PHOTOS: Unintended irony? Wildrose MLA Shayne Saskiw from last year’s Canadian Strategy Group House of Cards Alberta political division promotion. Below: Former Wildrose House leader Rob Anderson. The intense furor over the defection of majority of Alberta Wildrose Opposition to the Progressive Conservative government seems to have prompted new clarifying statements from two of the […]
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Has premier Jim Prentice just found himself up ‘Schitt$ Creek’ with former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith?
According to the unintendedly ironic and transitory layout on CBC Calgary’s news page yesterday afternoon, it looked as if former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith is up Schitt$ Creek. Actually, this is probably a pretty good assessment of the reality faced by Smith, at least with a small allowance for spelling, now that the good […]
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Has premier Jim Prentice just found himself up ‘Schitt$ Creek’ with former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith?
PHOTOS: Danielle Smith, up Schitt$ Creek, or something very much like that, as the PCs prepare to allow all comers to run against her. Below: Independent MLA Joe Anglin and PC Party Executive Director Kelley Charlebois. According to the unintendedly ironic and transitory layout on CBC Calgary’s news page yesterday afternoon, it looked as if […]
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Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is weaker today because of the Wildrose floor-crossing fiasco
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice: not the political genius we were told he was. Below: Former Wildrose House leader Rob Anderson and Wildrose MLA Shayne Saskiw. Surely the key message of the Wildrose floor-crossing debacle is that no one can feel confident Alberta Premier Jim Prentice will keep his promises. This potential lack of reliability […]
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First casualty of outrage at Wildrose floor crossing? Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson says he will quit politics
Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson, understood to have been one of the key leaders in the controversial effort to get the majority of the Wildrose caucus to defect to the Progressive Conservative Party on Dec. 17, announced on Facebook just before midnight he intends to leave politics after the next Alberta general election. The abrupt timing […]
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First casualty of outrage at Wildrose floor crossing? Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson says he will quit politics
PHOTO: Airdrie Progressive Conservative, formerly Wildrose, formerly Progressive Conservative MLA Rob Anderson speaking in the snow on the steps of the Alberta Legislature last winter. Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson, understood to have been one of the key leaders in the controversial effort to get the majority of the Wildrose caucus to defect to the Progressive […]
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Alberta’s Wildrose remnant has new role as ‘conscience of the right’? Come off it, guys!
Fallout from the march of the Mudville Nine from the Opposition Wildrose benches to the government’s Progressive Conservative caucus continues to drift across Alberta. So serious is the contamination in some conservative circles that whole regions of the province may have to be declared Zones of Alienation like the area around the nuclear city of […]
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Alberta’s Wildrose remnant has new role as ‘conscience of the right’? Come off it, guys!
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice considers whether to listen to the conscience of the conservative movement. What do you think he’ll do? Actual Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Blogger and former Wildrose (Alliance) Party president John Hilton-O’Brien (photo grabbed from his Twitter account). Fallout from the march of the Mudville Nine […]
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Explaining the revulsion: It’s not the policy differences, stupid! It’s the Wildrose corruption critique
Why are Albertans so angry about the defection of 11 Wildrose opposition members to the government’s benches? I mean, why are they really so furious? The reason — and it’s surprising there’s been so little commentary that comes right out and says this — is that Albertans accepted the basic premise of the Wildrose Party’s […]
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Explaining the revulsion: It’s not the policy differences, stupid! It’s the Wildrose corruption critique
PHOTOS: Former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith and Premier Jim Prentice explain their reasons on Dec. 17 for the mass defection of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition to the government as Her Majesty herself, Queen Elizabeth, looks on in horror. Below: Former premiers Alison Redford and Ed Stelmach. Why are Albertans so angry about the defection […]
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Poll says all is well in the Alberta garden as disappointed voters file sombrely back into PC ranks
Support for the Wildrose Party is plummeting as supporters angered by the defection of 11 MLAs to the governing PCs have turned on the five Wildrose MLAs who didn’t cross the floor. Go figure! Read more on AlbertaPolitics.ca.
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Poll says all is well in the Alberta garden as disappointed Wildrose voters file sombrely back into PC ranks
PHOTOS: Getting there is half the fun … Being there is all of it! Jim Prentice, premier and political genius, or something like that, makes his way home from work after a hard day at the Legislature. Actual Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: The fictional Chauncey Gardiner, the real-life Jim Prentice […]