Better late than never, Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi finally effectively hammered the governing United Conservative Party’s policy hot mess at a news conference yesterday morning marking the end of the…
And then there were 21! Twenty-one petitions acceptable to Elections Alberta to recall members of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, that is. Twenty of them are directed at MLAs from the…
VANCOUVER – No sooner were Alberta separatists celebrating provincial Justice Minister Mickey Amerey’s secession-friendly Bill 14 for ending the court challenge that sought to block the Alberta Prosperity Project’s separation…
WHITEHORSE, Yukon – After that putative pipeline deal with the feds riled up the substantial posse of Alberta separatists at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting last weekend far…
Thanks to the success of former Progressive Conservative deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk’s Forever Canadian petition campaign, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith now finds herself on the proverbial horns of a very…
The Frankenparty stitched together in 2017 by Jason Kenney from the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservatives has spawned a monster. Hard-line Alberta separatists who were tolerated by Mr. Kenney…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith must have experienced a strong feeling of déjà vu yesterday as she announced her grand pipeline bargain with Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney – after all,…
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert, she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one, with sketchy details to follow. Then, just like that, Alberta’s…
As Elections Alberta approved five more recall petitions yesterday, bringing the number of United Conservative Party MLAs facing at least a theoretical threat of losing their jobs to 14, provincial…
Knowing that he’s almost certainly destined for the long jump, metaphorically speaking, it must be mildly satisfying for Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure to have to keep approving those MLA…
On her Instagram account, Rachel Gilmore describes herself as “your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist.” Judging from the reactions her aggressively progressive commentary gets on the various social media…
Rest assured, Alberta’s Bill 13, the so-called Regulated Professions Neutrality Act, has little to do with protecting freedom of expression. Despite Premier Danielle Smith’s claim during a news conference announcing…
Albertan country music icon Corb Lund showed up in Edmonton yesterday to drop off a citizen initiative application at the offices of Elections Alberta for a referendum petition seeking permanent…
Apparently, Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party have decided they’re going to have to destroy health care in order to save it. That’s about the most positive spin that…
O Tempora! O Mores! In the great scheme of things, the fact a United Conservative Party cabinet minister referred to one of her constituents in a private conversation with an…
All the words of our magnificent English language have meanings, and those words and their meanings belong to all of us who speak and write in English. Which is to…
Is it just me, or are Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney suddenly acting like a couple of kids from rival high schools who’ve noticed they…
There’s no question Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen will make Alberta’s highways deadlier with his plan to raise speed limits in several locations. He’s already made them more dangerous with his…
Trying to challenge the United Conservative Party Government’s misuse of the Charter’s notorious Notwithstanding Clause may be a waste of time and money, but using the UCP’s ridiculous recall legislation…
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