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 ...

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

In a classic Friday afternoon bad-news dump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government announced a scheme to make seniors pay “the full costs” for restricted supplies of ...

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

Charles III, King of Canada, as seen in his official Canadian portrait (Photo: Millie Pilkington, 2024). Say what you will about the King’s reading of the Throne Speech in the Senate chamber in Ottawa ...

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney before a still-veiled statue of Winston Churchill in Calgary in June 2024 – well, it wasn’t a statue of John A. Macdonald, but it’ll do to illustrate this piece ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney in the House of Commons (Screenshot of Question Period video). NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – The bosses of 38 Canadian oil and gas corporations signed a letter of congratulations to ...

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