Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean Political capital is the leeway Parties or Party leaders get from voters when they do something their supporters might not agree with. If they’ve done a good job, overall, voters forgive some transgressions. Federally, we saw it when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bought a pipeline. It […]
The news came down earlier this week that Calgary Pride was not going to allow any political Party to march in the Parade this September. Due to some internal issues, Edmonton cancelled their Pride Parade this year. The resulting commentary suggests something is up in Alberta. Calgary’s first […]
We discuss the re-re-approval of the TMX Pipeline and who wins and who loses with a look at the outcome from the perspective of environmentalists, the BC NDP, Prime Minister Trudeau, Alberta, Indigenous objectors, and the BC Green Party. Please don’t forget to share and comment on this […]
28 days. That’s how long the election campaign is in Alberta and we will go to the polls on April 16, 2019. Rachel Notley gave a speech in Calgary on Tuesday morning and Jason Kenney headed to Leduc to give his speech in the early afternoon. After scandalous […]
It was a classic love story; the search for the soul mate played out by Alberta seeking the Trans Mountain Expansion approval. And then, against all odds, or so the story goes, a match was made. At the end of February, the National Energy Board (NEB) approved Trans […]
The NDP has officially adopted the UCP’s approach to balancing the budget; painful cuts. Yesterday’s 3rd Quarter update by Finance Minister Joe Ceci was likely his last, but also the document upon which the NDP government (unless they extend the election to 2020, as I’ve suggested) will run its […]
The NDP government needs to make rapid and meaningful changes to their approach to oil curtailment and managing the oil price differential, or they run the risk of doing further damage to our energy sector. I was part of the Alberta Party team that first called for curtailment […]
The UCP has been vociferously advocating for the Alberta NDP (or, the Rachel Notley Party, as they’re now known in Alberta) to drop the writ as soon as possible. Partly driven by the hubris of a self-ordained destiny/entitlement to lead, and partly driven by the knowledge that the […]
Alberta’s governing NDP is currently facing a very public firestorm over a backbench MLA who has refused to sit in the Legislature due to what she calls a bullying and toxic culture within the governing party. On Monday afternoon, Calgary East MLA Robyn Luff sent an email to […]
