Alberta Politics: Former Alberta Health Services CEO’s accusations of NDP...
PHOTOS: Former Alberta Health Services CEO and president Vickie Kaminski, who was back in the news yesterday. Below: Former Progressive Conservative health minister Stephen Mandel; NDP health Minister...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Wildrose Party’s half-hearted apology to Ontario premier...
PHOTOS: Wildrose Party Finance Critic and chief Legislative greeter Derek Fildebrandt, demonstrating a typical attitude. Below: Shocked and appalled critics Naheed Nenshi, mayor of Calgary, David...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: What new laws did Alberta’s NDP government...
The Spring session of the Alberta Legislature ended yesterday after forty-days of debate. The evacuation of more than 88,000 Albertans sparked by the wildfires in Fort McMurray dominated the attention...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: The Revolution starts at the Hyatt Regency
Premier Rachel Notley received an endorsement from 97.8 percent of New Democratic Party delegates at this past weekend’s convention at the fancy Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Calgary. The event was...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: In or Out? Jason Kenney could have a rough...
CBC reports that after 19 years as a Member of Parliament in Ottawa, former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney, 48, is considering entering provincial politics in Alberta. Postmedia’s Jen Gerson...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney: Conservative saviour or a guy with the appeal...
PHOTOS: Jason Kenney at a NATO do, looking positively Nixonian (from his Facebook page). Below: The only shot I ever managed to get of Mr. Kenney myself; former Progressive Conservative saviour Jim...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney’s bizarre ‘Brexit’ broadsides: the explanation...
ILLUSTRATION: Press Progress’s take on Jason Kenney’s “Brexit” broadsides Thursday night and yesterday morning (Press Progress image). Below: The Acme Professional Dog Whistle, now commanding attention...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Wildrose leader’s public spat with the mayor of Montreal...
PHOTOS: Wildrose Opposition leader Brian Jean has been giving Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre the sink-eye again lately. Below: Mr. Coderre, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Don’t...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Two Tories step up to run in...
Following former prime minister Stephen Harper’s resignation last week, a by-election must be called in the Calgary-Heritage riding by February 25, 2017. Two candidates have already entered the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Strategist Stephen Carter’s reputation instantly boosts...
PHOTOS: Political strategist Stephen Carter, who says he’s now advising potential Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Sandra Jansen. Below: Ms. Jansen, who says she’s very close to making a...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Who Let the Monsters Out?
To paraphrase Mayor Nenshi, we must never forget how easy it is for a narcissist with a microphone to open the closet door and let the monsters out.Donald Trump, a woefully inexperienced blowhard,...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: A ‘merger’ between the Alberta Party and the Progressive...
PHOTOS: A meeting of the Alberta Party’s “Big Listen,” circa 2010. Actual Alberta Party coffee parties may not have appeared exactly as illustrated. Below: Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, former...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Worthwhile Canadian initiative … Rona Ambrose said to be...
PHOTOS: Outgoing interim federal Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose listens seriously to someone in this Government of Canada shot found lingering on the Internet. Below: Ms. Ambrose and her domestic...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: There’s no life like it! Alberta’s right-wing troll army is...
ILLUSTRATIONS: Poster thanks to the U.S. Army, circa 1941-42 or whenever they finally got around to joining the fight, with a little help from PhotoShop. Below: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi – is he the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: David Khan elected to lead Alberta Liberals 100 years less...
PHOTOS: New Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan, at left, in a hopelessly self-referential photo with your blogger. (Photo: Dave Cournoyer.) Below: Liberal leadership candidate Kerry Cundal, leadership...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Jim Dinning 6.0: how Jason Kenney is repeating the same...
PHOTOS: Singer k.d. lang (handout photo, via CBC). Below: Jim Dinning 1.0 and Jim Dinning 6.0. Is it just me, or is it mildly surprising that Jason Kenney turned down k.d. lang’s offer of free tickets...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The game’s afoot! The time is now to demand candidates...
PHOTOS: St. Albert’s renowned city hall, designed by Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal, formally known as St. Albert Place. Below: The three candidates for mayor who are now now officially in the...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Common Sense?
No one needs policies anymore. Everything can be decided by using good ol’ common sense. A group calling itself Common Sense Calgary is telling Calgarians that “the same unions that backed the NDP...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Nenshi in a tight race while Iveson coasts...
Photo: Diana McQueen, Don Iveson, Jim Prentice and Naheed Nenshi sign the Framework Agreement that paved the way for the development of city charters on Oct. 7, 2014 (Photo source: Government of...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Who is it going to be: Nenshi or Smith?
This Monday Calgary voters will elect their mayor. The winner will be expected to lead Calgary out of one of the worst economic downturns it has experienced in decades. So, who is it going to be:...
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