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Cover of the August 26, 1997 edition of Alberta Report

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. 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. ^[1]

Rather convincing evidence has been put forward by various columnists to suggest that Link Byfield constructed the demise of Alberta Report by selling the advertising department and print facilities at fire-sale prices to a company that would become his Alberta Business Report and by reducing the magazine's revenue by 50% by slashing subscription rates.

This, it is suggested, was in order to consolidate debt and existing obligations to employees into the soon-to-be bankrupt Alberta Report, while keeping the subscriber base, advertising revenue and a free printer for the new magazine. ^[2]

A number of right-of-center journalists/commentators or pundits in Canada who are prominent today cut their teeth writing for The Report magazine, including Colby Cosh, Kevin Michael Grace, 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.

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