ILLUSTRATIONS: What many Albertans now see when they consult their magic mirrors about what’s actually causing their province’s current economic troubles. Below: Former Social Credit premier E.C. Manning and current NDP Leader Rachel Notley. Wicked Queen to Mirror: “Mirror, mirror coin machine, am I still the cutest queen?” Mirror to Wicked Queen: “You are now, […]
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Alberta premier calls for better gender balance on boards while preserving the ‘Alberta Disadvantage’ for women
ILLUSTRATIONS: A flat tax for a flat earth: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice arrives at the edge of the flat earth and pokes his head through to see the wonderful machinery of the free market as described by the “senior fellows” at the Fraser Institute. Actual Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated, and the […]
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Apocalypse Now! (Details to follow) Get ready, Alberta, for the glories of the First Ten Year Plan
PHOTOS: Where would we be in Alberta without GroupThink ™? All hail the glories of the First Ten Year Plan. Pick up your quota of pain at the commissar’s office. Actual Progressive Conservative Youth may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: A Five Year Plan poster from … somewhere. Wherever it’s from, it’s a great […]
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Jim Prentice to Rotarians: Don’t read my lips, but no new taxes! Everything else will be revealed later …
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice demonstrates the concept of “jazz hands” at his post-speech presser yesterday in Edmonton while Labour Minister Ric McIver stands by, perhaps pondering what it would have been like if he’d won the leadership race. Look, sorry, but the only camera I brought was in my cell phone. It’s just not […]
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Prentice PCs prepared to use bare knuckles on battered Wildrose remnants
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, centre, tells Okotoks Councillor Carrie Fischer sorry, but another candidate will probably be getting the Highwood PC nomination on March 28. Actual Alberta political figures may not appear exactly as illustrated. BELOW: Wildrose leadership candidates Brian Jean, Linda Osinchuk and Drew Barnes (Who? – ed.) Below them, the real Carrie […]
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St. Albert’s tax and spend conservatives want us to subsidize their palace for a century!
PHOTOS: An architect’s drawing of the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce’s proposed tax-subsidized building. Below: Downtown St. Albert – the arrows mark the location of the proposed structure; a detail of St. Albert’s beautiful City Hall, across the street from the prime lot the Chamber wants us to give it for $1 a year for […]
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Jim Prentice’s ‘pathetic lies’: It’s all spin all the time with Alberta’s ‘new management’
PHOTOS: Jimmy Carter, the one-term U.S. president, circa 1976, pretending to be a peanut farmer. Below: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice pretending to be a regular ol’ Albertan and man o’ the people; you know, just like Ralph Klein; pollster Janet Brown. Unlike Jimmy Carter, Jim Prentice doesn’t claim to be a nuclear physicist or a […]
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Tireless promoters of temporary foreign workers have fallen silent … why’s that?
PHOTOS: Canadian ironworkers and their supporters protest the use of temporary foreign workers from the United States to construct the Edmonton Oilers’ arena – which is being built with taxes paid by Canadian workers and their families. Below: The TFWs in a CBC photo at work in a fast-food restaurant; signs at the Edmonton protest. […]
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The surplus sun is shining, so expect the deficit apocalypse: Welcome to the Groundhog Province!
PHOTOS: It’s not Feb. 2 in Alberta any more, but it might as well be. Finance Minister Robin Campbell, in top hat, explains how we’re in for six more weeks of winter because the sun is shining. The late but lovable furry former Premier Ralph Klein can be seen in the foreground. Actual Alberta politicians […]
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Obama to Alberta on Keystone XL: Yes! The answer is still No!
The tradesmen’s entrance to the White House in Washington, D.C. Really! Pictured here just to make a point about certain Canadian politicians and the only way they’re likely to get in. Below: Four very powerful persons, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Pope Francis. All sensible measures considered, the president of the United States […]
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With few ideas to end its financial crisis, and austerity the theme in Edmonton, Athabasca U edges toward the precipice
PHOTOS: Athabasca University’s headquarters in the forest near the town of Athabasca, 145 kilometres north of Edmonton. Below: AU President Peter MacKinnon, another view of the entrance to the isolated AU headquarters building. Founded by Alberta’s Social Credit government in 1970 as a leader in distance education for a predominantly rural province, Athabasca University now […]
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Case closed: Mounties end Alison Redford investigation, not with a bang but a whimper
PHOTOS: Alison Redford. As predicted long ago in this space, the Mounties have better things to do than investigate the former premier of Alberta. Below: Former premier pro tempore Dave Hancock and Jonathan Denis, the justice minister then and now. If the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had laid criminal charges against Alison Redford, you can […]