Nothing much has changed since the last time Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government trotted out its “patient-focused funding” scheme for hospitals. It’s still a bad policy that will force hospitals…
When Jason Kenney created the UCP he set up the preconditions for the party to get to where it is today, and its eventual demise. What do I mean by…
According to the website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Calgary-Shaw MLA Rebecca Schulz gave up her seat on May 15. That’s not a surprise, but it’s odd. It’s no…
Who will be demonized by Alberta Conservatives as this province’s official Bond villain now that Steven Guilbeault has announced he’s quitting politics? Mr. Guilbeault made his announcement yesterday. It wasn’t…
When Prime Minister Mark Carney called Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s relentless campaign to ensure there’s some form of separation referendum on a provincial ballot next fall “a dangerous bluff” and…
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. In addition to blaming everyone but herself for the national unity crisis she’s been trying for months to foment, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith…
In Danielle Smith’s Alberta, if the facts don’t support your argument, you can make up new facts. Alberta’s premier demonstrated this capacity yesterday evening in her delusional 15-minute televised address…
The United Conservative Party’s effort to railroad a separation referendum onto a ballot this fall and blame it on the people who signed the pro-Canada Forever Canadian petition was unfolding…
Thanks to her sneaky separatist manoeuvring, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to have wedged herself between the proverbial rock and metaphorical hard place. If she doesn’t do what the Alberta…
Happy Victoria Day! Over the weekend leading up to our national celebration of Victorian rectitude, imperialism and class inequality, prominent Alberta separatist Jeffrey Rath took to the Internet appearing to…
Alberta's rump of separatists suffered a major setback last week, when a judge overturned the Chief Electoral Officer of Alberta (CEO-A) decision that set the signature gathering process for the…
There is an obvious problem with those who have stars in their eyes. Blinded by the light, they fail to see the darkness surrounding those stars. This seems an apt…
There’s no need to make the explanation of the carbon pricing, carbon capture and bitumen pipeline deal announced Friday in Calgary by the federal and Alberta governments too complicated. It’s…
Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party can’t be too happy today with Elections Alberta and its boss, Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure. On Wednesday, Court of King’s Bench Justice…
If Alberta Premier Danielle Smith were smart, she’d treat yesterday’s Court of King’s Bench ruling quashing Elections Alberta’s approval of the Stay Free Alberta/Alberta Prosperity Project petition for a separation…
As bad as the release of the personal data of three million Albertans in the province’s list of electors to virtually every fraudster and propagandist in the world turns out…
Danielle Smith, who is basically the public face of foreign interference in Canada, has been given a Canadian “Top Secret” security clearance, her press secretary said on Thursday. According to…
Now that the metaphorical horse has departed the proverbial barn for pastures unknown, Alberta’s toothless elections agency says it’s slamming the barn door shut. At any rate, Elections Alberta officials…
The Chestnut Tree was almost empty. A ray of sunlight slanting through a window fell on dusty table-tops. It was the lonely hour of fifteen. A tinny music trickled from…
It takes a certain ingenuity for a crooked government to keep its scandals hidden. Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your perspective – that’s a talent Danielle Smith and the…
