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There’s a narrative in Alberta that claims if we just had a different federal government, a Conservative government, things would be so much better for the province and the oil and gas industry. It’s a defining narrative that has gripped a lot of people who simply don’t want to give it up. But is it true? Do the Liberals in...
Pierre Poilievre has retreated to a safe Alberta seat after losing his Ottawa one to the Liberals. Of course, he will win by a comfortable majority. But in the meantime he’ll have to figure out what to do about the ticking time bomb he’s been handed by the Alberta premier. The day after the election and before Conservative party leader...
There is no danger that Alberta won’t return plenty of Conservative MPs to the House of Commons at the end of April. It’s practically a sacrosanct duty in a federal election to elect as many Conservatives as possible. So why is Premier Danielle Smith talking as if the Conservatives are going to lose? Why isn’t she boosting their chances across...
So much for Team Canada. Mark Carney may want all the premiers united behind him, but Alberta’s Danielle Smith has other ideas: she wants to use the election as her bargaining chip to get what she wants. Her list of demands is long and she’s giving the federal government, whoever may be elected, six months to appease her or she...
Early last week Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was getting kudos from her base for what they saw as a successful foray to Mar-a-Lago to beg for a tariff exemption; which she almost got — 10 per cent on oil instead of the 25 per cent for everything else. It was time to do some crowing while preparing for the next...
Danielle Smith has distinguished herself by going it alone. No Team Canada for her. She has opted out of the premiers club to pursue her own agenda — getting a tariff exemption for Alberta’s oil imports to the U.S. But is she really going it alone? Not at all. She is accompanied by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)...
Ever hopeful, Danielle Smith met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend to try and persuade him not to impose tariffs on the huge amount of oil the U.S imports from Canada. Accompanying her were Canadian businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary and Jordan Peterson, of all people. O’Leary has already said he is interested in an “economic union” and...
President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff tirade sent Canadian politicians scrambling for a response. Within days Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked to him by phone, held a virtual meeting with premiers and then unexpectedly flew to Florida to have dinner with Trump and several of his cronies. The man isn’t even officially president yet but he is appointing cabinet members and shooting...
It was just six months ago that Premier Danielle Smith was bragging about Alberta’s population growth and cheerfully predicting that we would hit 10 million people by 2050. Remember “Alberta is Calling?” She even named the city of Red Deer — current population 160,000 — and said she could see it mushrooming to a million. “Because if you have that...
Last week, Alberta environment minister Rebecca Schulz took to Rebel Media to brag about the province’s forward-looking policy on renewable energy. All those solar panels and wind turbines will need to be recycled in 25 years or so, she said, so we are going to charge a fee up front to make sure they are disposed of without filling up...
Canada is broken. We’ve heard that a lot from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre followed by a list of things that are broken: the carbon tax, grocery prices, housing, addiction treatment programs etc., etc. You’d think that we were a failed state.
Naheed Nenshi, the new leader of the Alberta NDP, knows he has his hands full if he wants to take on a provincial government that is coming perilously close to declaring independence. The former mayor of Calgary, who won the leadership with an astounding 86 per cent of the vote, is ready for the fight. He intends to take down...
More people are moving to Alberta than ever before. “Toronto is too big and daunting, Vancouver too expensive so they come here,” Saima Jamal, co-founder of Calgary Immigrants Support Society told CTV recently. Over the past year, 184,000 people arrived in Calgary — more than double the previous record and leaving Alberta with the highest […]