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. […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
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 […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
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 […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice seems like a guy looking for a parade to get in front of, so he can say he’s the leader
PHOTOS: Dammit! There’s a parade around here somewhere! I keep hearing the bagpipes! Below: Political leader, or something, Jim Prentice and journalists Don Braid and Charles Rusnell. Alberta Premier Jim Prentice keeps floating trial balloons about new ways to cut government spending, and then backing away the instant someone pops ’em. I don’t know about […]
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It’s time for media to stop enabling the Fraser Institute’s misleading practices, lack of rigour and cheap embargo tricks
PHOTOS: The Alberta media gets ready to cover today’s startling revelations from the Fraser Institute. With embargoed press releases from the boiler room for corporate propaganda coming in on both lines, there’s no time to seek balance from people who actually know what they’re talking about. Below: A couple of people who actually know what […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Don’t blame Alberta’s thoughtful, independent PC MLAs for embarrassing the government! It’s that darned Constitution!
PHOTOS: Premier Jim Prentice in his new role as Supreme Leader of Alberta. He didn’t tell the Committee on Legislative Offices how to vote, nor would he ever do so. After a while, the PC members just knew they had to do the right thing. Who can explain why the Opposition acts as it does? […]
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s latest talking point revealed: they’re doing it for the poor!
PHOTOS: Your blogger, David Climenhaga, with CBC Edmonton morning drive show host Mark Connolly in the network’s downtown studio. Below: Canadian Taxpayers Federation Prairie Director Colin Craig frozen in a video screenshot and City of Edmonton Chief Economist John Rose (CBC photo). So it turns out the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is concerned about the poor […]
Posted inGeopolitics
Those Canadian troops in Ukraine? The Minsk II Agreement says they need to be pulled out right now
PHOTOS: The main protagonists in the Minsk II Agreement negotiations, from left to right, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (Wikipedia Commons). Below: Canada’s former defence minister, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson; Defence Minister Jason Kenney; former foreign affairs minister […]
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Are there any progressives left in Alberta’s Progressive Conservative caucus?
Sorry, boys, you’re all getting a haircut, and it won’t necessarily be a good one! Below: Premier Jim Prentice, Robin Campbell and Ralph Klein. Not a clue in the whole carload! A year ago, Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Government apparently had no idea there would be a revenue shortfall today. Now they’re confidently predicting we’ll have […]
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BREAKING DRIVEL! Mud on its face, a big disgrace, Sun News Network perishes from the earth
PHOTOS: For sale, news truck, like new, barely used to cover news. Below: Sun News commentator Ezra Levant in Sun News mode. I suppose this means my complaints about Sun News Network’s offensive attacks will never be resolved. Oh well, I guess I can live with my objections being rendered moot by the disappearance of […]