Political avian flu update: Will Doug Horner send medical association's...
Will the Alberta Medical Association learn any useful lessons from Doug Horner's health-care policy, which the Progressive Conservative leadership candidate announced yesterday morning?Well, that...
View ArticleSix lessons to draw from Alison Redford's Alberta victory
Alison Redford's victory this morning in the race to lead the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party and become the province's premier was surprising, but it was hardly astonishing.Gary Mar, after all,...
View ArticleSure, Gary Mar's $264,576 Asian sinecure is sweet, but does it come with...
Word that Gary Mar is about to be sent into a comfortable voluntary exile in Asia by Premier Alison Redford prompted an instant and harsh reaction among many members of the Alberta public.read more
View ArticleAdoration of Peter Lougheed moves beyond canonization into deification
With his state funeral yesterday afternoon, the official adoration of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed moved beyond canonization into deification.If other Canadians happened to pause and listen to...
View ArticleIs massive Alberta Health Services entity about to be re-reorganized and...
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca.Is it possible to be chaotic and paralyzed at the same time?That would appear to be the paradoxical state...
View ArticleThe Ides of March: Alison Redford under 'friendly fire' from coup plotters in...
It's less than a week until the Ides of March and signs are now plentiful an attempt to topple Alberta Premier Alison Redford is under way.By all accounts the coup plotters come from within the...
View ArticleTales from the Alberta Tory crypt: Apres Alison le deluge
If we were to speak for former Alberta premier Alison Redford today, here is what we would say: "Apres moi le deluge!"There is plenty of fight left in the Alberta PC Party. The trouble is, it is all...
View ArticleMunicipal Affairs Minister quits Alberta cabinet -- presumably to run for PC...
Alberta's Municipal Affairs Minister quit his cabinet post yesterday, by the sound of it because he intends to run for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party.If that's the...
View ArticleWill Jim Prentice, favourite of Alberta's chattering classes, turn out to be...
Jim Who?Ask the typical Albertan who is not a member of the chattering classes if they've ever heard of Jim Prentice, and they'll likely say something like this: "The name sounds familiar. I oughtta...
View ArticleCould Ric McIver still win the Alberta Tory leadership race? Actually, yes,...
CALGARYCould Ric McIver actually win the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race?Or, to put that another way, could Jim Prentice lose?Maybe that seems like a theme for a political science...
View ArticleThat Portrait of a Certain Lady: A bargain at $12,000? Or not?
VICTORIA, B.C."Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray While we all wait for tomorrow night to see if fund-raising prowess or...
View ArticlePrentice in a walk -- but the low Alberta PC voter turnout tells the real story
VICTORIA, B.C.Well! That's it then. Jim Prentice in a walk, the first time the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party has actually chosen the frontrunner in the past three leadership races, maybe four...
View ArticleWhat Would Ralph Do? Faced with plummeting oil prices, he taxed and spent
What would Ralph do?In a typically lame editorial over the weekend, the Edmonton Sun asked: "If Premier Ralph Klein were facing a $7-billion drop in revenues in the coming year, how would he handle...
View ArticleHow low can Jim Prentice go?
How low can Jim go?By which I mean, to put this entertaining question another way, how many seats can Alberta Premier Jim Prentice lose for the nearly 44-year-old Progressive Conservative Government he...
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One day after his graceless departure, former Alberta 'envoy' to Washington...
Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Rob Merrifield's parting shot at the Alberta government: tacky. Canadian Strategy Group's decision to hire Merrifield as a lobbyist: Um, are you sure you're...
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