A Trade Reality Check
What the Province Produces, What It Exports, and What It Needs From Everyone Else
What we've been working through
Fire Country
Fort McMurray showed what happens when fire reaches the wildland-urban edge. The WUI keeps expanding. The fire climate is changing. The two trends are running toward each other.
Apr 20, 2026
The Insurance Geography
Insurance does not prevent disasters. It prices the geography of risk and decides who can afford to live where. In Alberta, that pricing is changing.
Apr 20, 2026
Watching Water
Snowpack satellites, radar altimeters, and gravity sensors now make it possible to watch Alberta's water budget from orbit. Here is what they are telling us.
Apr 20, 2026 Capital Country
Canada has $1.8 trillion in growth waiting to be unlocked. Where it lives, what is blocking it, and why the province that anchors the largest sector is generating the uncertainty that kills long-horizon investment.
Apr 14, 2026
The Warehouse Province
Alberta produces raw materials and exports them in bulk. Everything else arrives by truck. This is the infrastructure that makes that possible — and what it costs when it breaks.
Apr 3, 2026
After the Burning Strait
What changes when closure becomes a governed corridor
Mar 26, 2026System Signals No. 4
The entry fee, the $20 round trip, and the fuel bill landing on everything from airlines to groceries.
- Washington demands an 'entry fee' before CUSMA talks begin.
- Oil makes a $20 round trip in five days; airlines cut capacity and grocers absorb fuel surcharges.
- Trans Mountain posts its first full-utilisation month; Alberta tables a 120-day approvals bill.
