How these guides are written

How the guides are written

Each guide answers one question and is written from one or more official pages, which are fetched again at the time of writing. The wording comes from the page, not from recollection.

That is not ceremony. Of the first sixteen Alberta government URLs gathered for this site, six were already dead — the paths had been reorganised. Anything written from a stored link would have been wrong from day one.

What does not get published

A guide with no official source that could be fetched.

A guide containing a URL that does not resolve. That check has caught a government link a model invented: entirely plausible, and a 404.

A guide that advises in our own voice rather than reporting what a page says. Quoting a recommendation is fine; making one is not.

A guide that is too short, has no heading structure, or reads as though the language slipped.

How often it updates

148 guides are published. The system writes twice a day, two at a time.

Each guide states the date its sources were last read. Rules and amounts change, and the older that date, the more worth opening the official link yourself.

If something has gone stale, every guide has a re-check button. Anything not rewritten in seven days goes back into the queue.

We do not give advice

This site will not tell you which option to choose, how to arrange your affairs, or when to start a pension.

Immigration consulting and tax representation are licensed professions in Canada. This site is neither, and crossing that line would be both irresponsible and against the rules.

So it does one thing: sets out what the official page says and shows you the page. The judgement is yours, or belongs to someone qualified.

Why some figures say "not stated"

Because the official page does not state them. Supplying a plausible number is far easier than leaving a gap, and that number would be carried into a government office.

Where the source is silent, so are we, and the link is there instead.

How this is kept going

It started simply: we got these things wrong when we arrived and would rather the next person did not. It is a community project, and the cost of running it is close to nothing.

Whether it eventually needs to support itself is left open. One thing will not change: what is written here does not depend on who pays. Which benefit gets covered, how it is described, and where it points are decided by what the official page says.

We also do not sell user data.