It’s Friday the 13th. Let’s hope that’s not an omen about how much the “new oilsands growth incentive” that’ll be announced this afternoon in Calgary is going to cost us…
Judging from the announcement earlier this week about nine new “urgent care centres” the Alberta Government is starting to think about planning to prepare to build sometime in the indeterminate…
So, Ms. Hamm is appealing her disciplinary ruling to the BC Supreme Court. Okay, in itself, I think of that as mostly a "nothing burger" moment. Like every other anti-transgender…
It’s sure starting to look as if Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Minister Dale Nally’s “international mission” to Kentucky’s Bourbon country has taken on a life of its own,…
Dale Nally doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb in Danielle Smith’s relatively low-wattage cabinet. Still, Mr. Nally’s Kentucky bourbon tour mini-scandal is the kind of problem that could easily have…
The big blue Tuesday night tsunami that swamped the red Republicans to our south is now widely credited with having reduced U.S. President Donald J. Trump to a state of…
Lorne Gibson, who has served as both Alberta’s chief electoral officer and its election commissioner as well as Manitoba’s deputy chief electoral officer, returns to AlbertaPolitics.ca with a suggestion about…
There’s a venerable adage in politics, often attributed to Ronald Reagan: If you’re explaining you’re losing. Soon after the report of the so-called Independent Advisory Panel on Electoral Boundaries was…
That didn’t take long. In a snippy letter posted to social media yesterday afternoon, Justice Minister Mickey Amery blew off Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure’s suggestion of a graceful exit…
Paul Parks, a Medicine Hat Emergency Room physician and one of best known advocates for Alberta’s public health care system, announced his intention this afternoon to seek the NDP nomination…
Alberta Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure has just offered Premier Danielle Smith and her MLAs a graceful exit ramp from the embarrassment of having a court overturn a shameless scheme…
Jeffrey Rath’s gravest political sin was that he said what he thought too clearly. And he thought the Queen Bee had betrayed him and his secessionist allies – which she…
Former Alberta Party leader Greg Clark is emerging as an effective opponent of the United Conservative Party’s plan to gerrymander Alberta electoral districts in a scheme to win the next…
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…
Sunday morning, Mount Royal University Professor Duane Bratt took to the social media site previously known as Twitter to observe, “There has been some snap election speculation in Alberta (as…
Has Danielle Smith just relegated the United Conservative Party to the Boneyard of Broken Alberta Political Brands? This is not yet clear, but it’s sure starting to look as if…
According to social media posts last night by two prominent figures in the Alberta separation movement, the board of the Alberta Prosperity Project terminated Mitch Sylvestre as CEO and Jeffrey…
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…
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…
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…
