After cancelling and restoring the already scheduled fall sitting of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly only days after becoming Premier, Alison Redford and Government House leader Dave Hancock defended a decision yesterday to hold a two day sitting on October 24 and 25 and then break to reconvene for a longer sitting later in November. This rescheduling will allow Premier […]
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David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: OK, Premier Redford’s a flip-flopper … but does she have a plan?
Flip flops. Plenty of ’em. Below: Alberta Premier Alison Redford.Flip. Flop. …Is Alberta getting to be like a cheap rooming house? You know, the tenant upstairs just got home from the beach. And we’re all waiting for the other flip to flop?Just a…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: In Alberta, being a Tory big shot means never having to say you’re sorry
Tory Love Story: In Alberta, being a big-shot Conservative means never having to say you’re sorry. Below: Freddy Lee Morton.As far as Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is concerned, Alberta Energy Minister Ted “Freddy Lee” Morton i…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: recommended reading: how the katz group did an end run around the best interests of edmontonians.
If you read one article today, please read Paula Simons well written column on how billionaire Daryl Katz and the Katz Group were able to score major concessions from the City of Edmonton during their campaign to secure public funds to build their new downtown arena. Simons: Katz Group power play scores major concessions from […]
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Never mind unions – let’s cast a little light on the darkest corporate corners!
Time to cast a little light in capitalism’s darkest corners? Below: Jim Stanford, Russ Hiebert.All the usual suspects clamouring for unions to be required by law to publicly reveal their financial accounts ought to be careful what they wish for. They…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Sure, Gary Mar’s $264,576 Asian sinecure is sweet, but does it come with severance?
Gary Mar stands in Hong Kong and gazes back toward Alberta. Albertan politicians-in-exile may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Mr. Mar as others see him; Rick Orman aboard business jet with plate of fruit.Word that Gary Mar is about to be sent…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Redford Tories have good news and bad news for government union’s president
AUPE President Guy Smith with some of the approximately 1,000 demonstrators who gathered at the Alberta Legislature yesterday afternoon to protest against privatization talk by Premier Alison Redford. Below: Former AUPE President Dan MacLennan talking …
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Redford’s Rocky Mountain Cabinet Horror Show: We’re doing the time warp again!
Premier Alison Redford and members of her new cabinet in a Transylvanian Tory Time Warp. Ron Liepert is at right. Alberta premiers and their cabinets may not be exactly as illustrated, here or during their campaigns. Below left: Ms. Redford, centre, at…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alison redford appoints gary mar’s cabinet.
Do you think Gary Mar left a draft cabinet list in the Premier’s Office when he was measuring the drapes? Because Premier Alison Redford found it. We were told to expect big changes, that many “household names” would be dropped from cabinet, but as they enter their new jobs, Premier Alison Redford‘s cabinet looks like […]
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alison redford’s first cabinet – who’s in? who’s out?
Premier Alison Redford will announce the appointment of her first cabinet at 10:00am this morning. I presented my list of predictions last week and since then we have some stronger indication of who will be appointed today and who will be joining the backbenchers this morning. We have been told to expect a significant shuffle […]
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Never mind the media narrative… the real fight’s between the NDP and the Wildrose!
NDP supporters in the streets of Edmonton. Caution, Alberta crowds may not be exactly as illustrated, and neither may Alberta polls. Below: Brian Mason; Queen Victoria and Prime Minister William Gladstone – cabinet making was always tough.A poll by c…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Whatever became of the investigation into the PC Party’s purloined list?
The Tory membership list, purloined again! Alberta Conservative campaign strategists may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Premier Alison Redford; PC Party President Bill Smith.Now that the Alberta Progressive Conservatives have chosen a new leader…
Continue readingImpolitical: Attack of the Wildrose
Doesn’t it seem a little early for the foreboding political attacks on Alison Redford? Or is the Wildrose afraid of being out-Danielled?Admittedly, I’m not completely up on Alberta politics but it seems like it would be very tough to make the case on d…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Why Hudak lost: Wedgies are not a Story
Tim Hudak – failed wedgerTim Hudak is now licking his wounds, and considering what he should do differently next time an election rolls around (which might be far sooner than many right now expect). Adam Radwanski in the Globe & Mail reports on the…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Alison Redford’s premiership wrong-footed on Day 2 by brutal Calgary Sun story
The Calgary Sun’s front page Saturday morning. Below: Sun columnist Rick Bell; Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi; a technician demonstrates the proper procedure for handling a typical Sun story.Has former Alberta premier Ed Stelmach’s bad luck rubbed off…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Alison Redford sworn in as premier and … uh … that’s all for now
Alison Redford, the 14th premier of Alberta, raises her right hand and promises to be different from the last Conservative premier. Below, she greets well-wishers as she leaves the Legislature with her family.Now that Alison Redford has been safely swo…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: photos: alison redford sworn-in as alberta’s 14th premier.
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Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Creepy Wildrose attack ads set the tone as Alison Redford prepares to be sworn in as Alberta premier
Wildrose Integrity? The Wildrose Party’s creepy video attack on premier-designate Alison Redford.Honeymoon? What honeymoon?Alison Redford was elected leader of Alberta’s governing Progressive Conservative Party in a vote announced in the wee hours …
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: why early opposition attacks on alison redford will backfire.
Danielle Smith‘s Wildrose Party has launched a series of negative television ads against soon-to-be Premier Alison Redford, who will be sworn-in as Premier tomorrow in Edmonton. The television ads bear an eerie resemblance to the negative ads used by Nancy MacBeth‘s Alberta Liberals in the 2001 election and the “No Plan” ads aired by the […]
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: What Saturday’s Win by Red Tory Redford Means in Alberta
Alison Redford was Saturday’s surprise winner of the Alberta PC leadership race. As stunned as frontrunner Gary Mar was, the most surprised may have been Alberta’s opposition parties, who had no doubt begun positioning themselves against Mar.So how doe…
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