Alberta Politics

Fetch Headings.ExtraData
Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red logo:

Connexions Library

Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
Climenhaga, David J.
Article
2018
The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
Alberta Oil and the Declince of Democracy in Canada
Shrivastava, Meenal; Stefanick, Lorna (eds.)
Book
2015
If reliance on oil production undermines democratic participation and governance in Canada, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in other industrialized nations?
Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy Decisions: Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings.
Nikiforuk, Andrew
Article
2018
A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.
Democracy in Alberta: Social Credit and the Party System
Macpherson, C.B.
Book
1953
An examination of the development of the party system in Alberta.
Oil Industry Cleanup Costs Vastly Exceed Alberta Government’s Estimates
Article
2018
Transcript of interview with Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta on the cost to clean up after Alberta's tar sand industry.
Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
Serial Publication (Periodical)
Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial min...
Slumming It At the Rodeo: The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
Laird, Gordon
Book
1998
Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these question...
Welcome to the Orwellian world of Wildrose, where keeping your promises makes you a liar
Climehaga, David
Article
2015
Notwithstanding the unexpected election of a New Democratic Party majority government in Alberta last May 5, 2015, it's pretty obvious a lot of Albertans -- especially the business crowd in Calgary --...

Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites

Parliamentary Names & Numbers
Parliamentary Names & Numbers is your guide to governments in Canada. It's an invaluable resource, available online, for anyone who needs information about Canada's politicians, senior bureaucrats, an...

Sources Experts & Spokespersons