It seems the famous Alberta Advantage doesn’t apply to women. Alberta lags all other provinces except Newfoundland and Labrador in women’s wage parity with men. According to a report issued by the Parkland Institute and the Alberta College of Social Workers, in Canada as a whole women’s wages for full-year, full-time employment in 2009 were 78.4 per cent of men’s. In Quebec—the parity leader—they