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Photo: Norsk Teknisk Museum, Wikimedia Commons.
While Alberta awaits the Green Apocalypse, Norwegian version of Heritage Fund hits US$1 trillion
David J. Climenhaga | Albertans long ago "decided that a drunken, blow-out dance party today was better than a string of candle-lit dinner parties down the road."
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Brian Jean and Jason Kenney. Image: Facebook/Wildrose Party St.Albert
Unity voting starts today and UCP candidates are already at the clubhouse turn
David J. Climenhaga | With voting starting this week, the campaign to unite the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties into a single entity is inevitably being described as entering the final stretch.
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Alberta Agriculture Minister Oniel Carlier (front left) and Alberta Beef Producers Chair Bob Lowe (front right). GoA Photo
NDP plan to change funding model for agricultural commissions is unlikely to much help farmers or the government
David J. Climenhaga | Continuing to make farmers fund agricultural check-off organizations, some of which function almost as auxiliaries of the Wildrose Opposition, is not going to help the Alberta NDP.
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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall
Does Saskatchewan's mean-spirited budget mean Brad Wall is eyeing the exit?
David J. Climenhaga | What will those Alberta politicians who insist sales-tax-raising Brad Wall of Saskatchewan is Western Canada’s “real leader” say now?
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At right, Calgary-Fish Creek PC MLA Richard Gotfried (from his Facebook page).
Cue the balalaikas! Tory MLA hears the Red Army tramping across the Steppes of Central Alberta
David J. Climenhaga | There is part of a long tradition in Alberta politics of dubious Russian political metaphors. PC MLA Richard Gotfried is the latest politician to yield to this temptation.
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Party crasher Jason Kenney (David Climenhaga photo)
Shoreline, True Grit, photo-bombing, certainty and the Deity: Random observations from Alberta's Throne Speech
David J. Climenhaga | When it comes to its own core constituencies, Alberta's NDP government continues to be too cautious – undoubtedly a hangover from the rough ride it got over Bill 6.
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Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell reads the 2016 Throne Speech (GoA photo)
Alberta's NDP tends not to make a game of thrones, so tomorrow's speech may actually give us useful information!
David J. Climenhaga | Unlike the two NDP throne speeches, those of the Progressive Conservatives in recent years were less likely to deliver on their key promises.
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Dave Hancock Portrait
Portrait unveiling stands in for the fond official farewell former premier Dave Hancock never had from his PCs
David J. Climenhaga | When by-then-premier Jim Prentice appointed a new cabinet in the fall of 2014, Dave Hancock was out, with barely a word of thanks.
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Dave Hancock
Former Alberta premier Dave Hancock to be the subject of a hanging Monday afternoon at the Legislature
David J. Climenhaga | If we ask why we are spending public money on portraits of Alberta premiers (and Legislative Speakers, too, it must be added) we are asking the wrong question.
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Brad Wall
'Real leader' Brad Wall's government feeds the fluctuations of a boom-bust economy as Alberta stays the course
David J. Climenhaga | When it comes to fiscal planning in conservative Western Canadian provinces, all we have to fall back on is the notion the lord giveth and the lord taketh away. Repeatedly.
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John Ashton
Five things you need to know about Alberta's latest Electoral Boundaries Commission
John Ashton | A useful primer on the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission by former NDP Caucus director John Ashton.
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Image: Wikimedia Commons/DanielPaquet
Saskatchewan adopts Alberta's single health region model, despised by Brad Wall supporters
David J. Climenhaga | Will the heads of Alberta's ultra-conservatives explode now that Brad Wall has done what they've been complaining about for nearly a decade? Or will they just pretend it didn't happen?