PHOTOS: An Alberta Public Service Commission message to civil servants. Actual public service bulletin board notices may not appear exactly as illustrated, and certainly do not in that colour! Below: Premier Jim Prentice and Acting Deputy Minister of Justice Kim Armstrong. Now, about those directives sent to Alberta Justice employees and other civil servants instructing […]
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1998 private school funding report puts premier’s support for ‘choice’ in education into context
PHOTOS: Private school students … they deserve public funding because their parents deserve choice. Below: More deserving private school students. Students enrolled at private schools in Alberta may not appear exactly as illustrated, no matter how much tuition they pay. Below them: A youngish Jim Prentice, probably pretty much as he looked circa 1997. The […]
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Energized Alberta New Democrats see Orange as they shake the chandeliers in Edmonton theatre
PHOTOS: Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley addresses a throng of New Democrats in Edmonton Sunday. Below: The late Jack Layton, looking frail but energetic, in Edmonton in April 2011, Ms. Notley again, with some of her supporters at Sunday’s rally in the Citadel Theatre. The chandeliers are visible. Well, New Democrat supporters from the Capital […]
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If the post-Smith Wildrose Party’s really in a position to win a majority, this campaign will turn ugly fast
PHOTOS: A dust storm blows through Edmonton Saturday … or was that the Forum Research poll? (Mack D. Male photo, grabbed from Twitter.) Below: Pollster Lorne Bozinoff and Pastor Allan Hunsperger. With a new poll, however fanciful, projecting a Wildrose majority in the May 5 Alberta election, it seems pretty certain Alberta’s election campaign is […]
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Has the world turned, or are the polls just wrong again? Why the punditocracy is fussing
The Alberta Legislature, before the arrival of the political scientists, bloggers and journalists with Twitter accounts. Below: Political scientist Duane Bratt of Mount Royal University, Don Braid of the Calgary Herald and Marc Henry of the ThinkHQ polling company. Notwithstanding the new narrative, Big PoliSci is worried about numbers like these, finding them hard to […]
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Just who is Jim Prentice calling an extremist? … Peter Lougheed?
PHOTOS: The extremist Peter Lougheed surrounded by some of his extremist supporters on his way to nationalize an airline, impose order on an oilsands development or, quelle horreur, treat Albertans’ resources as if we owned them! Reality may not appear exactly as described by Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, shown below apparently appalled by the kind […]
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Prentice to Albertans: I’ve listened. You don’t want an election. You’re getting one anyway!
PHOTOS: A group of Albertans enjoys the ride aboard the Progressive Conservative oil price and budgeting roller coaster. Actual Alberta PC supporters may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, recently departed PC Party president Jim McCormick, Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo MLA Mike Allen and reputed genius Albert Einstein. “Choose Alberta’s Future?” If […]
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Alberta NDP fields full slate for the provincial election that’s expected to be called today
PHOTOS: NDP Leader Rachel Notley speaks with a throng of media yesterday in East Edmonton, telling them her party will field a full slate of 87 candidates in the next provincial election, expected to be called today. Below: NDP Edmonton-Gold Bar candidate Marlin Schmidt, Ms. Notley’s image as it was fed to CTV News, and […]
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Say what? Tony Caterina to serve as unpaid city councillor while he runs for MLA
PHOTOS: PC Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview challenger Tony Caterina, right, with NDP incumbent MLA Deron Bilous, left, in a shot grabbed from Mr. Caterina’s Facebook page. Below: My photos of Mr. Caterina, Mr. Bilous and former Tory MLA Carl Benito. Is it just me, or is there something distinctly weird about Tony Caterina’s revelation that, seeing as he’s […]
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Shelley Biermanski as Wildrose candidate in St. Albert? Not a certainty, maybe, but an intriguing possibility
PHOTOS: The apparently seldom photographed Shelley Biermanski, at left, with some of the usual suspects at a past St. Albert election forum (St. Albert Gazette photo). Below: Ms. Biermanski in her campaign photo, NDP candidate Marie Renaud and Progressive Conservative MLA Stephen Khan during a rare bearded moment. ST. ALBERT, Alberta If the Prentice Government […]
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Now two polls suggest Albertans are abandoning PCs for Wildrose 2.0 and NDP – plus many think global warming is a hoax!
PHOTOS: Who cares what Albertans think? Elvis is alive. Obviously! Below: Pollster Allan Gregg and Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. Here’s my advice to members of Wildrose 2.0, the Alberta NDP and the other opposition parties with and without seats in the Legislature: Don’t start measuring the drapes in the ministers’ offices just yet. Yes, there […]
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Well-known former Alberta political rivals set to team up in high-powered U.S. consulting firm
PHOTOS: Under the stars at Vitor & Stefan’s Bistro in Cabo San Lucas. Below: Consultancy founder Alison Redford and her new partner, Danielle Smith. Back in the day, they were two of Alberta, Canada’s highest-powered political success stories. PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (April 1, 2015) Two well known political rivals from Alberta’s recent past have teamed […]