# Andrew Nikiforuk

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Exposing Alberta's Wilful Blindness to AI Centre Harms A case study in AI centre impacts Sweeping changes for Albertans

The UCP refuses to tally risks to nature and people. This expert did it for them. … Article written by Andrew Nikiforuk. Two years ago, Premier Danielle Smith declared that her government wanted to woo $100 billion worth of data centre investment to the province by 2030 with a bold new strategy. Sm…

Premier Smith's Warm Embrace of Meta Premier Smith's Warm Embrace of Meta

14 Jul 2026The Tyee SHARE: 68 SHARES 52 52 52 Comments / 52 New Premier Smith's Warm Embrace of Meta Not a word about the tech behemoth's harm to kids. One disgusted jury awarded $375 million in damages. Opinion Alberta Opinion Alberta Read more: Opinion Alberta Andrew Nikiforuk 14 Jul 2026 Tyee co…

Calling Carney's Carbon Capture Bluff Daunting targets, unrealistic promises Guzzlers of water and capital Beware of leaks More problems after decades of denial

He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here's the reality. … Article written by Andrew Nikiforuk. Earlier this month Prime Minister Mark Carney, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and five largely U.S.-owned oilsands companies proclaimed a leap forward in "carbon manage…

In Alberta, Referendums Must Serve Smith's Aims Only 'Unreasonably rejected' Moving the goalposts to win Referendums as 'arms of the government'

Witness the battle over the Water Not Coal petition as Corb Lund leads a fight to keep it alive. … Article written by Andrew Nikiforuk. Few issues provide a clearer window on Alberta's top-down politics than the issue of coal mining. The latest chapter in a long saga sheds more light on Premier Dan…

Lights! Camera! Action! Roll the Data Centre Sell Job!

Notes on Premier Smith's video attempt to reassure Albertans that AI tycoons are everybody's friends. … Article written by Andrew Nikiforuk. Premier Danielle Smith, I just watched your latest video pitching the transformation of Alberta into an industrial AI powerhouse. I have some notes. Just sayi…

As AI Data Centre Backlash Builds, What Will Smith Do?

Across North America, opposition is growing. But Alberta wants up to 40 projects. By David Climenhaga. Now that voters everywhere in North America are turning against artificial intelligence data centres hard and fast, what's Alberta's United Conservative Party going to do? They've spent two years …

The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior

Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is 'just getting started.' By Andrew Nikiforuk. The first thing that Bek MacIntosh, a 42-year-old business owner and mother of three, wants Albertans to know is this: it is possible for a community to stop…

For Wendell Berry, My North Star

He was America's rural consciousness. And his death demands more than a moment of reflection. By Andrew Nikiforuk. "Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places." — Wendell Berry We sat on his porch by the…

No More Gods. The Case to Ban Artificial Super-Intelligence

A prescient computer scientist unpacks the frightening danger posed by self-directing AI bots By Andrew Nikiforuk. Uncontrollable. Unpredictable. Unexplainable. Remember those words. That's why Roman Yampolskiy believes the creation of self-improving, super-advanced artificial-intelligent agents po…

Why the US Licks Its Chops at a 'Free' Alberta

The aptly named DARC papers lay out Trumpists' anti-Canada aims. Is Premier Smith a student? By Andrew Nikiforuk. During Alberta's 2023 election Danielle Smith said nothing about changing laws and institutions to make it easier to hold a vote on separating from Canada. If she had, Albertans would h…