What uncertainty? Investors shrug off Redford’s exit as energy stocks move up
How are oilpatch investors reacting to Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s abrupt resignation? With a shrug, it seems. Most energy stocks are heading higher in early afternoon trading Friday, after...
View ArticleA Premier without a seat? If Jim Prentice wins, what’s next?
Former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice is the front-runner in the Progressive Conservative leadership race. If Jim Prentice, the putative front-runner, does win the Progressive Conservative...
View ArticleAn unelected premier – an unelected cabinet?: Jim Prentice and the...
The years was 1941, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had a problem. Canada was at war, and King needed a strong, unified wartime cabinet to lead a strong, unified country through a time...
View ArticleElegy for a Good Soldier: Dave Hancock falls on his sword with grace
Dave Hancock had charm and a self-deprecating sense of humour. But all his loyalty couldn’t wash await the taint of premiers past. He was ever the good soldier. Party loyalist to the bitter-sweet end,...
View ArticleThe day an angry gunman attacked Alberta legislature: 26 years later, the...
His name was Robert Crawford. And on the morning of October 14, 1988, almost exactly 26 years ago, he terrified this city by going on a shooting rampage at the Alberta Legislature. Crawford, then 32,...
View ArticleWhich Great Alberta Suffragette Are You?
Henrietta Muir Edwards. Roberta MacAdams. Nellie McClung. Louise McKinney. Emily Murphy. Irene Parlby. They were six remarkable women who made history. They were smart. They were courageous. And they...
View ArticleSchooled: Bill 10 and a brief history of minority rights
If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society. Pope Francis The year 1885 was a...
View ArticleFormer Alberta premier Don Getty remembered as a leader in politics, sports...
Don Getty, Alberta’s 11th premier who is remembered as a “foundational leader,” an Edmonton football legend and the architect of a provincial holiday dedicated to the importance of families, has died....
View ArticleDavid Hughes and Gordon Laxer: Can the Liberal government meet all of...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with premiers in Vancouver on Thursday to work on Canada’s new climate plan. The challenges are great. Trudeau and Catherine McKenna, the federal minister of...
View ArticleAlberta deserves credit for new U.S.-Canada methane deal, Notley says
Premier Rachel Notley says her government deserves much of the credit for a new U.S.-Canada deal to jointly reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. “I have to say, I don’t think I’m...
View ArticleAlexander First Nation artist 'ecstatic' Trudeau gifted one of his sculptures...
A soapstone sculpture of an eagle and a human entranced in meditation was presented Thursday to U.S. President Barack Obama by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his first official visit to...
View ArticlePremier Notley rejects Leap Manifesto as naive and tone deaf
Alberta’s NDP premier has come out swinging against the federal party’s plans to consider the Leap Manifesto. Rachel Notley calls the energy parts of the manifesto thoughtless, naive and tone deaf. But...
View ArticleEditorial: NDP make leap into the unknown
If Albertans who aren’t card-carrying New Democrats (or western Canadians as a whole) thought they could ignore the Leap Manifesto that jumped into the spotlight during the federal NDP’s Edmonton...
View ArticlePoliticians past and present reflect on the 100th anniversary of Alberta...
It has been 100 years since most Alberta women won the right to vote in a provincial election. But female politicians say there is still a long way to go to have women’s perspectives and voices fairly...
View ArticleNational NDP support for Alberta Premier Rachel Notley surprises pollsters
A new poll shows NDP voters across the country widely back Premier Rachel Notley despite her rejection of the controversial Leap Manifesto at the party’s federal convention last weekend in Edmonton....
View ArticleJason Madden: Daniels ruling delivers simple answers with significant...
The Supreme Court of Canada released its long-awaited judgment in Daniels v. Canada on April 14. The case was started by now deceased Métis leader Harry Daniels in 1999. Despite the case’s enormous...
View ArticleOne year in power: The Alberta NDP's steep learning curve
For both sides of Alberta’s political divide, May 5, 2015, was a jaw-dropping moment. As the province’s 29th general election wound up and results began trickling in, it became apparent that the polls,...
View ArticleSaturday's letters: Citadel Theatre put spotlight on Komagata Maru 40 years ago
Playwright Sharon Pollock’s “The Komagata Maru Incident” was directed by James DeFelice at a newly opened Citadel Theatre in its 1976-77 season. All of us who saw the production were moved by this...
View ArticleOpinion: Conservatives need Ambrose in the contest for party leader, even if...
Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose did something earlier this month that her predecessor failed to do after a decade in power: display genuine emotion. Fighting back tears as she discussed the...
View ArticleOnt. Premier Kathleen Wynne accepts apology from Alberta Wildrose party
WINNIPEG — Kathleen Wynne wonders whether a man would have faced the same kind of vicious attack that was aimed at her by a member of Alberta’s Wildrose party. The Ontario premier says she accepts the...
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