Was it mere coincidence Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner released an unhappy statement saying the province’s projected budget deficit will be $1.3 billion bigger than what he promised in last…
Alberta Affordability Minister Nathan Neudorf is jetting off today for a nice 10-day holiday in the United Kingdom … mostly at his own expense. Not entirely at his own expense,…
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the $100 her government intends to charge most Albertans who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is just an “administration fee” to cover the…
If you’d hoped Danielle Smith’s flip-flop from denying free COVID-19 vaccinations to health care workers to providing them might indicate she could also have a change of heart on vaccines…
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government reappointed lawyer Byron Nelson on Wednesday to a second three-year term as chair of the board of governors of Athabasca University. The cabinet order was…
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government just flip-flopped on plans to make health care workers pay for COVID-19 vaccinations and to stop making cabinet ministers file expense claims. So what gives?…
No drama. No surprise. Pierre Poilievre won without breaking into a sweat. So what else is new? After last night, or maybe today, the good voters of Battle River-Crowfoot will…
Despite the presence of members of the United Conservative Party’s MAGA base primed to cheer and boo in all the right places, it sure sounded as if Premier Danielle Smith’s…
With its BookVaccine.Alberta.ca website, which is confusing and upsetting significant numbers of Albertans fearful they will lose access to lifesaving COVID-19 immunization, Alberta’s United Conservative Party has made a significant…
It must have nearly killed Danielle Smith yesterday to come out and advocate for Canada to drop its 100-per-cent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Admittedly, Alberta’s premier did so half-heartedly.…
Alberta’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing began yesterday with the appearance of a website where Albertans can register to be considered for COVID-19 immunization sometime in the fall…
If the already constrained investigation by a retired Manitoba judge into allegations of dodgy health care contracts pushed by influential figures in the Alberta Government is now beset by leaks…
Where’s the Alberta Energy “War Room” now that the United Conservative Party needs it? Yesterday The New York Times published a major feature story on Alberta’s burgeoning measles epidemic –…
A government lawyer will be in court today in Edmonton to intervene on behalf of a group that wants Alberta to separate from Canada. A letter yesterday from a Justice…
The Alberta NDP will not formally participate in the Forever Canadian petition drive. On Monday, I asked the Opposition Party how it expected to interact with former Progressive Conservative Deputy…
Beset by allegations of health care contracting corruption, international coverage of a self-inflicted measles epidemic, anger at municipal political parties nobody wants, increasingly aggressive push-back against their separatist project, and…
No sooner was Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer embroiled in a back and forth with Danielle Smith and her justice minister about his decision to ask the courts if a referendum…
Notwithstanding frequent protestations to the contrary, it gets harder by the day to believe Premier Danielle Smith and a significant portion of her cabinet and caucus are not fully committed…
Regardless of what you think of the Longest Ballot Committee’s call for Canadian electoral reform, you have to admit that Elections Canada’s solution yesterday to the mischievous addition of more…
Back in 2018, I asked, “Do we need a Canadian version of the Logan Act to put a stop to dangerous freelance diplomacy?” The proximate cause of this rhetorical query…
