces, international students have access to public healthcare at no additional cost. In BC, however, they have to pay. And those fees have amounted to more than $400 million since 2020. pressprogress.ca/internationa...

This would be a good time for a pollster to ask Albertans whether they would prefer the RCMP, or the UCP govt's proposed provincial police service, to be investigating the voter list privacy breach, and the massive ongoing procurement scheme scandal. Which police service would you trust more?

My latest investigation is out. A well-known Canadian digital strategy firm has begun openly selling "surrogate online communities" of social media users to undisclosed clients. The users come for the viral content and are pushed up an "activation ladder." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/i...

Alberta's privacy commissioner calls for law changes after alleged voter list breach by separatists Updates to come: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Important new information on who knew what when. substack.com/@jengerson/n...

Wiiiiild *Elections Alberta gets court injunction for separatist group to pull down its searchable voter list *Court told the list was provided by Republican Party of Alberta, an upstart separatist party *Unauthorized use of voter list: Really, really illegal! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chuffed to say I've been nominated for a National Magazine Award for investigative reporting, for this look into who owns delinquent oil and gas wells in Alberta. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilp...