Alberta politics

Alberta's PCs pulled the plug yesterday on a Legislative session that was a nightmare for their party. They are now hunkered down in their ridings awaiting a new Moses to lead them out of wilderness.

A substantial WBC give-back will mean many companies and other employers will receive what some might call a substantial hidden subsidy.

The PC Government of Alberta Premier Dave Hancock is desperately trying to press the reset button on two years of horrible relations with public sector unions under Alison Redford.

Former Alberta Premier Alison Redford's ill-conceived anti-union project is in shambles, with an agreement to send two bills attacking public sector pensions to a legislative committee.

Welcome to a Redford-free future, where all the problems were caused by someone named … Alison Redford.

I don't think Jim Prentice will turn out to be the superstar the Tories think he is, or that he's anything like the Wildrose Party's worst nightmare.

Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason announced his retirement plans yesterday. When he goes, taking his famous one-liners with him, the silence around here will be deafening.

Yesterday's tentative agreement between 22,000 AUPE civil servants and the province paves the way for a relatively trouble-free coronation for banking executive Jim Prentice.

In future, it may behoove Conservative politicians who stand foursquare for wide-open gun ownership to keep their own counsel about this opinion, lest they suffer a similar fate to Rob Anders.