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Economic Geography
Rockets and Feathers
WTI crude touched $119 a barrel on Sunday before the G7 coordinated a strategic reserve release and knocked it back to $104. By Monday morning,...
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Economic Geography
Economic Geography
Two Front Doors and a Mountain
Every year, roughly 35 million visits land on Alberta — most through two airports, most headed toward a narrow band of mountain terrain. This is...
Economic Geography
The Checkout Problem
A province that produces 40% of Canada's beef cattle, refines its own diesel, and grows canola across the parkland belt consistently pays above-average grocery prices....
Economic Geography
Alberta's Pipeline Geography
The debate about Alberta's pipelines generates more heat than light, in part because it is rarely conducted with actual infrastructure data. This essay describes the...
Economic Geography
Landlocked by Default: The Economic Geography of Alberta's Connectivity Crisis
Alberta has no coastline, no navigable rivers to tidewater, and sits 1,200 kilometres from the nearest port. Every tonne of export and every passenger trip...
Economic Geography
The Burning Strait
How the 2026 Iran conflict rewrites the global energy map sketched in Contested Ground — a systems view of chokepoint activation, supply chain propagation, and...
Economic Geography
Contested Ground
Three forces press simultaneously on global oil markets. Sanctions have reshuffled trade flows without removing supply. China's renewable buildout is compressing the growth curve that...
Economic Geography
The Texas of the North
Alberta is routinely called the Texas of the North. The comparison is not without merit — both are energy economies that chafe against federal government....
Economic Geography
A Trade Reality Check
Alberta has 12% of the population but generates 32% of Canadian exports. It contributed $267.4 billion more to Ottawa than it received back between 2007...