Dave Hancock to be next Alberta premier
Alberta's Deputy Premier Dave Hancock will be interim premier once Alison Redford's resignation takes effect Sunday. The long-time Edmonton MLA will hold the province's top job until the Progressive...
View ArticleViewpoint: Alberta's 'political earthquake' shocks conservatives
By Duane Bratt Mount Royal University 6 May 2015 From the section US & Canada Rachel Notley's New Democratic Party have promised to invest more in health and education The polls ahead of the...
View ArticleAlberta Conservatives Pick Prentice as Premier-Designate
Alberta’s ruling Progressive Conservatives chose Jim Prentice, a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce vice chairman and former federal environment minister, to lead Canada’s third-largest provincial...
View ArticlePC party sweeps Alberta byelections
Alberta’s ruling Tories broke out their pre-Halloween witch sticks Monday, sweeping aside their opponents in four byelections. The party hopes the victories will also begin to end a hex of the...
View ArticleWas sexism a factor in the downfall of Alberta Premier Alison Redford?
Alberta Premier Alison Redford had barely walked out of legislature rotunda after announcing Wednesday she was stepping down when some observers began playing the gender card. Redford, whose...
View ArticlePolitical life will go on
“This is just going to make voters more cynical about politicians.” That was the basic message from a staunch Alberta Wildrose supporter who called me this week. At least that is the heavily scrubbed...
View ArticleWill Alberta make Notley Canada's most powerful New Democrat?
OTTAWA - On Tuesday, Albertans will vote in the 29th general election since the province’s entry into Confederation in 1905. And in all those elections, Albertans have changed their governing party...
View ArticleAlberta's chief electoral officer asked to probe robocalls
Alberta Premier Alison Redford's Progressive Conservative party is asking the chief electoral officer to investigate rule-breaking Wildrose robocalls to make sure they didn't affect last year's...
View ArticleIn praise of protest parties
There are two ways to look at this week’s dismantling of the Wildrose Party of Alberta. The first is understandable frustration and anger. Many voters aren’t happy. You can’t blame them either. Their...
View ArticleShock defeat for conservatives in 'safe' Alberta province
6 May 2015 From the section US & Canada NDP leader Rachel Notley told supporters: "I think we might have made a little bit of history tonight" A left-leaning party has won a...
View ArticleNew Alberta premier faces challenge winning back voters
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Jim Prentice, a former key Cabinet minister in the government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has firm control over the province of Alberta's governing...
View ArticleAlberta government shaken by defections as popularity fades
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Alberta's Progressive Conservative government, which has run the oil-rich Canadian province for more than four decades, suffered another defection on Monday in what was the...
View ArticleRumours flying of Wildrose merger with PCs, ex-member says
EDMONTON -- The Alberta legislature was abuzz with rumours of a big shakeup on the Opposition benches from a former Wildrose MLA, an anonymous blogger...
View ArticleElection talk heats up as Ontario legislature resumes sitting
View photo. Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath (CP) There's a bit of a buzz in the air at Queen's Park in Toronto. The legislature resumed sitting, on Tuesday, after a lengthy winter break with word...
View ArticleAlberta Tory Dynasty at Risk as Voters Seek Change
Alberta, home to Canada’s vast oil sands, is preparing for a political shake-up for the first time in a generation as voters head to the polls Tuesday with surveys showing the Progressive...
View ArticleThis isn't your father's Alberta
There are moments in history that are forever etched in our minds. The first walk on the moon. Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone. The Wright brothers proving that man can fly. Jackie...
View ArticleWynne and Marois approval ratings drop ahead of potential 2014 elections
View gallery. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will be hosting this year's Council of the Federation meeting It's widely believed that voters in Canada's two largest provinces will be heading to the...
View ArticleMaking sense of Wildrose defections
There are many strange things about Danielle Smith quitting her post as leader of the opposition in Alberta, defecting to the governing Progressive Conservatives, and effectively dissolving the...
View ArticleAlberta and Quebec trade places on fiscal policy
Two provinces tabled budgets last week and they happen to be the two provinces that most Canadians would think of as being opposites in every way. Alberta — the land of a low, single-rate tax, where...
View ArticleAlberta according to the Globe
Not a lot of Albertans read the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper, but those who did, back when Alison Redford became the leader of the Alberta PC Party, must have had a good chuckle. “Alberta steps...
View ArticleFlaherty, Redford quit at the right time
View photo. Jim Flaherty and Prime Minister Stephen Harper enter the House of Commons on budget day 2014 Sports' fans often talk about athletes who know when it's time to retire versus those who hang...
View ArticleIt’s time for Stephen Harper to march in a gay pride parade
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne ahead of Toronto pride parade 2013 Alberta's Alison Redford made history, on Sunday, becoming that province's first premier ever to...
View ArticleWill Ontarians and Quebecers be heading to the polls this year?
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois (CP file photo) Rumours abound that residents of Canada's two most populous provinces could be headed to the polls before year end. While the rumours are just speculation...
View ArticleGive Wildrose credit for Alberta PC success
Alberta’s Premier Jim Prentice certainly deserves kudos for last week’s four byelection victories. Since becoming premier in September he has been humble and responsive. He moved quickly to prune the...
View ArticleAre the Alberta Tories’ problems due to Premier Redford, or do they go deeper?
The apparent cracks within Alberta's long-ruling Progressive Conservative party over Premier Alison Redford's leadership seem to be widening. The next few weeks could determine whether Redford, who...
View ArticleAlberta, throw PC bums out
It should come as no surprise that the Alberta Progressive Conservatives are on the verge of being kicked out of office. Much like the federal Liberals by 2006, the Alberta Tories are suffering from...
View ArticleCompetence wins day in Alberta byelections
Despite their reputation as small-c conservatives, many Albertans are really more fans of small-c competence in government. That explains the resurgence of the governing Tories in a string of four...
View ArticleSmith's exit a loss for Alberta
So Danielle Smith, the former leader of the Wildrose Party and the former leader of Alberta’s official opposition, made a colossal miscalculation in December when she decided to quit her party to join...
View ArticleFormer Wildrose MLA Joe Anglin says party to vote on crossing the floor to...
The Legislature was abuzz with rumours of a big shake up on the opposition benches from a former Wildrose MLA, an anonymous blogger and party insiders. Former Wildrose MLA turned Independent Joe Anglin...
View ArticleAlberta Premier-Designate Prentice Vows Party Rebuild
Jim Prentice, Alberta’s premier-designate and new leader of the Progressive Conservatives, is vowing to restore public confidence in a party hit by scandals that threaten to end its four decades of...
View ArticlePauline Marois up, Kathleen Wynne down in latest ‘popular premier’ poll
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois (CP file photo) Which premier had the best summer? On Monday, Angus Reid released its quarterly 'popular premier' . There's no surprise at the top of the list:...
View ArticleIs Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi interested in replacing Alison Redford?
View photo. Alberta Premier Alison Redford announces her resignation in Edmonton, Alberta on Wednesday March 19, 2014 Alison Redford pulled the plug on her political career, Wednesday, announcing that...
View ArticleIs Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s job on the line?
View photo. Alison Redford It wasn't too long ago that Alberta Premier Alison Redford earned the confidence of the party faithful. At a Progressive Conservative party convention last November, she got...
View ArticleNine Wildrose MLAs join Alberta Tories
EDMONTON ─ It's a united right. Premier Jim Prentice and Danielle Smith announced the unification of Alberta's conservatives as nine members of the Wildrose caucus were welcomed into the Progressive...
View ArticleNine Wildrose MLAs join Alberta Tories, including Smith, Anderson
It's a united right. Premier Jim Prentice and Danielle Smith announced the unification of Alberta's conservatives as nine members of the Wildrose caucus were welcomed into the Progressive Conservative...
View ArticleWildrose Party executive calls planned defection of MLAs to Progressive...
The Wildrose Party isn’t finished, says one of their executives who called an apparent imminent mass defection to the Tories “a betrayal.” Jeff Callaway said the party will fight on and choose an...
View ArticleAlberta’s Wildrose to Progressive Conservatives: “Come on Over”
Alberata's Wildrose Party has launched an interesting new campaign asking Progressive Conservatives to leave their party and to 'come on over.' On Saturday, the province's right-leaning official...
View ArticleFormer Alberta Wildrose Party leader apologizes for crossing floor
Former Wildrose party boss Danielle Smith has released a public apology for not discussing her plans to cross the floor in the Alberta legislature with voters. Smith and eight of her colleagues joined...
View ArticleAlberta PCs fire back following Wildrose plea to return Katz donation
Alberta PC president Jim McCormick has fired back after Wildrose opposition leader Danielle Smith called the Elections Alberta’s ruling on a substantial donation made by the Katz Group of Companies...
View ArticleUphill battle for PC parties
They’re arguably the two most important political contests in Canada right now. The Progressive Conservative parties in both Ontario and Alberta are on the hunt for a new leader. Why so integral?...
View ArticleWill Jim Prentice clean up Alberta PCs?
Very suddenly Alberta, with the country’s second most important economy, is threatening to break from, reform or at least give a head transplant to the governing Progressive Conservative Party. Like it...
View ArticleAlberta dumped Redford, why is Ontario stuck with Wynne?
Article Tweet I’m not shocked that Alberta Premier Alison Redford is resigning, but I am shocked she moved so quickly. I’m also shocked that here in Ontario we still have Premier Kathleen Wynne. By any...
View ArticleAlberta's Wildrose caucus reportedly meeting to discuss merger with...
Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith is meeting with her caucus to discuss uniting with Premier Jim Prentice's Progressive Conservatives, says former Wildrose member of the legislature Joe Anglin. >...
View ArticleWill Alberta vote be a 'turning point'?
“This is a turning point and Albertans deserve to choose.” With those words Tuesday, Premier Jim Prentice launched the province on its 29th general election campaign just three years since the last one...
View ArticleRedford addresses PC convention ahead of leadership review
In a speech that preceded a vote on her leadership, Premier Alison Redford told delegates at the Progressive Conservative convention in Red Deer on Friday that she is looking ahead to the next...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Energy industry keeps wary eye on Alberta political turmoil
(Recasts with comment from energy executives, political analyst) By Nia Williams and Scott Haggett CALGARY, Alberta, March 20 (Reuters) - Alberta's powerful oil and gas industry is keeping a close...
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