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Why Oil-Rich Alberta May Secede From Canada

Economic grievances and political alienation are fueling a separatist movement in the Canadian province just north of Montana.

Tate Kaufman | 5.7.2026 1:55 PM

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Police Abuse

Brickbat: Fancy Meeting You Here

Charles Oliver | 11.7.2024 4:00 AM

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Blood Donors

Canada Inches Closer to Allowing More People To Be Paid for Plasma

For too long, our northern neighbors have depended on plasma imported from the U.S. to meet demand. With the passage of new legislation in Alberta, this may change.

Liz Wolfe | 11.19.2020 10:10 AM

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Keystone XL

Guess Who Just Approved a Pipeline to Transport Canadian Oilsands Crude?

Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, that's who. Does this make Obama look like a chump for nixing Keystone XL?

Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2016 11:55 AM

Politics

The Man-Made Miracle of Oil from Sand

A dispatch from Alberta's oil sands

Ronald Bailey | 8.9.2011 4:30 PM

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