David Climenhaga

Just when you thought things couldn't get any goofier, it looks like Alberta's United Conservative Government is about to succumb to a long-standing lobby by financially hard-pressed game farmers to allow trophy hunters to shoot elk on “harvest preserves,” which amounts to shooting them in a barrel, writes Professional Biologist and author Lorne Fitch, an occasional contributor to this blog. This is unethical, potentially dangerous, and bound to tarnish the image of responsible hunters, he warns. Real hunters should be appalled, and need to speak up to stop this terrible idea, he argues. DJC

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gave her annual tritely titled “State of the Province” speech yesterday to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, complaining about Ottawa but painting a rosy picture of things here in Wild Rose Country under her guiding hand.

Now that Alberta's premier has introduced what is widely acknowledged to be the harshest anti-transgender legislation in Canada, rivalling that in some of the more benighted corners of the Republic to our south, we all need to pause and reflect on that question.

Of course they're delighted with the premier's performance – for the most part, she's delivering precisely the policies they demand

Alberta's ‘pissed' premier, ecstatic on Saturday night, is now apparently fit to blow a gasket! Remember, here in Alberta, if the oilpatch ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Remember, here in Alberta, if the oilpatch ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Whoever forms the next Canadian government, no matter how sympathetic they may be right now to next January’s MAGA Restoration south of the Medicine Line, the next four years at least are bound to be interesting ones for Canada. Interesting, that is, in the sense of that famous folk curse. This also goes for provincial […]

With its surprise decision to cashier the entire board and the top executive of the supposedly independent Alberta Investment Management Corp., we see once again that the United Conservative Party Government is determined to control everything, everywhere, all at once.

Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner wants us to believe he sacked the CEO and entire board of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. last Thursday because, as his news release put it, “the corporation has seen significant increases in operating costs, management fees and staffing without a corresponding increase to return on investment.” After reciting a […]

BNN Bloomberg is a reasonably sober business news organization, so when it reports as it did yesterday that Alberta's United Conservative Party Government wants to make Stephen Harper chair of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. board, you have to take it seriously.