David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Go figure! Elections Alberta demands group...
A group of typical Albertan soccer moms thinks about whom to vote for. Their rifles are, of course, unregistered. But what about the opinions on their web page? Alberta Chief Electoral Office O. (for...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Welcome to Alberta’s Wild West, where the market sets the...
Drug store billionaire Daryl Katz, right, discusses his plans for a new Edmonton hockey arena with a representative of the Alberta government. Since Wild West hockey barons may not appear exactly as...
View Articlecalgaryliberal.com: The Katz Katastrophe
The bending of election rules by the provincial Conservatives isn’t new. It’s a regular affair by now. Kevin Taft’s lawsuit against Elections Alberta, the ongoing debacle of large union and corporate...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: A tsunami of Tory troubles? Naw, the Alberta universe is...
All we want are the facts, Ma’am. A couple of investigators hired by Alberta Chief Electoral Officer O. (for Olaf) Brian Fjeldheim prepare to go through the files of friends, relatives and employees of...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Despite a lot of distraction, illegal political donations...
Political culture in Alberta? Maybe not exactly as illustrated, but it’s still a problem for the Redford Government if Albertans see it that way. Below: O. Brian Fjeldheim. OK, we’re all enjoying a...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: All lawbreakers will be punished … unless they happen to be...
“’Ave you got a leesence for your minkey?” An investigator for Elections Alberta pauses momentarily in his probe of political donations made to the Progressive Conservative Party by seeing-eye monkeys....
View ArticleAlberta Diary: PC finances: looks like Armageddon for Tories and Wildrose...
Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith, on horseback, gazes at all that remains of Alberta’s once-mighty Alberta Progressive Conservative dynasty. Actual Alberta politicians may not appear quite so...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Say what? After 36 years, secret Alberta Tory slush fund comes...
Senior Alberta Progressive Conservative Party officials and guards remove election campaign funds from the vaults of the “Tapcal Trust.” Actual PC party officials may not appear exactly as illustrated:...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Fundraising numbers expose PC, Wildrose...
TweetThe latest quarterly fundraising disclosures from Alberta’s provincial political parties were released by Elections Alberta this week, and Alberta’s two conservative parties remain the dominant...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Liberal Leader Raj Sherman may have scored ‘own goal’ as...
If this is your own goal, there may be something wrong with your game! Below: Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman and Edmonton billionaire Daryl Katz. Call it the Alberta Political Advantage. Reports of...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Tracking Alberta political party fundraising...
Following last week’s release of Alberta’s political party financial disclosure reports for 2014, I thought it would be interesting to look at the history of political donations in our province over...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Controversial Wildrose leaflet had similarities to B.C....
PHOTOS: Wildrose Leader Brian Jean, at right, appeared on a Calgary talk radio program yesterday. (Grabbed from Twitter.) Mr. Jean failed to repudiate accusations made in a Chinese-language party...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Wildrose Party wins the second-quarter fund-raising...
PHOTOS: Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean has every right to smile about the party’s second-quarter fund-raising results. The question is: Can they be sustained? (Photo grabbed from Wildrose.ca.) Below:...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta right now: The state of the province, its parties,...
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley addresses supporters for her “state of the province” speech in Calgary’s Jack Singer Concert Hall yesterday. (Photo from the Premier of Alberta’s Flickr account.)...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Trouble on the ‘Alb-Right’? What are the details of...
PHOTOS: Opposition Leader Brian Jean. He says he has a better plan than Jason Kenney’s to unite the right. The only thing is, he won’t say what it is. If it involves changing the party name, though, as...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Happy New Year! AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten political...
PHOTOS: Your blogger, in hat, contemplates the difference between the renamed Conservative Party of Alberta and the renamed Conservative Party of Alberta. That’s not a typo. See Prediction No. 9 below...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Lid’s still on the unite-the-right soup the Wildrose...
PHOTOS: Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean gets ready to explain his plan to unite Alberta’s right under his leadership as a giant bull crashes through the wall behind him. The circumstances portrayed in...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta Liberals launch leadership race as Tory contest...
PHOTOS: The Alberta Liberal Party executive. From left to right: Vice-President Fundraising John Roggeveen, Secretary Alyssa Moore, Treasurer Greg Springate, President Karen Sevcik, MLA David Swann, VP...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Brian Jean makes it clear, any new Alberta conservative...
PHOTOS: Hate to burst your balloons, Tories, but Brian Jean says any new new united right-wing party will be the Wildrose Party, and nothing else. (Wildrose.ca photo.) Below: Wildrose Finance Critic...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Liberals fined $2000 for violating...
A $2,000 fine was issued against the Alberta Liberal Party in November 2016 after Elections Alberta found the party had accepted a $17,000 contribution that violated the Election Finances and...
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