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Braid: Wildrose turns down starring role on Prentice reality show
Premier Jim Prentice will address the province on TV next Tuesday on the state of the economy and the looming budget — but not with the Wildrose opposition in tow. “It will be on the fiscal situation...
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Prentice defends $75,000 televised address as he warns about budget's...
Tax hikes are looming as Premier Jim Prentice prepares to speak directly to Albertans and the Progressive Conservative government puts the final touches on the provincial budget that will be released...
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Editorial: A grab bag of tax hikes (with poll)
Premier Jim Prentice’s government outlined a different Alberta Advantage on Thursday than the one that evolved two decades ago. Ralph Klein’s Alberta Advantage was based on a low-tax environment that...
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Editorial: Dumb idea for students
Premier Jim Prentice has described the crafting of the government’s new budget as one of the hardest tasks he’s been involved with. The mix of spending cuts and tax increases was undoubtedly a...
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Braid: With polls tight, the PCs are nervous and the campaign will get rough
What a very odd start to the election campaign that was supposed to bring political peace in our time. Poll after poll shows the voters are upset, really upset, enough to push Wildrose ahead of the...
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Braid: Why Prentice is playing the 'extremist' card
It seems strange for Premier Jim Prentice to brand other parties “extreme” in this election campaign, when the Progressive Conservatives have done nearly everything that any Alberta party could...
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Prentice promises beefed-up Heritage Fund, but keeps quiet on investment plans
Tory Leader Jim Prentice touted his party’s pledge to double the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund on Friday, but gave few details on his plan to use it to bankroll economic diversification....
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Vancouver or Calgary: Who's best in the West?
At this time of year, with the hockey playoffs in the offing, it’s a hate-hate relationship. The Calgary Herald’s Jason Markusoff and Vancouver Sun’s Scott Brown drop the gloves for a bit of verbal...
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Breakenridge: Prentice seems determined to frighten both the left and right
It’s unclear at what point the Alberta Tories decided they would need to dust off the 2012 election playbook, but it certainly puts the events of the past month in a different light. After all, we’ve...
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Carter: PC campaign counting on short-term memory loss
In Alberta, we’re accustomed to political opportunism, but this? The Progressive Conservatives are fighting their traditional battle against themselves. Over the past 44 years, we have seen the current...
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Nelson: Prentice was right to admit he was wrong
When Ralph Klein was mayor of our city, he once held a morning press conference to call a municipal union greedy, only to call another media get-together barely three hours later to say, oops, sorry,...
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Ralph Klein's daughter backs NDP
Call it another kind of Klein revolution. Angie Klein, daughter of former PC Premier Ralph Klein, is backing the NDP in the May 5 provincial election. In a video posted to YouTube, Klein said she was...
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Braid: From PCs, rumblings about the campaign, the budget and the premier
An autopsy without a corpse is always premature, but some Progressive Conservatives are ready to dissect the party’s troubled campaign even before next Tuesday’s provincial vote. Several ex-politicians...
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Editorial: The end of a dynasty
An orange wave rolled over Alberta last night, and within an hour after the polls closed, this province’s political history was changed forever. Alberta, supposedly the most right-wing province in...
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Calgary à l'Orange: NDPs rout the city Tories used to own
The NDP’s surge to majority upset ran right through the heart of Calgary, as Rachel Notley’s party won most seats in a traditionally conservative city that had shunned them since the 1980s. Starting...
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Prentice quits and PC supporters stunned as Tory rule crumbles
With less than a dozen seats and the Tory dynasty in tatters following Tuesday’s stunning defeat — followed by the resignation of leader Jim Prentice — high-profile members now suggest the party...
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By the numbers: Inside the Alberta election
UNITE THE RIGHT Immediately following Tuesday night’s rout, high-profile Tories, including former Calgary police chief Rick Hanson and Education Minister Gordon Dirks, suggested the decimated party...
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Cooper: It's no surprise Alberta Tories got the boot
It’s a lot easier to show how and why the Progressive Conservatives lost, than what the victory of the NDP might mean. The seeds of destruction were planted during the last half of Ralph Klein’s...
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Fortney: Crescent Heights High School celebrates 100 years
It’s not every day a high school dropout posts a YouTube video crediting that institution for his ultimate success. “What I learned at Crescent Heights helped get me to where I am today,” says a...
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Thomson: Notley's pared down cabinet sends big message
The forecast calls for sunny skies and a high of 25 C. Rachel Notley couldn’t have asked for better weather this Sunday when she and her new cabinet are sworn in on the legislature grounds. These...
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