There’s no question Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen will make Alberta’s highways deadlier with his plan to raise speed limits in several locations. He’s already made them more dangerous with his…
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…
Alberta’s United Conservative Party must really fear the potential impact of the Corrupt Care Scandal, as the NDP Opposition has dubbed the continuing brouhaha about dodgy contracts pushed on Alberta…
I did something old-timey with my hotel breakfast today: I read a newspaper, an actual newspaper, the Friday edition of the Calgary Sun. For a guy who got his start…
CALGARY – In what had to be a humiliating climbdown, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen issued a joint statement this morning with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek explaining that the Green…
Now that he’s unintentionally appointed himself Calgary Public Transit Czar, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen is starting to sound as if he’d really prefer to shed the responsibility. Too bad,…
When Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen sent his letter to Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek last Tuesday telling her the province was pulling its promised $1.53-billion contribution to the Green Line…
Let’s try to figure this out: On July 29, Calgary’s $6.3-billion Green Line light rail transit extension project was worthwhile enough for Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen to assure Calgary…
Declaration of a provincial state of emergency just 23 days before the spring election introduces a new level of complexity to Alberta’s electoral math. Alberta Opposition Leader Rachel Notley (Photo:…
Almost no one expected Devin Dreeshen to resign from Jason Kenney’s cabinet Friday morning. The thirtysomething minister of agriculture may have been mired in a messy scandal stemming from allegations…
As the folk wisdom goes, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Jason Kenney got his wish yesterday when Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet told him,…
“Alberta has always had close ties to the United States, so it’s painful to watch the bizarre scenes unfolding at the U.S. Capitol,” Jason Kenney lamented yesterday, presumably tweeting from…
Happy New Year, Alberta! And welcome to the first United Conservative Party Government scandal of 2021: Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard has been caught vacationing in Hawaii, mid-pandemic. Lethbridge-East MLA…
“They’re trying to take away our culture, they’re trying to take away our history,” Donald Trump complained back in 2017 about activists who call for the removal statues of Confederate…
Alberta’s United Conservatives: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it. Well, Premier Jason Kenney’s UCP wasn’t the first political party to discover turnabout is fair play, and…
Who can forget Nov. 6, 2015, the day that will live in infamy? Just about everybody, as it turned out. Jason Kenney and Stephen Harper (Photo: Facebook). That was the…
Alberta Labour’s occupational health and safety inspector didn’t actually visit the Cargill Inc. meatpacking plant in High River when the ministry inspected its COVID-19 safety measures on April 15. Instead,…
By insisting Alberta’s meat-packing plants are safe to work in despite crowded conditions and ignoring workers’ pleas to temporarily close large slaughterhouses to halt the spread of COVID-19, Alberta Agriculture…
Where’s the tough guy we got to know during the last Alberta election campaign, the Jason Kenney of the Summer of Repeal, the War Room and the War on Foreign…
When the New York Daily News published its famous FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD headline on Oct. 30, 1975, all president Gerald Ford had done was deny a federal bailout…
