Oneil Carlier

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.

It's time for the NDP to get over their rude welcome to governing and get back to implementing the progressive agenda they were elected to enact.

Saturday's conservative anti-carbon-tax rally got seriously off message -- and the new message it conveyed will be hard for the Wildrose, PC and Conservative parties to shake.

The examination of Alberta's Agriculture Financial Services Corporation was spurred by an anonymous tip, the government says.

If you think voting rights are just theoretical, you haven't been reading your history, my friends.

Now that the NDP has given way on the points farmers say matter most, if protests continue it will be fair for those of us who don't have a dog in the fight to wonder if some other agenda is at play.

If the Opposition opposes Alberta's farm safety legislation with the lame old Tory excuses, they will be revealed as the same old Tory bag carriers for narrow special interests.

Near the end of her remarks, Ms. Notley observed: "My friends, it is springtime in Alberta and a fresh wind is blowing." That assessment seems about right!