Alberta separatists warn Danielle Smith — don't campaign against us
'If she doesn't come over to our side, well, there's going to be a problem,' says Mitch Sylvestre, leading the charge on Alberta independence and warning Premier Danielle Smith
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Mark Carney Liberal sleaze and Premier Doug Ford's big mouth
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Mark Carney is now on a collision course with Danielle Smith
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Carney says he's for Alberta — the crap detector alarm goes off
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Danielle Smith leaves the door open for a vote on Alberta leaving Canada
The idea of Alberta leaving Canada is increasingly not being written off as raving lunacy
Smith sees a real danger Mark Carney could be worse than Trudeau
Well, no doubt about it. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is on the political warpath, with the federal election campaign expected to kick off Sunday. The premier already has a lot of demands for the new prime minister after the dust settles, either the Liberal Mark Carney or the Conservative Pierre Poilievre.
Carney and Poilievre — an ugly match-up in the brawl for it all
This is going to be a brawl. This is going to be a brutal battle. It will get ugly. There is too much at stake and too much bad blood for it to be anything but a political street fight.
Angry Canadians lose their minds, Liberals paint Poilievre as Trump
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Albertans are getting a tax cut in this week's provincial budget
We’re getting it. We’re finally getting it. Getting some of our hard-earned cash back, putting some of our dough back in our pockets. This Thursday, the UCP government led by Premier Danielle Smith will give Albertans the income tax cut they promised in their kickoff to the last election campaign two years back, vowing to make life a little more...
Premier Smith to Mark Carney — Alberta won't be kicked around anymore
People I run into here in Alberta are thinking about it and talking about it. Some in quiet voices, others more openly. Few want to contemplate the possibility for very long. It is that bad. Their tone of voice is one of disbelief, usually followed by a prediction. If it happens, many Albertans will blow a gasket.
What's up Canada? Liberals could win the election, are you nuts?
Poll shows Mark Carney-led Liberals are neck-and-neck with Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives. Other polls show Liberals gaining. Now Canada is really broken
Danielle Smith insists she's not guilty of anything, but will that be enough?
'As premier, I was not involved in any wrongdoing,' says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, responding to allegations of political interference in the health care system
Big allegations — Danielle Smith, come out, come out wherever you are
We have questions. We have no answers. It is said we will hear from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Next Saturday. On her radio show. That’s Feb. 15. This column is being written Feb.7.
Trudeau no hero — Danielle Smith's diplomacy helped win the day on tariffs
Canadians get 30 more days without tariffs from President Trump because people like Premier Danielle Smith and not Justin Trudeau won the day
Danielle Smith pushes back, warns eastern Canada as Trump tariffs loom
'I think Eastern Canada has to be very, very careful what they wish for,' says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, on using oil as a weapon in a trade war with Trump
Why Danielle Smith's Alberta isn't buying Trudeau's Team Canada
Albertans aren’t traitors. We’re just pissed off. It confirms what people in Alberta have been saying for way too long.
Trump's tariff U-turn ruined Danielle Smith's day — and ours
Just when you think President Donald Trump is going one way, he’s going another.
Danielle Smith stands firm, slams Trudeau as Trump takes power
'When I'm defending Alberta, I will never back down,' says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Smith vows she will never sell out Albertans to a Trudeau tax on oil
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Danielle Smith is no traitor and neither are Albertans
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sure stirred up the hornet’s nest and upset the apple cart.
Danielle Smith tells Team Canada to pound sand, Alberta has its Iron Lady
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith draws a line in the sand, won't join Team Canada and sell out the province's oilpatch.
For Smith, Canada will see real ugly if Alberta oil is ammo against Trump
You want to crank up talk of Alberta splitting from Canada, folks looking at all the options beyond staying put and playing the patsy.
Here's what went down — Trump and Premier Smith at Mar-a-Lago
You’ve got to admit, it is bigger news than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau going down to Florida.
Poilievre says Canada is in 'a very dangerous place' with Trudeau
Conservative party Leader Pierre Poilievre is not a man known to pull his punches. So when it comes to the latest obscenity from the theatre of the absurd also known as the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, why would he hold back? Especially now, when the country needs strong leadership and is left with Trudeau instead. On Friday...
Trump kicks sand in Trudeau's face, why wouldn't he?
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Trudeau cozy with money-grubbing Bloc Quebecois, say it ain't so
Just say it ain’t so, prime minister. Just say it ain’t so. They say politics makes strange bedfellows. Still, the very thought of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Bloc Quebecois head honcho Yves-Francois Blanchet sleeping together politically makes a lot of stomachs turn in Alberta and hopefully causes all kinds of indigestion throughout much of Canada.
Poilievre isn't scary, he thinks reality is 'bloody terrifying'
Pierre Poilievre says there are those already trying to paint him as one scary dude. It’s a dog-eared move out of a well-worn playbook and the federal Conservative leader insists it will go absolutely nowhere. “How can you be scared of the alternative when the present reality is bloody terrifying?” says Poilievre, in an exclusive interview with Postmedia during the...
Poilievre says he's a normal guy, the Liberal-NDP are lunatics
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Hey Toronto, took you long enough to figure out Trudeau
Took you long enough. Yes, earlier this week a swanky riding in Toronto saw the light. They really did. It was national news. Enough of these Toronto residents didn’t vote for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal candidate, allowing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives and their candidate to win in a byelection.
Danielle Smith punches back against Justin Trudeau — again
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Trudeau loves Guilbeault and all Danielle Smith got was a smile
This scribbler asks the question but I am not alone. Other newshounds figure it has to be asked. Article content After all, Premier Danielle Smith heard Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to be in Calgary Wednesday and so she came down from Edmonton and had a meeting with him.
TBA's David Parker speaks up after Premier Smith slams him down
Parker is still with Take Back Alberta, still raising money, running campaigns, working on what he calls game-changing projects. David Parker sounds like, well, David Parker. The Take Back Alberta main man is asked about where he thinks he stands with Premier Danielle Smith now.
Cold Mother Earth shows up the folly of Trudeau and Guilbeault
One thing about reality. You can’t talk your way around it forever. You can cook up all the fantasies you want, burp up all the pie-in-the-sky pronouncements you conjure up, dream up all kinds of perfect worlds and have them swirl around in your head.
Trudeau again tries to turn around the Liberal death march
If this was supposed to be a Hail Mary pass in the direction of Trudeau's political redemption, the pass was incomplete, under-thrown, hopelessly off-target