Alison Redford, who made history in 2011 when she became Alberta’s first female Premier, is celebrating her birthday today. Before entering provincial politics, she had served as an important advisor to Minister of Foreign Affairs Joe Clark. Later, she worked in the office of then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Redford held her province’s top political job until 2014. Happy birthday Ms. Redford.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.