No, Danielle Smith Is NOT A Libertarian
At various times, Danielle Smith has either claimed to be, or acted as if she is a Libertarian. When she became Alberta's premier, people started labelling her "an Authoritarian Libertarian"…
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In frenzied moment, Danielle Smith and UCP move to discipline party rebels and distract from party problems
This is a frenzied moment for Danielle Smith and her United Conservative cabinet and caucus as they attempt to pacify the party’s influential and unhappy separatist faction and distract from…
Danielle Smith didn’t draw a line in the sand for UCP separatists, she instituted a gentle policy of ‘Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell’
Listen carefully to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s post-referendum message to the members of her United Conservative Party and you will understand that she is not sternly drawing a line in…
Danielle Smith to disgruntled separatists, federalists: Thanks everyone, let’s move on!
Standing behind a blue coroplast sign reading “Stronger Alberta within a united Canada” – surely a big step down from the heady days of a “Sovereign Alberta within a united…
Results from first 1.3 million votes show separatist dream going down to definitive defeat
It was clear the instant results from the first million votes counted in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s divisive separation referendum flooded in minutes after 11 o’clock last night that the…
Danielle Smith orders Edmonton City Council to drop its infill housing policy
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her municipal affairs minister, Dan Williams, announced yesterday that their United Conservative Party Government will overrule Edmonton City Council’s infill housing policy, a decade in…
Danielle Smith knows nothing about those separatist ‘negotiations’ in D.C.? So what good is her ‘Top Secret’ security clearance?
Early last May, news media reported that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had been granted “Top Secret” security clearance. Really? A report The Globe and Mail Saturday with new details about…
Everybody loves the romantic dream of high-speed rail – too bad it’s a boondoggle that’s sure to flop
It’s a three-hour drive from Edmonton to Calgary – maybe less with Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen’s new higher speed limits. So does it really make sense to spend $38…
‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation
According to a news account by The Canadian Press that will be read across the Dominion, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered an emotional appeal to Albertans to remain in Canada…
Even with no realistic scenario, ‘independent advisory panel’ couldn’t make Alberta separation look good
At the end of their exertions, even the reliable team of neoliberal apparatchiks assembled by Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite economist last June couldn’t come up with a “scenario” in which…
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…
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…
‘In Alberta we believe in free speech, full stop,’ Danielle Smith says – at least when it comes to hate speech
“In Alberta we believe in free speech. Full stop.” So says Alberta’s premier, Danielle Smith. And it’s true … sort of. We absolutely believe in free speech here in Wild…