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 […]
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Plumbing the rural press for hints of how the Mudville Nine were induced to join the Prentice PCs
Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Rod Fox sure didn’t sound very enthused about his recent switch from the Wildrose Party to the Progressive Conservative Party in the apologetic open letter he wrote to his constituents that was published yesterday in a Central Alberta community newspaper. Click here to read more on AlbertaPolitics.ca.
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Plumbing the rural press for hints of how the Mudville Nine were induced to join the Prentice PCs
PHOTOS: Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Rod Fox, elected as a Wildroser, contemplates his future in the Progressive Conservative backbenches. Below: The real Mr. Fox and former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith, also quite real. Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Rod Fox sure didn’t sound very enthused about his recent switch from the Wildrose Party to the Progressive Conservative Party in the […]
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‘Fakes on a Plane’ problems set to return? Blame Dave Hancock for the Prentice Government’s next big problem
It may be 2015 now, but a 2014 problem continues to haunt the government of Premier Jim Prentice. I’m not talking about the Mudville Nine Wildrose defectors. Instead, you can blame Dave Hancock for the Alberta government’s likely next big crisis. Click here to read more on AlbertaPolitics.ca.
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‘Fakes on a Plane’ problems set to return? Blame Dave Hancock for the Prentice Government’s next big problem
PHOTOS: By last summer, former Alberta premier pro tempore Dave Hancock wanted embarrassing explanations to the media like this one in the spring to just go away. Below: Former premier Alison Redford; Auditor General Merwan Saher (CBC photo). It may be 2015 now, but a 2014 problem continues to haunt the government of Premier Jim […]
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The last political act of 2014: The Wizard of Ozberta reveals all without even blushing
What was really interesting and possibly unique about the final political act of 2014 here in Ozberta was that it didn’t take Dorothy, Toto and their three metaphorical friends to pull back the green curtain to reveal the Wizard at work. Click here to read more on AlbertaPolitics.ca. Note to readers: There’s not much point […]
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The last political act of 2014: The Wizard of Ozberta reveals all without even blushing!
PHOTOS: Premier Jim Prentice at work behind the blue curtain. Below: It’s going to take heart, brains and courage for us Ozbertans to do something about the current situation. Below that: Some of Premier Prentice’s key political advisors. Actual Alberta politicians and their advisors may not appear exactly as illustrated. OK, we’re all appalled. But […]
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Guest post: Alberta’s NDP can make the Wildrose collapse work for them, but it’ll be hard work
Guest post by John Ashton An awful lot of New Democrats are asking if the Tory tomfoolery with Wildrose MLAs should cause the Alberta NDP faithful to be filled with horrific anxiety or gleeful, shameful, joy. The answer, as is so often the case, is neither. Click here to read more on AlbertaPolitics.ca.
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Guest post: Alberta’s NDP can make the Wildrose collapse work for them, but it’ll be hard work
PHOTO: Alberta NDP supporters. Does their party have a future? Guest poster John Ashton, a former NDP caucus staffer, says it does – if supporters are willing to work hard. Below: Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley, author John Ashton and Progressive Conservative Premier Jim Prentice. I’m not sure I’m as optimistic as former NDP caucus […]
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Notice to my loyal readers: Those problems with the new site: we’re working on them …
Typical bloggers, waiting for their web hosting service to let them be free to post. Thanks to all of you who have asked if the new site at AlbertaPolitics.ca has been hacked or wondered what is going on. It’s not a hack, it’s a fairly typical problem with a hosting service that does not adapt […]
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This is the last post on Alberta Diary, sort of: Welcome to AlbertaPolitics.ca
Your blogger with Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. Your blogger with another Alberta premier, whose name escapes him at the moment, and with a former Alberta opposition leader. Maybe it’s evidence of the “seven year itch”? Leastways, it was seven years ago on Dec. 31, 2007, that I started this blog, promising commentary on politics, baseball […]
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An important message for the readers of Alberta Diary – welcome to AlbertaPolitics.ca
PHOTOS: Your blogger with Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. Below: Your blogger with another Alberta premier, whose name escapes him at the moment, and with a former Alberta opposition leader. Maybe it’s evidence of the “seven year itch”? Leastways, it was seven years ago on Dec. 31, 2007, that I started my blog, promising commentary on politics, […]