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You would think that after a brilliant career serving in deputy ministerial positions provincially and federally, working as a G7 deputy, teaching at the university level and helping to establish the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing – all of it capped off by an Order of Canada award – Paul Boothe would be ready to […]
No one needs to tell Zak Biggs to think globally. He long ago took it way beyond that – he acts globally. Biggs is a Research Coordinator specializing in international policy and trade at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, and the initiatives he has helped create have sent ripples of change across […]
The insolvency community experienced a shock in February 2019, when the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) overturned the decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal in Orphan Well Association v Grant Thornton Limited (Redwater).[1] Tensions had been simmering since the 1990s between Alberta’s oil and gas regulator, now called the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), and […]
Written by: Fenner L Stewart and Keely Cameron
In common with all developed nations and jurisdictions around the globe, Alberta continues to experience a growing issue with cancer as its population grows and ages. The number of new cancer cases in the province in anticipated to grow from 18,000 in 2017 (Canadian Cancer Society Statustics) to 27,000 by 2030 (Alberta Cancer Plan 2013-2030). […]
Written by: Colum Smith
Canadians tend to blush and swoon whenever some foreign notable heaps praise on the country. Bono, then Obama before the Canadian Parliament, sent the country into a collective eye lash flutter with “the World needs more Canada”. After the 300-strong Canadian delegation to the Paris climate conference in 2015 dazzled the other delegates with our […]
Written by: Robert Skinner