Alberta politics

All three Alberta PC leadership candidates displayed a fierce Alberta independantiste spirit Saturday, as they contemplated with horror the changes to Canada's TFW Program.

The Harper Government says it's going bring in a "more comprehensive and rigorous" process to ensure its TFW Program operates properly. Seriously?

Bad ideas from the past keep haunting Alberta's hapless PCs until it seems unlikely even leadership frontrunner Jim Prentice, ostensible solution to all the party's problems, can make them go away.

Sometime during last year’s dramatic rescue in High River, an uplifting story of Canadians helping Canadians was turned into a bizarre tale of suspicion, paranoia and hatred for the police.

The conditions that made Red-Blue voting axiomatic in Canada no longer exist. This is not good news for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Calgary-based Cordilleran Petro-elite.

With a single injudicious appearance, Tory leadership candidate Ric McIver destroyed two years of concerted efforts by PC strategists to brand the Wildrose Party as a bunch of homophobic loons.

The instant she makes it official today, Rachel Notley will be the frontrunner in the race to replace Brian Mason as leader of Alberta's New Democratic Party.

All the New Democrats really had to do to have a chance to win the government of Ontario was act like New Democrats.

Calling Tory frontrunner Jim Prentice "Diamond Jim" and painting him as Alison Redford in pants is not going to be enough to turn Alberta voters away from old habits that are bound to die hard.