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This place — its people and its troubles — won’t disappear the moment we look away. Instead, let’s stand up and fight.

Provincial government data shows that Alberta is on track to see more people leaving than arriving in 2021. It’s the first time since the 1980s that the former prairie powerhouse saw two consecutive quarters of negative net migration. Kenney and his party have downplayed these issues. They have blamed the departure of companies like Encana on the Trudeau government. They have attacked the companies themselves, like Wattpad, which chose Halifax over Calgary for their second headquarters in 2019. But people are leaving Alberta. And they may never come back. The loss of trained professionals, ...