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Milke: Rachel Notley's NDP finishes off Alberta’s piggy bank
Imagine you are an eight-year-old boy and break into your sister’s piggy bank, only to find out there are only a few pennies left. You then discover that’s because your 10-year-old brother cracked open...
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Letters for Wednesday, Nov. 4
Remembering the best of Klein Re: “Don’t blame premier — she’s fixing Klein’s mess,” Naomi Lakritz, Opinion, Oct. 31. When you insult our late premier, Ralph Klein, not only do you disrespect the...
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Milke: Rachel Notley's policies are sure to benefit B.C. and Saskatchewan
When Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd recently suggested out of work Albertans just head to British Columbia, the minister unwittingly highlighted the likely outcome of her government’s...
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Thomson: Amnesia strikes the NDP's conservative critics
It was like election night all over again. When Premier Rachel Notley addressed a meeting of the NDP’s provincial council Saturday in Edmonton, the standing-room-only crowd of several hundred chanted...
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Milke: Alberta’s flat income tax system was no 'failure'
Just before Albertans launch into the new, high-tax universe in 2016, take a moment to memorialize one of the smartest things an Alberta government ever did — the introduction of a single-rate tax...
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Smith: Here's why Klein is the most memorable Albertan
By Murray Smith Re: “Don’t blame premier — she’s fixing Klein’s mess,” Naomi Lakritz, Opinion, Oct. 31. Naomi Lakritz wrote a column about former premier Ralph Klein. With Ralph and his chief defender...
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Editorial: The plane truth
In a province that could use some good news, it’s encouraging to know that the last of the government-owned airplanes has been sold. Soon after the fleet was established by the Progressive...
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Braid: Three-month-old NDP budget already in the dustbin of history
The NDP cabinet met Monday and Tuesday to try to make sense of low oil prices and the challenges of plunging royalties. They aren’t releasing any new revenue estimates yet, which is probably just as...
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Braid: Zero might be the new normal for public sector raises
The NDP is heading for an almighty dust-up with the government’s natural friends, the public sector unions. Health Minister Sarah Hoffman stepped into the ring Monday by declaring that doctors’ pay has...
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Milke: Merger of Wildrose and Tories may not be a match made in heaven
Smart people in the marriage business — counsellors, priests, Dr. Phil — often remind folks that compatibility matters much more than initial attraction. Sure, chemistry is important. Absent that, the...
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Fortney: U of C to celebrate 50-year milestone
In 1982, Calgary had fewer than 600,000 citizens, its tallest structure was the 191-metre-high Calgary Tower and its mayor was an irascible former TV reporter named Ralph Klein. Landing in the city at...
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Fildebrandt and Panda: Let the market drive diversification, not politicians
By Derek Fildebrandt and Prasad Panda “We will diversify the economy and get off the oil and gas roller-coaster.” A vast majority of Alberta’s elected politicians could have spoken those words over the...
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Your letters for Saturday, April 9
Drug arrest is ‘an embarrassment’ Re: “Pot activist charged with trafficking,” April 8. Our Calgary police force should have their budget cut by 10 per cent. Apparently, they have enough time on their...
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Braid: For NDP, deficits will be an acquired distaste
There’s nothing novel about Alberta budget deficits. What is new — and what alarms so many people — is that Alberta now has an NDP government that doesn’t hate the very idea of deficits, or even...
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Alberta budget shows province will nearly double borrowing by 2018
The NDP government has maxed out its credit card and been forced to apply for a higher limit, boosting the province’s borrowing to offset a 90 per cent reduction in resource revenues. The three-year...
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Braid: After that budget, could the NDP please calm down?
The New Democrats call their new budget the “Alberta Jobs Plan.” They are being far too modest. It is really the Alberta Tax, Deficit, Debt, Subsidy, Climate Change and, as a bonus, Jobs Plan. The...
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Milke: Private sector could teach NDP about budgets
Most people are not company presidents, nor chief financial officers. But imagine for a moment that you are. Then ask if, after company sales plunge by double digits, it is wise to A: Continue spending...
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PC leader returns to legislature without having to apologize
Tory Leader Ric McIver returned to the legislature Tuesday — one day after being evicted for challenging a ruling by the speaker and refusing to sit down. McIver thanked Speaker Bob Wanner for inviting...
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French: We need a great public education system
By Joel French Re: “Choice in education,” Editorial, April 16. The editorial is an unconvincing attempt to defend the status quo in regard to government funding for private schools in Alberta, on the...
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Your letters for Tuesday, May 17
I’ll contribute to mayor’s fees Re: “Mayor’s legal fees are a nuisance,” Editorial, May 13. There has been much fuss, and in my view, deeply inappropriate criticism directed at our mayor. While he is...
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