
Alberta’s geography is both blessing and curse. Landlocked, with no navigable rivers, vast distances from major markets, separated from political and financial power by the Canadian Shield and from world markets by the Rocky Mountains. But those curses are the parents of our bounty; the vast prairie that isolates us fed an empire, and the geological for…
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