The Report Card on Alberta's Elementary Schools: 2005 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

This annual Report Card uses relevant, publicly-available data to rate and rank 748 of Alberta's public, separate, private, charter, and francophone elementary schools. This is the only comprehensive and widely-distributed Report Card on elementary schools available in Canada.

In contrast to the ambitious Strategic Defence Initiative of the 1980s, the current US program to build ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska and California is a feasible and prudent response to the growing threat of missile and nuclear developments in North Korea and Iran. The United States is both able and by law committed to go-it-alone on missile defence.

The geographical growth of urban areas, pejoratively called urban sprawl by anti-growth advocates, has become a heated issue across Canada but especially in Ontario, home to the country's largest agglomeration. The new provincial government has indicated its intention to implement smart growth policies intended to slow or stop the growth of urban land areas.