Stephen Harper: My Alberta Home

By Stephen J. HarperEditor’s note: Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s memoir, Here for Canada: The Memoirs of the 22nd Prime Minister, is being released this week. Ahead of publication, the Postmedia Alberta community publications received permission to publish the excerpt below, one that has an Alberta connection.The late-1970s oil boom was underway, so I moved out to Alberta, where I figured it would be easy to get a job. I was doing what many young people were doing at the time: tryi