The oil sands are an amazing story Canada’s not telling

How Green Was My Valley, the novel by Welsh writer Richard Llewellyn, is about a young man born into a village of black air, of strikes, of deadly explosions. At the end, you’re keen to accompany the hero, Huw Morgan, out of the coal mines.

More than 50 years earlier, Émile Zola had come to similar conclusions in Germinal.

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Alberta’s population growing at fastest pace since 1980, StatsCan says

Alberta’s population is growing at the fastest pace since 1980, Statistics Canada reports.

During the third quarter, Alberta’s population grew by 33,100 or 0.9 per cent, the agency says, pushing the provincial total to 3,906,800 as of Oct. 1. At current growth rates, Alberta’s population is on track to surpass the four million mark over the next year or so.

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