A mutant fish with two mouths was caught in northern Alberta, near the Canadian province's Athabasca oil sands...

Small community near Alberta [tar sands] has disproportionate number of bile duct disease...

[...T]hree environmental groups abandoned a nine year-old effort [August 19] to negotiate environmental responsibility in the [tar sands] region.

Ahni

In recent years, the Peguis First Nation, a community of 7,200 in northern Manitoba, has been faced with a drug abuse epidemic. Last fall, [...t]he northern community opted to enact a bylaw that stipulates banishment as a penalty for anyone caught dealing drugs, and that requires all band members to pass a drug-screening test.

Northern and Indian Affairs Canada (INAC) is not impressed.

Jack Woodward and the Beaver Lake Cree aim to change Canadian law -- and their success likely would throw a huge wrench into Alberta's tar-sands oil production.

The suit pits the Beaver Lake Cree band against the governments of Canada and Alberta, asking the court to rule invalid the government authorization for thousands of petroleum projects on the band's core territory.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta, Canada - Eleven Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude’s Aurora North Tar Sands facility north of Fort McMurray today, erecting a banner that transformed the opening of a tailings pond pipe into the “mouth” of a giant skull, spewing toxic sludge. Shortly after 8:00 am, two Greenpeaceers blocked the pipe by shutting down the valve before chaining and locking themselves to the control box.

"Despite what media pundits or columnists may wish to imply, the Mackenzie project and the Alaska gas pipeline are not competing projects. They are two phases of a comprehensive objective that will ensure a secure and stable energy supply for the future."

This alone makes clear the nature of this corporation. They should be earmarked for corporate campaigners against the SPP, 2010 Games and the tar sands themselves.

The Pacific Northwest Economic Region's Energy Horizons project today released a report by Idaho National Laboratory entitled The Cost of NOT Building Transmission. According to the study, if the top 5 projects are not built, it could lead to $55-85 billion in lost economic activity annually, and up to 60,000 jobs annually.

by James Turner - Tuesday, July 22, 2008

A man died Tuesday after being shocked with a Taser by Winnipeg police in a back lane behind a city home...The fatality in Winnipeg is the second Taser-related death in Canada this year. Jeffrey Marreel died June 23 in Norfolk County, about 130 kilometres southwest of Toronto, after being Tasered by Ontario Provincial Police...Since 2003, there have been 21 Taser-related deaths reported in Canada.

By MICHAEL PLATT - July 21, 2008

When you're a white-supremacist group struggling to bolster your foothold in a multicultural city, there's nothing like free cash to pique the interest of those looking to relocate their jackboots...To the disgust of those who don't subscribe to racial purity, Calgary's Aryan Guard is offering to cover the damage deposit of any white supremacist who will move to the city and join their cause.

By Macdonald Stainsby - July 14, 2008

For much of the last year, many of the anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian forces across Canada have started to work towards converging many of the bigger issues to take place in 2010 into a larger whole...Some of the issues included are: [t]he 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver/[Whistler], the next round of Security and Prosperity Partnership [SPP] negotiations to be held within Canada -- and the G8 Summit to be held in Ontario all during that same year. On many different levels these issues interlink and have an inherent connection with one another...Here I wish to make the case that what belongs as a major thread through all of these discussions is often absent among those of us trying to make these larger connections coherent in our organizing.

Alberta Heavy Crude to be World’s cleanest production

By Mark Smyth Monday, June 30, 2008

For those who were not aware of the joint statement from the 76TH ANNUAL U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS in Miami this past week, to boycott Canadian gasoline made from oil sands heavy crude, pay very close attention.

By Eduard Gismatullin and Marianne Stigset

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- StatoilHydro ASA, Norway's largest oil producer, and Nexen Inc. called for "clarity" in Canadian regulation governing Alberta's tar-sand projects before they proceed with investment in refineries.

by Heather Mallick - Wednesday July 2, 2008

Come to Canada! But only if you've got a job.

Stories of Canada looking to poach British citizens are wildly exaggerated. We're only interested in professionals who can help us dig up oil.

by Kelly Cryderman; Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - Calgary Herald

A provincial emergency fund designed to help renters in dire straits has ballooned to more than six times its original size -- going to $43.5 million from the $7 million announced by the Stelmach government.

Your dream vacation awaits you in the "other" Alberta. While most tourists know Alberta for its rodeos and mountain views, new oilier destinations are expanding now. Come frolic on the black sand beaches! Paraglide the methane gas updrafts over tailing ponds the size of 12,000 football fields! Try your hand at water diversion surfing!

Elise Stolte, Canwest News Service

EDMONTON - Some abuse of foreigners working temporarily in Alberta is unavoidable because of conditions in their home countries, Alberta's minister of Employment and Immigration suggested Wednesday.

Hector Goudreau was reacting to news that as many as 120 Chinese workers were paid a fraction of what they were owed for work building tanks at a northern Alberta oilsands site.