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!
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Jason Kenney, working remotely by cellphone from London queue, tweets ostentatiously while waiting to bid farewell to Queen
Now that such revelations are an established practice, surely we are entitled to the grand total of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s phone bill whilst he sojourned in London.
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Canadian Conservative affection for the monarchy: 1.6 kilometres wide and 2.54 centimetres deep!
They don’t have a monarchist bone in their bodies nowadays, these Canadian Conservatives.
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After years spent building Alberta Health Services, UCP leadership candidates talk decentralization
If Alberta introduces more chaos and expense by decentralizing AHS, the morale of the province’s already demoralized health care workforce is bound to collapse.
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So, some things seem to have changed in the past couple of days: We’ll have something to say about that!
As Canute, King of England from 1016 to 1035, famously demonstrated, you can’t just order the tide to change.
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NDP Leader Rachel Notley vows to reverse UCP policies that reduced worker overtime and the youth minimum wage
Opposition Leader Rachel Notley vowed yesterday to reverse two United Conservative Party policies that reduced overtime payments for many working Albertans and lowered minimum wages for young people if the NDP forms government after the next election. Ms. Notley said at a Labour Day news conference in Edmonton that the NDP is committed to restoring […]