Susan Wright

The big question now has to be whether, come the next Alberta general election, the reconstituted PC-dominated Alberta Party is likely to take more votes from the NDP or the UCP?

In a bombshell move, Rachel Notley's NDP government yesterday cancelled a $3-billion, 15-year contract with a private foreign multinational to take over medical lab testing in Edmonton.

Once prominent Wildrose MLA vows to tell it like it is and expose "cult-like practice" of political parties in new blog.

NDP volunteers are energized and will make up in shoe leather what they lack in corporate cash. Still, it's a Goliath they're taking on, without so much as a slingshot.

Fitting as her comeuppance may have been, I confess to a certain sympathy with former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith's instinctive reaction to her nomination loss on the weekend.

Alberta Premier Jim Prentice's bad moment with the mirror last week came about because he was trying to avoid another topic: Alberta's need for fairer and more sensible taxes.

Little of the saga of how Alberta Health Services chose an Australian company to build and run a privatized super-lab in Edmonton, including the latest development, makes much sense.

The goal of the tight campaign window is obviously to help Premier Jim Prentice's campaign by keeping the opposition parties off balance as long as possible.