An affidavit filed in court strongly suggests it, as the province defends itself against claims it’s been holding suspects too long without giving them a shot at bail
A couple embroiled in divorce proceedings in Edmonton are arguing over suddenly valuable property: Oilers seats
Calgarians are self-confident enough not to worry that the NHL would abandon them. And unlike Edmonton, the city doesn’t need an arena to revitalize its downtown core
Edmonton, armed with the NHL’s next prodigy and a plan to transform downtown, is fully wrapping its civic identity in its Oilers. Not so much in Calgary.
Colby Cosh on why the Oilers’ off-ice luck hasn’t brought much on-ice success
The five things you need to know about hockey if you don’t need to know everything about hockey
Being an Oiler fan is an exercise in existential ennui. How can one NHL team be this bad for this long?
Alberta now the most tax-friendly
Colby Cosh on what hockey can learn from the NBA
The Oilers’ owner faces a probe over his gift to the Alberta Tories
The Globe and Mail, by means of outstanding spadework, has accounted for the particulars of all of the $430,000 donated to the Alberta Progressive Conservative party in its hour of electoral need by Edmonton Oilers owner and pharmacy magnate Daryl Katz. Actually, David Ebner and Dawn Walton traced the $430,000 and then some—others with close business relationships to Katz, it turns out, contributed to the PC kitty. But even the $430,000 donated this spring, supposedly in the form of a single cheque, represents more than a quarter of the cash raised by the Tories during the 2012 election period. The party managed to raise just $1.6 million—while spending almost $4.7 million protecting its flanks from the upstart Wildrose Party.