Ted Byfield

Apparently Ted Byfield, crusading far-right journalist, and David Eggen, Alberta education minister, only agree on one thing: How to pronounce Eggen.

Despite winning an Alberta Senate election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper passed over Link Byfield for a Senate seat -- evidence of how far his views were from the mainstream.

If readers anticipate the same kind of commentary provided by Mark Lisac under Ric Dolphin, who has taken over his influential newsletter, they are likely in for a surprise.

Given the CRTC's recent history, we can't count on broadcast regulator not to agree to put the Tory back into regulatory.

Talk about tilting at windmills! Social conservative icon has exchanged the most hopeless cause in the federal jurisdiction for the most hopeless electoral crusade in Alberta.

Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Ted Byfield -- which of these muses inspired Danielle Smith to defend Calgary's bankrupt surgical clinic?