With recent polling results giving many MLAs in the Alberta NDP’s substantial Opposition caucus the jitters, the by-election next Monday in Edmonton-Ellerslie is shaping up to be a significant test ...

Everybody who’s been paying attention to what Alberta Danielle Smith has been saying and doing for years understands that her ...

Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3550 President Mandy Lamoureux (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).

In a classic Friday afternoon bad-news dump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government announced ...

Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides at a recent news conference on a different topic than yesterday’s (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). There’s never a bad time for a scandal-ridden ...

I’ve been writing these little meditations on the state of politics in Alberta now longer than it takes an infant to grow old ...

Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner at an unrelated recent news conference (Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner continues to taunt the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees ...

There’s no way to suggest a 94.5-per-cent strike vote by nearly 39,000 Alberta teachers doesn’t represent a pretty solid ...

It’s now been 81 years since our magnificent Canadian soldiers stormed ashore at Juno Beach in Normandy to play their part ...

In Ontario last week on union business, your blogger was startled to discover the United Conservative Party had quoted his ...

Senator Kris Wells’ sharply worded warning about Alberta separatism last weekend certainly stirred up that angry corner of the Internet previously known as Twitter (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Do you ...

Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner continues to taunt the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees with an offer for its civil service bargaining unit that is lower than that achieved by other ...