Good morning, everyone.

If you’re an avid Alberta political observer, your head might be spinning a bit this week trying to keep up. And by week, how about just since Wednesday morning.

Here are some of the headlines of stories produced by Globe and Mail reporters in the province over the last two days:

• Alberta construction company alleges Sam Mraiche played hidden role in building of addiction sites
• Police search offices of Sam Mraiche-owned firm as part of Alberta procurement probe
• Accounting firm owned by Smith government appointee searched by RCMP
• Alberta to restrict MAID, including for patients with incurable conditions
• Danielle Smith seeking national-security clearance from Canada’s spy service

The first three of those stories in the list are part of The Globe’s continuing coverage of procurement irregularities at Alberta’s health authority – the latest reporting on a controversy that has dogged Premier Danielle Smith for more than a year now. And with the RCMP executing search warrants on businesses connected to the controversy, it is the first public indication that a police investigation opened last year is progressing.

While the Premier said she couldn’t comment on the searches, she pointed to a report prepared by Raymond Wyant, a retired judge from Manitoba whom she appointed to investigate the procurement policies at Alberta Health Services and the provincial Health Ministry.

“We received a report from judge Raymond Wyant, which clearly found that no politician, no political staff and no government of Alberta official had any wrongdoing in this matter,” she said during Question Period on Thursday.

Wyant’s conclusions were more nuanced however, considering he had no power to subpoena politicians or their staff.

“When I find that there was no wrongful interference by any government official in the matters concerning this report, that only means that I found no evidence of such, but I am not in a position to make a final and absolute determination,” he stated in his report, published last October.

The Globe also reported this week on medical assistance in dying, when on Wednesday the province introduced sweeping legislation to drastically restrict the availability of the medical procedure. The new law would include barring cases where patients have incurable conditions but their deaths are not reasonably foreseeable.

The legislation is the first of its kind in Canada, and also proposes that MAID would not be allowed when mental illness is the sole underlying condition.

The new law could have widespread implications in the years to come and set up a fight with and between patients, caregivers, health-care workers and advocates.

And finally, The Globe reported that Smith says she is seeking national-security clearance from Canada’s spy service so she can receive briefings on foreign-interference threats facing the province.

For the better part of a year now, the Premier has been trying to tiptoe between a burgeoning separatist movement that hopes to hold an independence referendum this fall and a new Liberal government in Ottawa that she is hoping to woo into getting new energy infrastructure built. And all of that has been complicated by a U.S. President who has waged a tariff war while making threats about annexation.

Given that environment, national-security and election experts have expressed concern about the ability of provincial agencies to deal with the threat of foreign meddling should Alberta hold an independence referendum.

And according to the Premier, the RCMP and CSIS had not been “forthcoming” with her government about security issues when it comes to protecting the integrity of a vote.

So she says she has started the process of getting a higher clearance so she can get CSIS briefings.

That was a lot packed into 48 hours. And that was without even mentioning that the Calgary Zoo got a new polar bear this week. Everyone, meet Yelle.

This is the weekly Alberta newsletter written by Alberta Bureau Chief Mark Iype. If you’re reading this on the web, or it was forwarded to you from someone else, you can sign up for it and all Globe newsletters here.