David Climenhaga

It's not as if we weren't warned about the dangers of ‘free trade' with the United States! At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where's John A.

On its face, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's screwball scheme to create a provincial border patrol force intended to prevent Canadian citizens from crossing the U.S. border into Montana is blatantly unconstitutional.

Now that the fall session of the Alberta Legislature is over and the United Conservative Party is celebrating its success pushing through major parts of its radical agenda, a number of new laws continue to arouse controversy. As a result, Bill 35, the All Season Resorts Act, hasn't really received the careful attention it deserves. Professional Biologist Lorne Fitch, a regular contributor of guest posts to this blog, takes a look at some of the serious flaws with this troubling law, which he argues is nothing more than a sneaky way to privatize our province's cherished public lands without considering the impact on the environment, recreational quality, or other tourist businesses already nearby. DJC

Busted by the Alberta local of the electrical workers' union and a couple of federal NDP Members of Parliament, the United Conservative Party Government has put its plan to recruit new temporary workers by poaching temporary workers from Dubai on ice.

Since Naheed Nenshi replaced Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP last June, the Opposition party appears to have gone from all tactics and no strategy to all strategy and no tactics.

Rachel Notley, Alberta's first NDP premier and the woman who in 2015 broke the Progressive Conservative party's seemingly unshakable grip on power in this province, has announced her full departure from politics.

Andrew Ernest Joseph Thompson , who ascended to the Great Legislature in the Sky in 2016, was the low-profile Canadian Senator who spent too much of his time in the lovely Mexican city of Guadalajara.

The Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa surely isn’t the only Canadian venue with more than a whiff of panic in the air these days. Consider the likely conversation in Premier Danielle Smith’s office in the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. According to Environment Canada, periods of snow are forecast in Ottawa today with more flurries tonight. […]

In a refreshing sign of intelligent life on the Great Plains of Alberta, voters in the Lethbridge-West by-election sent New Democrat Rob Miyashiro to the provincial Legislature in Edmonton yesterday.

Let's cut right to the chase: What the analysis made public yesterday by the Chief Actuary of Canada shows is that if Alberta were to split from the Canada Pension Plan it would only be entitled to 20 to 25 per cent of the CPP investment fund, or about $120 billion to $150 billion.