Alberta Diary: Great Plains Politics 101: Why everything new in Alberta’s...
Perfesser Dave with Gene Zwozdesky, a.k.a. Mr. Speaker, the Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, with that rara avis, a recent Alberta Throne Speech. But not the one for March 5, 2013. Quick quiz: Why...
View ArticleCalgary Grit: You Be The Finance Minister
If Doug Horner can’t get Alberta’s finances under control, he can always look forward to a long career as a Ricky Gervais impersonator. Alberta is facing a bit of a budget crisis, with a deficit...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: ‘Leading thinkers’ to set Alberta’s new economic course...
Premier Alison Redford eyeballs an uninvited visitor to the province’s economic summit. Without the password, you’re not getting in. Below, Premier Redford and Deputy Premier Tom Lukaszuk present their...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Is Premier Alison Redford’s bitter fight with the docs about...
Who’s in change here? Progressive Conservative MLAs get ready to supervise the work of an Alberta Health Services medical team while Alberta voters look on. Health officials, physicians and electors...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Redford to docs: There’s no raise, and you’re not getting it!
The Alberta Progressive Conservative position on negotiations with the doctors explained. Yes, we’re just as confused as you are. Below: AMA President Michael Giuffre. Premier Alison Redford. Every...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Who leaked Alberta’s budget details? And who plugged the leak?
Some of the members of Alberta’s Treasury Board are pictured above. While not exactly as illustrated, they are all suspects in the leakage of budget details, in the office, with an email to the Calgary...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Edmonton’s homeless shelters home to body lice,...
Alberta’s perpetually mismanaged boom-and-bust economy makes homelessness worse, as hopeful immigrants flock here in hopes of a better life, and find nowhere to live. At least this guy has warm boots....
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Former Finance Ministers Morton, Liepert and...
TweetFree from the tight leash of party discipline, three former Finance Ministers are giving plenty of advice to Premier Alison Redford and Finance Minister Doug Horner. Ted Morton, the former...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: A Tale of Two Provinces: B.C. NDP and Wild Rosehip Tea Party...
Razzle-dazzle, sis-boom-bah, balanced budgets, rah-rah-rah! Danielle Smith and the Wild Rosehip Tea Party yell squad cheers for Alison Redford’s Tory team’s worst plays on the field. The actual Alberta...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Education minister’s bluff called by apoplectic...
The trading pit: Is this what Alberta Education Minister Jeff Johnson sees when he thinks of the Alberta Teachers Association? Actual Alberta schoolteachers may not be exactly as illustrated. Then...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: What to expect in the spring sitting? Dirt,...
TweetAfter a three-month break, Members of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly will gather today in Edmonton to start the spring sitting. The commencement of this year’s first sitting will be unusual in...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Alberta Budget 2013 a confusing start to the...
TweetRumours swirled through the halls of the Legislative for weeks. Whispers and warnings of cuts and rollbacks not seen since Ralph Klein and Jim Dinning unleashed a scorched earth policy on the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Close enough for government work: Alberta Tories manage to...
Finance Minister Doug Horner preps Albertans for yesterday’s budget. Actual Alberta finance ministers may not appear exactly as illustrated – but that’s the trick, isn’t it? Below: The real Doug...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Funding Edmonton’s Downtown Arena, the...
TweetThe strange comedy of errors that has become Edmonton’s Downtown Arena project continued this week as City Council scrambled to fill a $100 million gap in a funding plan they approved months ago....
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Can Stephen Mandel save Alberta’s Tories...
TweetFacing internal strife after a rough spring of budget cuts and deflating bitumen bubbles, Premier Alison Redford is desperately searching for political wins that will win-over Albertans in advance...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Tories versus Wildrose: Year One in...
TweetOn April 23, 2012, Alberta’s most hotly contested election in decades culminated with the re-election of the twelfth consecutive Progressive Conservative majority government since 1971. Despite...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Bad planning: Edmonton Arena funding and...
TweetWhile too much media attention was focused this week on the fate of a statue of a hockey player who left Edmonton twenty-five years ago for sunny southern California (and piles of money), City...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Ironies abound in Alberta’s agitated politics as Alison...
How Albertans should see Progressive Conservative and Wildrose policies and procedures. Below: The clever Wildrose Facebook attack on PC Premier Alison Redford’s faintly unsavoury taxpayer-funded mail...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Redford Tories rack up frequent flyer miles,...
TweetThe Government of Alberta re-announced plans last week to open new trade offices in Chicago and Singapore, and yet to be announced locations in India, Brazil, and California. The Alberta...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Pipelines before persons with developmental...
TweetFresh from a surprise election win, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark‘s government formally announced its opposition this week to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline that would carry...
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