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Alex Boyd Reporter
  • Calgary
  • Toronto Star

Alex Boyd is a reporter for the Star's Calgary Bureau. She was formerly a bureau chief for StarMetro in Calgary and Edmonton.

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Toronto Star

218 Articles
13 days ago
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How the Cochrane Review went wrong. Report questioning COVID masks blows up, prompts apology

While the editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library said it was ‘inaccurate’ to say they’d said masks don’t work, exper...

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16 days ago
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How the dream of 15-minute cities was twisted into a nightmare

From an environmentally-forward approach to urban planning to misunderstood and maligned on the internet, how did thi...

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16 days ago
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Inside one man’s battle against the 15-Minute City conspiracy theory

How one politician is trying to push back the tide of misinformation and conspiracy theory in a most old-fashioned way.

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about 1 month ago
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Well-intentioned? Danielle Smith’s new plan hits a nerve in Alberta

Pilot project to clean up oil wells taps into province’s cherished energy royalties.

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about 1 month ago
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Canada was called a COVID vaccine hoarder. Has it redeemed itself?

Officials say they’ve accomplished a major milestone amidst supply challenges, uneven health-care systems and an ever...

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about 2 months ago
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Jamie Salé was Canada’s sweetheart on ice. Now the Olympian is championing something darker

The figure skater has seen her social media presence grow exponentially during COVID. She says she’s looking for trut...

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about 2 months ago
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It’s Danielle Smith vs. the CBC. Who has the most to lose?

Smith is demanding that CBC News retract and apologize for a story that said staff in her office had contacted Crown ...

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2 months ago
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Do traffic woes at a gem of the Canadian Rockies signal looming problems at Canada’s national parks?

Parks Canada says it will close the jammed 14-kilometre road to Moraine Lake in Banff National Park to private vehicl...

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3 months ago
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OPP anti-rackets branch reviewing requests to investigate Ford government’s plan to develop Green...

Premier Doug Ford and Housing Minister Steve Clark have denied accusations that the government tipped off developers ...

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3 months ago
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‘This is ridiculous’: Exasperated travellers tell tales of luggage chaos at Toronto’s Pearson air...

The Star spoke with five people, including a pregnant woman, who travelled through Pearson International Airport in r...

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3 months ago
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‘This is ridiculous’: Exasperated travellers tell tales of luggage chaos at Toronto’s Pearson air...

The Star spoke with five people, including a pregnant woman, who travelled through Pearson International Airport in r...

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4 months ago
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Analysis | ‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: Is Alberta’s new Sovereignty Act actually legal?

Debate about the constitutionality of Danielle Smith’s new bill is already underway, with one legal expert seeing a s...

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