Today is by-election day in three Alberta ridings
Vote suppression is a venerable part of any conservative party’s election-day strategy, but you have to admit that adding biological warfare to the mix puts a creative new spin on…
Alberta Politics
As it was, is now, and ever shall be: Alberta Government communications return to the Premier’s Office
Before we all get our knickers in a twist, let us remember that once upon a time all Alberta Government communications and public engagement operations came under the Executive Council,…
Guest post by Bradley Lafortune: I went to Danielle Smith’s Coal Town Hall in Fort Macleod and here’s why it went off the rails
On June 11, more than 500 people showed up in Fort Macleod, near the site of the historic North West Mounted Police post about 170 kilometres south of Calgary, for…
Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan yet for running public health care, but just like Donald Trump she’s got a concept of a plan
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t have a coherent plan for running public health care yet, but yesterday she revealed that, just like her hero Donald J. Trump, she has a…
Naheed Nenshi may face a bigger test in next Monday’s by-election in Edmonton-Ellerslie than where he’s running
With recent polling results giving many MLAs in the Alberta NDP’s substantial Opposition caucus the jitters, the by-election next Monday in Edmonton-Ellerslie is shaping up to be a significant test…
Despite what Danielle Smith says, Alberta’s new COVID vaccine policy is not about saving money or cost recovery
Everybody who’s been paying attention to what Alberta Danielle Smith has been saying and doing for years understands that her government’s new policy of forcing Albertans to pay for COVID-19…
In classic Friday afternoon bad-news dump, UCP moves to make COVID vaccines expensive and hard to find
In a classic Friday afternoon bad-news dump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government announced a scheme to make seniors pay “the full costs” for restricted supplies of COVID-19…
94.5% of 39,000 unionized Alberta teachers vote to strike if bargaining reaches impasse
There’s no way to suggest a 94.5-per-cent strike vote by nearly 39,000 Alberta teachers doesn’t represent a pretty solid negotiating mandate for their union. Alberta Teachers Association President Jason Schilling…
What next? UCP takes to reading Yours Truly in The Tyee, quoting lefty bloggers in press release
In Ontario last week on union business, your blogger was startled to discover the United Conservative Party had quoted his recent post commenting on recent polling results by Janet Brown…
Danielle Smith has news for the people of Canada: you have ‘the lowest living standards in the world’
I’ve been writing these little meditations on the state of politics in Alberta now longer than it takes an infant to grow old enough to vote and in that time…
Mark Carney’s energy superpower talk may not frighten the UCP, but it ought to frighten Pierre Poilievre
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – The bosses of 38 Canadian oil and gas corporations signed a letter of congratulations to Prime Minister Mark Carney after his April 28 election victory and…
NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is seriously underperforming and people are starting to notice
It is to be hoped that Premier Danielle Smith’s continuing strong polling numbers will catch the attention of someone in Alberta’s New Democratic Party Opposition, preferably somebody to whom Leader…
Annals of the Law: Auditor general asks appeal court not to permit cross-examination of former AHS CEO about info she’s given his office
One doesn’t need to work very hard to read between the lines of Alberta Auditor General Doug Wylie’s filing Tuesday to the Alberta Court of Appeal, which argued that the…
The King’s reading of the Throne Speech: Sounds like the grownups are in charge again
Say what you will about the King’s reading of the Throne Speech in the Senate chamber in Ottawa yesterday, his measured tones did manage to leave the impression that grownups…
Bedevilled by scandal and measles, UCP tries to gin up a moral panic about racy picture books in school libraries
There’s never a bad time for a scandal-ridden right-wing government like Alberta’s United Conservative Party to try to gin up a moral panic over books with dirty pictures in school…
Naheed Nenshi, NDP leader, to get chance to win seat in Alberta Legislature on June 23
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has finally called a by-election in Edmonton Strathcona, four months after NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi was acclaimed as the Opposition party’s candidate in the riding long…
Finance Minister Nate Horner continues to taunt AUPE with an insulting offer in contract negotiations
Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner continues to taunt the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees with an offer for its civil service bargaining unit that is lower than that achieved by…
Sure sounds like Alberta separatists want to have their cake and eat it too
Do you get the feeling that Alberta separatists want to have their cake and eat it too? Last weekend, a social media post from the so-called Alberta Prosperity Project offered…
Guest Post: The zombie Grassy Mountain coal mining proposal never dies because in Alberta the minimum is good enough
Last Thursday, the Alberta Energy Regulator approved a controversial coal exploration project in the environmentally sensitive and beautiful Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The open-pit mining proposal by Australian-owned…
Danielle Smith’s ‘New North American Initiative’ sounds a lot like War Room 3.0
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sounded as if she were almost cackling with glee at a news conference Friday morning where she announced the creation of a “New North American Initiative”…