Recent Research
When Bill 11 passed in December 2025, Alberta became the first province to legislate two-tier health care — a system that gives faster access to those who can pay and longer waits for those who can’t afford to jump the queue — for medically necessary services. This report shows how the Health Statutes Amendment Act puts Canadian medicare at risk and opens the door for American health insurance corporations to enter the Canadian market.
Alberta’s Union Advantage
Wages, Equity, and the Power of Collective Bargaining
Despite years of conservative governments undermining labour rights and restricting collective bargaining, the union wage advantage — the gap between average earnings of unionized and non-unionized workers — remains strong in Alberta. This report draws on new data to show how unionization strengthens wages and benefits while promoting fairness for women, immigrants, and precarious workers across the province.
Recent Blog Posts
In a health-care emergency, wait times can be a matter of life or death. A recent visit to the Emergency Department at an Edmonton hospital highlighted the degree to which the long list of policies implemented by the Alberta government — ostensibly intended to fix health care — have only served to exacerbate the overlapping crises facing the system.
The West Wants Out
A Manufactured Threat From an Old Playbook
Alberta separatism is all over the news — but is it an emerging threat or just a rehash of the many separatist waves that hit Western Canada in the past? This article examines the history of separatism and so-called western alienation, and argues that it's never been a real threat, but rather a tool used by governing parties to win concessions for their friends and distract from their own policy failures.
Expensive by Design
How UCP Policies Sabotage Affordability in Alberta
Underfunding education, privatizing health care, and relying on deregulated, private electricity generation are just a few of the UCP policy choices deepening the affordability crisis in the province. In Alberta, private market interests always come first. Helping struggling Albertans, apparently, isn’t even part of the list.