Mike Allen

Increasingly beleaguered by the news and the polls, the Jim Prentice PCs have begun taking aim at any old thing that can be used to wedge a vote or two away from an opposition candidate.

Since we keep complaining about how the Tories never get us off the roller coaster of volatile energy prices, one has to wonder if some of us actually enjoy the ride.

Only the Alberta NDP has managed a leadership transition since the 2012 provincial general election without leaving blood on the floor.

What's Alberta's new PC leader to do? He can hardly throw the old crowd under the bus at the same time as he's putting some of them back in the cabinet driver's seat.

Call a public inquiry. Call it now! Just call it, already!

When the Alberta PCs decided to pull "Wild Rose Country" off the province's licence plates, for some reason Welcome to Bull Trout Country seems not to have made the grade.

A Progressive Conservative Alberta MLA arrested a year ago in a prostitution sting in the United States has been welcomed back into the government caucus.

Electoral math is calculus, not merely arithmetic.

What a control freak like Stephen Harper would make of a potential loose canon like Guy Boots in Fort Mac -- the place nearest the PM's heart and to his schemes for Canada -- is food for thought!