Albertalens · Alberta public-interest data
Albertalens publishes Alberta public-interest data — procurement, ministry budgets, grants, vendors, the cost of government, K-12 funding — drawn from primary sources and composed for readers who suspect they are being misled. On every topic surface, each numeral cites the publisher, the dataset, and the date retrieved, inline next to the figure.
Plate I · Topic surfaces
Each surface is sourced from the same Alberta read API. Numbers quoted on the cards below are reproduced inline on the surface, with the source dataset cited in place.
$18.7B across 6,547 sole-source contracts to 4,798 vendors since FY 2015–16. Recurring justification language, multi-ministry vendor concentration, scope drift between original awards and amendments.
Read → /procurement
Every ministry's budgeted spend lined up against what it actually disclosed. $17B (27.3% of budgeted ministry spend) does not reconcile against any single disclosed contract or grant.
Read → /ministries
Sortable, filterable view of who Alberta pays — by ministry, by fiscal year, by tier. Names link through to per-vendor contract history.
Read → /vendors
Index of grant and transfer recipients, tiered by disclosure quality, with the registered-lobbyist overlay surfaced inline. Names link through to per-recipient grant history.
Read → /recipients
Ministry-level spend, political overhead by fiscal year, MLA payments and senior compensation, and the sunshine-list view of public-sector compensation.
Read → /cost-of-government
K-12 funding by school authority, with the per-pupil equity gap surfaced inline (private $4,227 → catholic $20,029, gap of $15,802 per pupil).
Read → /education-funding