Calgary-Shaw By-Election: Don’t Get Too Confident
First, congratulations to newly-elected MLA Kyle Campbell. The win was decisive enough to not need a judicial recount, and to some degree sent a message to the United Conservative Party…
Alberta Politics
NDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest
Alberta NDP candidate Kyle Campbell won the Calgary-Shaw by-election last night, beating the United Conservative Party’s Mike Derry in a contest that looked too close for comfort most of the…
Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they?
Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw. Voters in that riding in the city’s far south will have an opportunity not just to spank the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle…
The Shambolic Nature Of Government
Government, at the best of times is a chaotic creature, it's even more so when the party in power is driven not by a coherent philosophy, but rather by whatever…
Despite UCP scheme to fuel AI data centres, there’s nothing wrong with Crown corporations
Admittedly, the revelation by The Narwhal yesterday that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is seriously pondering a scheme to create public corporations to build and operate pipelines to carry natural…
The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List
There’s a substantial and growing body of economic research that separation would be a catastrophe for Alberta and Albertans, especially working people. As economist Jim Stanford observed in his Aug.…
Blame Ottawa? Most of Alberta’s economic discontent has roots in policies cooked up right here at home
Conventional wisdom in Canadian political and media circles seems to be that Albertans are almost to a man and woman deeply discontented with their relationship with the rest of Canada.…
Separatist ‘transition plan’ is propaganda intended to create a sense of reassurance and inevitability
On Thursday, a mostly anonymous group of some 47 individuals identifying themselves as “the Alberta Transition Council” dropped a document they called “The Alberta Transition Plan, a Practical Analysis of…
UCP slaps ‘punitive tax’ on solar panels, opening new front in its War on Renewable Energy
Never let it be said that the Alberta’s United Conservative Party government isn’t in favour of recycling stuff – at least as long as that can be used to create…
Danielle Smith’s official message kept changing yesterday – what the heck was that about?
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith marked the “Alberta Day” moment in time with a couple of significantly different official messages and an apocalyptic prophecy. Yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, an email…
Good morning, my fellow Albertans! Happy Alberta Day!
Good morning, my fellow Albertans! Happy Alberta Day! (Such as it is.) No, you can’t sleep in. Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s lame celebration is a “recognized commemorative day.” So,…
Forget fighting Trump’s tariffs, just be ‘too friendly, kind and helpful to resist,’ Danielle Smith advises
Now seen from coast to coast as the weakest link in the national response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ugly tariff war on Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith took to…
Voters everywhere in North America turn against AI data centres with a vengeance
Now that voters everywhere in North America are turning against Artificial Intelligence data centres hard and fast, what’s Alberta’s United Conservative Party going to do? They’ve spent two years planning…
Of Trade Deals, Foreign Interference, and Conservative Leadership In Canada
We talk a lot about "foreign interference" in Canadian politics, but we don't very often talk about the single biggest source of interference in Canada's political discourse: the United States.…
A trade war with the U.S. may not be great, but the day after Labour Day 2026 is a great moment for it to start
If a country had to pick a moment to strike back with targeted countervailing tariffs at the Trump Administration’s habitual bad-faith trade bargaining, surely it would be difficult to imagine…
Danielle Smith, of all people, should have seen UCP problems with AI data centres coming
You’d think Danielle Smith, of all people, would have seen her government’s troubles with Artificial Intelligence data centres coming right up Highway 2. After all, back in the early Twenty-teens…
Danielle Smith muses about holding binding separation vote before next year’s general election
If Alberta separatists manage to eke out a victory in Danielle Smith’s Oct. 19 referendum, she says she’ll “have to” move quickly to a binding referendum before voters have a…
Sept. 14 by-election called in Calgary-Shaw; there’s plenty to ponder about what it’ll all mean
We’re all going to learn some interesting stuff, beyond the usual government-versus-opposition popularity contest that has typified Alberta politics for the past decade, from the Sept. 14 by-election in Calgary-Shaw…
Count on it, UCP red tape will make it easier to lose your health care
Where the hell is Dale Nally now that we actually need him? For those of you who missed the memo, Mr. Nally is the “minister of red tape reduction” in…