We could use a little more civility in Canadian politics nowadays, but the irony of Premier Smith’s military-grade gaslighting in Halifax is palpable.
Is there more to this idea than just some disaffected Sheriffs running a wild idea up the flagpole to see who salutes?
Recently Mr. Black has been heard to muse that he would like to take up his lordly duties again. Too late, alas!
ear hunt announcement smacks of dressing up trophy hunting for Friends of the UCP as a public service.
My friend “Art Sifton,” the social media gadfly found at @ArtSifton, is one of the sharpest political observers I’ve ever met, and not just of Alberta politics. The night I…
Could the Manning Formula be used by the U.K.’s far right to take over the foundering Conservative Party? Count on it that they’ll try.
Mickey Amery’s statement means legal aid will not end next week in Alberta, but sure sounds as if the impasse over government control continues.
Government malice or incompetence? The jury is still out on that question.
It’s quite possible Alberta’s United Conservative Party is disappointed the strike is over.
Panic, dear readers, is not a strategy; it’s not a very good tactic either.
Drill into Danielle Smith’s letter and you’ll see how we’re getting played again by the UCP.
Calgary lawyer David McKenzie, the winning candidate, proves again all politics are local, and that UCP endorsements may not be worth as much as some thought.
NDP emphasis will now be winning support in the community, not crafting the perfect zinger in Question Period, new leader says.
The Alberta NDP isn’t the same party it was yesterday – and members old and new have made it unequivocally clear that’s exactly what they wanted.
We’re not making this up: At least five government MLAs turned up for an anti-vaxx misinformation event sponsored by a UCP constituency association!
Yesterday’s official tantrum over the rather weak and limited truth-in-environmental-advertising provision of Ottawa’s Bill C-59 by the triumvirate of Danielle Smith, Brian Jean, and Rebecca Schulz illustrates two troubling truths…
The Pathways Alliance, the coalition of the largest and most powerful companies operating in Alberta’s oilsands, pulled all content from its elaborate and colourful website yesterday in reaction to the…
As they would certainly agree in the C-suites of Calgary, why bother trying to capture carbon when you can capture a government? A Pathways Alliance banded bus in Vancouver –…
If Jyoti Gondek took off her shoes one summer day and walked across the Glenmore Reservoir, Rick Bell’s next column would probably say it proved she can’t swim. Calgary Mayor…
Danielle Smith says she wants to skim off investment income from the province’s famously mismanaged Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund to prop up oilpatch investment ideas so bad they can’t…
