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 […]
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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 […]