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Opinion: Northback’s miracle Grassy Mountain coal mine

Opinion: Northback’s miracle Grassy Mountain coal mine

Northback says 2.5 million tonnes of steelmaking coal will be produced each year by reopening operations at old mines on Grassy Mountain. This would...

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Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: A tale of two neighbourhoods - Bridgeland and Parkhill

Opinion: A tale of two neighbourhoods - Bridgeland and Parkhill

Article content A battle has been waged in recent months between the residents of Erlton, Parkhill, Rideau and Roxboro and the developer behind a...

21.08.2026 10

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: The strike is over; Alberta's aviation access problem is not

Opinion: The strike is over; Alberta's aviation access problem is not

Calgary’s airport is having a record run. In 2025, YYC handled 19.4 million travellers and offered 108 non-stop destinations. That growth...

18.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Canada can build major projects faster without sacrificing nature protections

Canada can build major projects faster without sacrificing nature protections

Wildfires raging in Canada this summer not only underscore the severe threat that climate change poses to the country’s ecosystems, but also...

15.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Status quo the greatest threat to Canadian health care

Opinion: Status quo the greatest threat to Canadian health care

If there’s one thing we don’t need, it’s more of the same. In 2025, patients endured a median wait of 28.6 weeks from referral to treatment, and...

15.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

The Northern Advantage: Why Canada needs a second gateway beyond Lower Mainland

The Northern Advantage: Why Canada needs a second gateway beyond Lower Mainland

The announcement in early July from the Prime Minister’s Office — confirming that Canada and Alberta will advance a new West Coast pipeline...

15.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: We survived the fire. Who will help us survive the recovery?

“No one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself.”

14.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Alberta Voices: Paul Barsketis - A teacher's perspective on why Canadian unity matters

Canadian unity is deeply personal to me. I was born in Canada as a first-generation Canadian. My family came here as refugees after fleeing the Nazi...

13.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Canada is worth your wildhood

Over the past year, something remarkable has happened in Canada. We cheered on the Toronto Blue Jays during their World Series run, welcomed the world...

08.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

After Extraction: Why Alberta needs a closure plan for AI data centres

Alberta is on the verge of another industrial boom. AI data centres are being proposed across the province, with promises of jobs, investment and...

08.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Amid entrepreneurial drought, Alberta’s small businesses grapple with rising costs

As Alberta should be moving back toward fiscal stability and surplus territory with this year’s elevated oil prices, many small business owners are...

08.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Alberta needs to park no-fault insurance plan

If you are injured by a negligent motorist in Alberta, you have the right to compensation from the at-fault driver’s insurance company for your pain...

07.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: What China’s 'oil fortress' means for Canada’s West Coast bet

When the U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Feb. 28 and the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, most analysts expected Beijing to be among the biggest...

05.08.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: City council is making the housing crisis worse for people with disabilities

When it comes to building new housing in Calgary, almost everyone has something to complain about. For some it’s not fast enough; for others it’s...

04.08.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Alberta Voices-Andrew Kemle: Canada’s problems don’t justify separatism

Alberta separatists default to the following argument: Canada lost $1 trillion in capital flight, manufacturing is going south of the border and our...

28.07.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: The most important capital markets news last week was the one few noticed

Last week brought one of the more consequential shifts in Canadian capital markets in some time. Ontario agreed to join the country’s securities...

25.07.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: The dangerous distraction of Alberta’s bike lane debate

Why is the province trying to fuel a cars-versus-bikes debate? Transportation planners are asking, after Premier Danielle Smith’s government...

25.07.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: The slow death of Canadian local news

A nation that stops producing and consuming its own media isn't just losing an industry. It's quietly outsourcing its own sense of self.

25.07.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

'Running to failure': Multibillion-dollar funding gap leaves city infrastructure at risk

The Alberta Roadbuilders and Heavy Construction Association (ARHCA) ran a clever — and somewhat cheeky — ad campaign during Stampede, aimed at...

22.07.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Alberta sovereignty: Officially give up? Why not negotiate instead?

The non-binding referendum scheduled for October offers Alberta risk-free leverage in Ottawa.

21.07.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Alberta Voices-Sabine Brasok: Seniors for Independence lays out its arguments for separatism

Seniors for Independence lays out its arguments for separatism

18.07.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Beyond the rodeo: How the Calgary Stampede can help end global hunger

Every July, the city of Calgary undergoes a dramatic transformation, with rodeos, parades, and celebrations of Western heritage that bring thousands...

18.07.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Missing voices: What are youth learning about recovery and asking for help?

As Alberta invests in recovery and public safety, one question keeps arising as I read the headlines: What are children and young people learning...

17.07.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Recycling a TV costs $2.75. Why Is Alberta charging $14 for a solar panel?

In Alberta, recycling an old television costs $2.75. Starting Oct. 1, recycling a solar panel — made of roughly 80 per cent glass, with an aluminum...

17.07.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: While employers search for talent, Canada overlooks half a million workers

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16.07.2026 20

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Opinion: My Alberta believes in the common good: Why we need to vote 'No'

I want to live in a province where every person, regardless of how they came to be here, is treated as a human being worthy of dignity and respect. In...

04.07.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Former concert producer says council got it right

I am Calgary-born and raised. I learned to put on concerts here, and I have put on a lot of them.

04.07.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Smith needs to set six conditions for Alberta to prosper within Canada

Alberta’s separation referendum will be profoundly impacted by the outcome of the negotiation between Danielle Smith and Mark Carney on climate...

30.06.2026 20

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Canada Day quiz: How well do you know this country?

Travel writer and Calgary author Will Ferguson is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Popular History: Pierre Berton Award, and a...

30.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: My Canada is not for sale

The president of the United States cannot have my country because my Canada is a snow-covered cenotaph in a small town, where the names of the fallen...

27.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: The $100 deception: Does the premier think Albertans can’t do math?

It takes a remarkable amount of political audacity to change your own law on the fly, but Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP government just did it...

27.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Alberta's shelter funding cuts ignore realities of rural domestic violence

On May 20, Alberta’s Ministry of Children and Family Services announced a new “needs-based” funding model for shelters providing services to...

26.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Cyclists need more than 'wear a helmet' to be safe on city streets

City needs to make changes to ensure cyclists are safe riding our streets

25.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: With CUSMA review, the three critical things to understand

Explaining — or even just bottom-lining — all the complexities in the review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) that begins this week is...

24.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Independence would mean loss of portable health benefits

Premier Danielle Smith has estimated that startup costs for an independent Alberta would be about $400 billion.

23.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Canada is redrawing its alliances; it forgot to look inward first

My friend is a vascular surgeon. Back home, his waiting list ran six months. Patients flew from three countries to see him. In Calgary, he drives a...

17.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Real risk of average voters tuning out the political rhetoric on both sides

Like it or not, we are now in the most important political campaign in Alberta’s history. Amid all the hysterics of politicians and commentators,...

16.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Alberta's most underestimated economic engine is women

Every day, women in Alberta and across Canada perform work so foundational to our economy that the country barely notices it.

09.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Health care needs to be on the list of things to figure out if Alberta separates

On Monday, Premier Danielle Smith had a laundry list of things that would need to be figured out if Alberta separated from Canada — our share of the...

06.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: A federation at crossroads: Alberta’s case for equality in Canada

For years, Alberta has been told its frustrations are exaggerated or rooted in partisanship. But the truth is far simpler and far more structural —...

06.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: 'Duty to consult' court ruling causes major uncertainty for pipelines

An Alberta King’s bench judge’s decision that a proposed referendum question supporting separation is unconstitutional because the province had a...

06.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Calgary can drop the climate declaration, but not the responsibility

Calgary has never been a city that got stronger by pretending risks were smaller than it is.

06.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Canadians must reform the CPP or risk its breakup

The people of Alberta need a new children’s hospital. They got American urology clinics instead.

05.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Heritage neighbourhood gets short end of traffic shortcutting

Rideau-Roxboro has been one community since 1928. However, the city has a curious tendency to split it into two communities when it suits its needs,...

04.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Alberta can lead on connected-vehicle cybersecurity

Despite indications to the contrary, Canadians do agree on some things. Most of us assume that if a vehicle is legally sold, registered, insured and...

03.06.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: The believers in the Global Energy Show were right

Fourteen years ago, I moved to Calgary. I didn’t grow up in the oilpatch, although my father was a veteran of the energy industry. I came for work,...

02.06.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: New Banff park visitor centre should not be politicized

Canadians should welcome the possibility of a project by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma taking shape in Banff National Park. But not if the...

30.05.2026 50

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Canada needs to address predatory rental practices targeting international students

The period between May and September typically sees a higher volume of tenant turnover in major cities across Canada. It is also the season when many...

30.05.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: Alberta's referendum debate is missing the financial questions that matter most

When politicians debate Alberta separation, they talk about pipelines, equalization and constitutional authority. Those are real debates. But for most...

30.05.2026 30

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Opinion: As a cyclist, I think bike lanes are 'a scourge'

I’ve cycled around Calgary since I can remember. From a chair on the back of my dad’s bike to exercising and running errands today, I’ve used...

30.05.2026 50

Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald