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It has been an incredible 15 days since Alberta’s historic 2015 election. Here is a quick look back at what has happened in the past two weeks and what will happen in the months ahead. May 5: Rachel...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Rachel Notley sets transition schedule for NDP government,...
Premier Designate Rachel Notley addresses reporters in the Alberta Legislature Building’s media room yesterday. (CBC photo.) Below: MLA Deborah Drever, new Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell. If...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Inside baseball: Legislature picks Speaker; Albertans to...
PHOTOS: Opposition Leader Brian Jean, at left, and Premier Rachel Notley, far right, drag the new Speaker, Medicine Hat MLA Bob Wanner, to his chair, a tradition dating to the days when chairing the...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: June 15 marks the end of the NDP’s trek...
On June 15, 2015, Alberta’s new government will present its first Speech from the Throne. Read by new Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell, the speech will represent the first official major statement...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Something new, and probably something old too: Reflections...
PHOTOS: Now that’s a throne speech! The Queen addresses Parliament in the Senate Chamber in Ottawa in 1957 as prime minister John Diefenbaker, on her right, listens to his government’s plans, no doubt...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The Speech from the Throne: NDP’s new political funding...
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley gives a thumbs up in the Legislature for her government’s Speech from the Throne yesterday. Below: Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell reads the speech (Government...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Looking ahead to the Throne Speech and...
Similar to last week’s third quarter fiscal update delivered by finance minister Joe Ceci, this week’s Speech from the Throne will mostly focus on political messaging and managing public expectations....
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Shoreline, True Grit, photo-bombing, certainty and the...
PHOTOS: Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell, clad in a purple official gown, reads the NDP Government’s third Speech from the Throne in the Legislature in Edmonton yesterday afternoon. Below:...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Brad Wall out! Jason Kenney not yet sworn in! Is Rachel...
PHOTOS: Brad Wall, the former premier of Saskatchewan, offers his farewell attack on the Alberta NDP to enthusiastic Saskatchewan Party supporters in Saskatoon last night. (Photo: Screenshot from...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta honour for k.d. lang shows times are changing, but...
The elevation of Alberta-born chanteuse k.d. lang to the Alberta Order of Excellence last week is both a positive sign of change in Alberta and
View ArticleAlberta Politics: A holiday toast to Don Getty, the father of Family Day,...
Lord knows, Canadians need a February holiday! So thank God for small favours and, come to that, for Don Getty! As favours go, Mr. Getty, 11th premier of Alberta, was a pretty small one. Just the same,...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Rachel Notley accepts nomination; accuses Jason Kenney of...
Based on what we’ve learned in the past 24 hours, it’s hard to dispute Premier Rachel Notley’s blunt assessment at her nomination meeting in the Edmonton-Strathcona riding yesterday that Opposition...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Never mind the Throne Speech, yesterday’s excitement was...
Never mind the Throne Speech. Yesterday’s excitement all took place in the basement media room of the Alberta Legislature Building an hour afterward. The afternoon Speech from the Throne by Alberta’s...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Crib notes: Understanding yesterday’s United Conservative...
As the documents that lay out the government’s policy agenda for the next couple of years, Throne Speeches are by nature tendentious. In the service of making what is a curse to many citizens appear to...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Between Our Sovereign Lady the Queen and the Accused at...
Mr. Speaker, honourable members of the Legislative Assembly, fellow Albertans … [Turns page.] I speak to you as Alberta’s vice-regal — which has nothing to do with vice, by the way, not that kind,...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Unconstitutional anyone? If Lieutenant Governor Lois...
Bill 1 is a breathtakingly terrible piece of legislation. The bill, given first reading in the Alberta Legislature on Tuesday, is called the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act. Edmonton lawyer Simon...
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