The former Wildrose Party leader captured 53.77 of the votes on the final ballot of the party election to Travis Toews’s 46.23 per cent. From the victor’s perspective, this was too close for comfort.
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The Big Gamble: Danielle Smith vows to roll the dice on a radical right-wing reordering of Alberta
Barring a miracle, Danielle Smith is about to deliver the Big Gamble that Preston Manning, the erstwhile Svengali and Godfather of the Canadian right, always wanted. That is to say, the woman who is about to be named Alberta’s unelected premier by less than 3.5 per cent of the province’s eligible voters will roll the […]
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Jason Kenney took months to become as unpopular as he is; Danielle Smith is poised to get there overnight!
It took Premier Jason Kenney a couple of years and plenty of fallout from a deadly pandemic and a series of policy flops to become the most unpopular provincial politician in Alberta. It looks like Danielle Smith may achieve that status the instant she’s declared to be the province’s unelected premier by the United Conservative […]
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Danielle Smith has neither the temperament nor the right ideology to lead a united conservative party for long
By now the UCP establishment must be thinking the only way to save the party may be by splitting with the lunatics before it’s too late!
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Conservative political activist Craig Chandler files defamation lawsuit against political scientist Duane Bratt, who vows vigorous defence
Professor Bratt is probably Alberta’s highest-profile and most quoted political scientist. He made it clear in his Statement of Defence he intends to defend himself vigorously against the lawsuit.
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Turn and face the strange, ch-ch-changes … Edmonton’s Federal Building and B.C.’s Liberals get new names
What better future could one imagine for B.C.’s united neoliberals or their similarly united Alberta counterparts than to continue onward, honourably, as a chain of automotive electrical charging stations?
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‘All options on table’ to block federal gun buy-back, vows Tyler Shandro … as clock runs out on Kenney Government
Tyler Shandro is clearly trying to pick a fight with the feds to score a point with the UCP base while Jason Kenney himself attempts to rebrand himself as a statesman and dignified advocate of civility.
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Jason Kenney’s long goodbye draws to a close – let the revision of history begin!
“I was never intending to be in this gig for a long time.” Alberta’s premier wants us to think he intended to leave his job a year after being re-elected.
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Danielle Smith’s dead political career? It’s alive … with a vengeance! But what fresh disaster looms?
Politically attentive Albertans are starting to realize Danielle Smith really is likely to be premier soon.
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Bright Lights, Small Cities: Alberta may be calling but it’s doubtful Toronto is listening
Lame ducks to plain ducks, we’ve got it all in Alberta, and we’ve sent Premier Jason Kenney and a couple of MLA sidekicks to tell you all about it, Toronto!
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Former justice minister Kaycee Madu declares fealty to UCP frontrunner Danielle Smith by hailing convoy blockaders
Danielle Smith, meanwhile, is touting her own rather dubious poll, which unsurprisingly suggests a UCP she leads could beat Ms. Notley’s NDP in a general election.
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Small Edmonton crowd says farewell to Queen Elizabeth as tired premier manages a reasonably dignified speech
Jason Kenney did not, to his credit and notwithstanding his religious convictions, call for the Queen to be proclaimed a saint – as someone actually did in the pages of the Globe and Mail yesterday!