Alberta Report

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Alberta Report was a Canadian right-of-center magazine which has now ceased to exist. It was founded by Ted Byfield and later run by his son, Link Byfield.

The magazine began as St. John's Edmonton Report in 1973. Originally it was run as part of Ted Byfield's lay religious order called the Company of the Cross (which also ran equally controversial boarding schools), where employees were paid $1.00 per day, and lived in a communal apartment building.^[1] The company that published the magazine at one time had three separate editions, including Alberta Report, BC Report, and Western Report. These merged again in 1999 into The Report, later known as the Citizens Centre Report in connection with Link Byfield's organization, the Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy.

However, the magazine often struggled financially, and ultimately shut down in June 2003. According to the Edmonton Sun, some employees were still owed back pay nearly six months later, and complained when the Citizens Centre was directing money toward its political agenda.^[2]

A number of right-of-center journalists/commentators or pundits in Canada who are prominent today started their careers writing for The Report magazine, including Colby Cosh, Kevin Michael Grace, Lorne Gunter, Ezra Levant, and Kevin Steel.

The Alberta Report, at http://thealbertareport.blogspot.com, a self-described "insider's" report, is also the name of a blog focused on political "dirt" on the provincial and federal political scenes.

[edit] References

1. ^ Canadian Encyclopedia Entry for Ted Byfield
2. ^ http://kevinsteel.org/smokin/031027sunstory.htm, reference no longer available on-line as of 8 Sept 2007]