A Medicine Hat man who attempted to circulate currency with anti-Semitic and xenophobic slogans printed on it has been given a one-year conditional sentence, the result of a joint submission by the Crown and defence.

It ain't easy being Green — at least, not in Alberta. As eight candidates vie to lead the federal party, four people who ran for the Greens in Alberta in the last election weigh in on whom they support, what it's like being a Green in the heart of Canada's energy industry and what the next leader can do to try to win over Albertans.