Alberta

Alberta's separatist sentiment has resurged in recent months amid the Trump administration's comments about the province's future, coupled with economic and political tensions with the Canadian government. Andrew Chang explains what it would actually take to grant sovereignty to a Canadian province, and why it's so difficult to achieve.

We are so, so absurdly lucky in Alberta - we get SO MUCH SUN. It's mid-March and I generated double the power my heat-pump equipped home used. Even after I replace the power I pulled from my EV commuting to work, that's still 7kWh more power coming off my roof today than I used. My gas bill is zero, my power bill is negative today and it's still technically winter ...

New legislation would prevent anyone in Alberta from accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) if they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months.

This will increase the bargaining power of employers. If the alternative is starving, they know employees will be more desperate.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56103411

Turns out Alberta’s blue lakes freeze into a canvas unlike any other this New York artist has ever seen or worked with.

Just past the sign that welcomes drivers to Olds, Alta., sits a parcel of farmland. It’s on the edge of town, across the street from homes and tucked behind the old municipal building, which was sold to the local Co-op two years ago.

It’s where a developer is proposing to build a $10-billion data centre, along with the second-largest power plant in Alberta, to satisfy the world’s seemingly voracious appetite for data.

The natural gas facility, proposed by Synapse Data Centre Inc., will produce 1.4 gigawatts of energy each day, solely to power what could become the largest artificial intelligence (AI) data centre in the county.

That’s equivalent to the daily demand for the entire city of Edmonton.