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BetaKit will establish a full-time presence in Alberta in 2025, hiring an Edmonton-based journalist to cover the Prairies ...
Canadian housing starts posted a record-setting surge in April, with new data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation ...
North America’s most comprehensive welfare state is the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan. In a flat wheatland more than twice the size of New Mexico, 907,000 scattered inhabitants share ...
The Canadian west had already been mapped but there were only a handful of explorers, missionaries and fur traders on the Prairies. The Cree, the Ojibways, the Saulteus, the Assiniboines and the ...
If Canada elects Carney on Monday, many in the province will feel unsettled. For the past decade, they’ve felt that Liberals ...
Canada's prairie provinces - agricultural heartlands - have been hit hard by drought. In the face of climate change, ranchers like Ryan Boyd are experimenting with new ways to work with nature and ...
The Canadian prairies’ only venomous snake can be found in southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta. Snakes are coldblooded and can only regulate their body temperature by external ...
Alberta Premium's mash bill contains 100-percent Canadian prairie rye, setting it apart from numerous other competitors. A good inhale infuses the nostrils with ripe banana, vanilla, and ...
Organic farmers and researchers are seeking methods of reducing tillage. Negative effects of tillage are well known: making soil more prone to erosion, killing soil organisms, and the cost in fuel and ...