Alberta Politics12h
No party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like the NDP, and none does it with the flair they do in B.C.
No political party can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the NDP! And, as we watched in horror Saturday night, no ...
Alberta Politics2d
Grant Notley left a greater mark on Alberta than his position as leader and sole MLA of a small party would suggest
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death in an airplane crash of Grant Notley, a man who left a greater mark on Alberta ...
Alberta Politics3d
Calgary Cancer Centre to open on Oct. 28; Alberta premier promises miraculous ‘future without cancer’
There were seven uninformative canned quotes in the Alberta Government’s news release yesterday announcing the imminent ...
Alberta Politics5d
Everybody understands the point of the UCP’s ‘Scrap the Cap’ ads is to use taxpayer money to campaign against the Liberals
Surely everybody understands that the point of the United Conservative Party Government’s $7-million “Scrap the Cap” scare campaign announced yesterday is to use Alberta taxpayers’ money to campaign ...
Alberta Politics8d
No pharmacare, please, we’re Alberta Conservatives! … and if there’s no grift, there’ll be no gift!
Health Minister Adriana LaGrange in Hinton on Oct. 3 (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Alberta still won’t join the federal pharmacare program. Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as snapped ...
Alberta Politics9d
Green Line Revisionist History: It’s Hard to Fix When Hick from Sticks Nixes Klicks of Clacks on Cowtown Tracks!
Lucinda Chodan, former editor of the Edmonton Journal and the Montreal Gazette in front of the Gazette’s offices in 2014 (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). I did something old-timey with my hotel breakfast ...
Alberta Politics9d
National Newspaper Week
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 in the newspaper business in 1972, ...
Alberta Politics9d
Schrödinger’s Train
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 in the newspaper business in 1972, ...
Alberta Politics11d
Jennifer Johnson, the deplorable poop-cookie lady, is welcomed back into the bosom of the UCP
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Jennifer Johnson appeared together at the Ponoka Rodeo in June (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). CALGARY – If the United Conservative Party Caucus ...
Alberta Politics10d
Devin Dreeshen reaffirms previously unaffirmed and formerly affirmed Calgary Green Line
Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). CALGARY – In what had to be a humiliating climbdown, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen issued a joint ...
Alberta Politics11d
Smith-Johnson-Main
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Jennifer Johnson appeared together at the Ponoka Rodeo in June (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr).
Alberta Politics10d
Calgary Green Line LRT
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 Line ...