Alberta Report articulated for me what I had merely been thinking for some time. Its articles were usually better-written and its arguments more clearly thought out than what I was used to reading in Maclean's. It was quite a formative influence on my thinking and outlook on politics and society.
Ted Byfield was a rare breed in Canadian journalism; his like have almost all now been driven out of the field by the stifling orthodoxy that has become a sine qua non in the Canadian media.