PHOTOS: Medical lab techs examine a specimen, perhaps appearing not exactly as illustrated nowadays. Below: Alberta NDP Health Minister Sarah Hoffman, former PC health minister Stephen Mandel, Alberta Health Services CEO Vickie Kaminski and long-ago Conservative premier Peter Lougheed. In a bombshell move reminiscent of Peter Lougheed’s 1974 takeover of
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Alberta Politics: From Pacific Western to Trans Pacific: more evidence of how far Canada’s Conservatives have fallen
PHOTOS: All that remains of Pacific Western Airlines sits in a grain field northwest of Edmonton. Below: Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, looking sort of visionary. On this day in 1974, the Conservative government of Alberta took over Pacific Western Airlines. The takeover engineered by Premier Peter Lougheed and his cabinet
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