Welcome to Alberta where you can now be a law-abiding citizen while defying the law! Says who? Says Tyler Shandro, minister of justice, who announced yesterday that the province will…
Danielle Smith’s obedient United Conservative Party Caucus rammed through the premier’s so-called Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act in the wee hours of yesterday morning. Opposition Leader Rachel Notley…
Alberta’s New Democratic Party has refused to allow itself to get sucked into the vortex Government’s effort to fix its unfixable Sovereignty Act. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr).…
With the thoughts that you’ll be thinkin’You could be another Lincolnif you only had a brain.— Scarecrow, The Wizard of Oz OTTAWA Could Danielle Smith have handled introduction of her…
OTTAWA Question: Now that Jason Kenney has taken to social media to announce he’s retiring from Alberta politics, how likely is it that Premier Danielle Smith will call a by-election…
Serious question: How long before Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government tries to ban mask wearing in schools, period? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flicker). After all, nothing triggers an…
Premier Danielle Smith’s nine-minute televised message to the people of Alberta last night, which at least had the virtue of brevity, could be divided into roughly four parts: 1. Inflation…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered on her long-promised shakeup of Alberta Health Services yesterday, firing the 11 members of the province-wide agency’s Conservative-appointed board and naming John Cowell as its…
Never mind “less is more.” Sometimes more is less. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Jake Wright/Manning Centre/Creative Commons). Consider Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s mandate letter to Health Minister Jason Copping.…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith yesterday sent a letter to Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek chattering excitedly about plans to expand Calgary’s light rail transit system to Calgary International Airport. Alberta Premier…
As long threatened, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government yesterday announced the end of Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s tenure as the province’s chief medical officer of health through the…
It’s always the best of times in Alberta; it’s always the worst of times. Readers may recall how Jason Kenney’s Best Summer Ever was followed by the worst winter ever.…
Cometh the hour, cometh the mandate letter. Education Minister Adriana LaGrange (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Premier Danielle Smith, having won a seat in the Legislature Wednesday night, immediately turned to the…
Who knew the Brooks-Medicine Hat by-election results would turn out to be exciting? NDP candidate Gwendoline Dirk (Photo: CHAT News). Well, sort of exciting. Everyone was pretty sure Alberta Premier…
If Alberta’s United Conservative Party were the “centre right” political party its leader Danielle Smith would like us to imagine it is, the disqualification of Nadine Wellwood as a candidate…
“We are going to beat the NDP in rural Alberta, we are going to beat the NDP in Edmonton, and we are going to beat the NDP in Calgary,” shouts…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith vowed Saturday to take measures to ensure masking mandates for children in Alberta’s kindergarten-to-Grade-12 classes can no longer be imposed. Justice Grant Dunlop of the Alberta…
It’s hardly reassuring to learn Alberta’s new Danielle Smith Government is apparently so inept it didn’t know that it needed a minister to oversee the administration of the province’s labour…
So what happens now that half the 18 elected members of the United Conservative Party board are vaccine-skeptical allies of Premier Danielle Smith? Mount Royal University political science professor Duane…
Members of Alberta’s only two political parties with MLAs in the Legislature met in convention yesterday – the governing United Conservatives in Edmonton and Opposition New Democrats in Calgary –…
