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Jean and his caucus: Wildrose is determined to bring all Alberta...
By Brian Jean and the Wildrose caucus After a year of NDP government, huge numbers of right-of-centre Albertans are clamouring for a united conservative party to stand in the next election. Despite...
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Former Tory finance minister Jim Dinning backs carbon tax idea
Former Tory finance minister Jim Dinning says it’s time for conservative parties to “stop dragging our knuckles” and back the idea of a carbon tax. Dinning, an adviser to Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission,...
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Your letters for Thursday, June 2
Unhappy with property tax hikes Good old Mayor Naheed Nenshi and his cohorts just sent me another double-digit property tax increase — 12 per cent to be precise, or $304. What part of a recession does...
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Braid: Second-class Calgary? Warning from Flames president won't make...
Flames boss Ken King has two words for Calgary — “second place.” That’s where we’ll be, he says, without new sports and entertainment facilities. In an interview, King said that when Edmonton’s new...
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Calgary's historic St. Louis Hotel re-opens its doors
The historic St. Louis Hotel in Calgary’s East Village, once a watering hole famously patronized by former Alberta premier Ralph Klein, re-opened its doors Friday. Designated a historic site by the...
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Fortney: Trump's wild weekend watched by local American expats
It was once the golden rule of polite social discourse, the warnings found in all the etiquette books of the day: at social gatherings, there is no place for the subjects of religion and politics....
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Braid: NDP says it has the proof on claimed Enron power fix
The government’s lawsuit over power purchase agreements, surely one of the weirdest on legal record, is so mystifying that many Albertans conclude it’s a convoluted political stunt. The truth of it...
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Milke: NDP government is tempted to believe its own press clippings
In the ancient tale of Narcissus, a handsome young man spurns a lady and leaves her heartbroken. This infuriates the gods, who decide to punish his carelessness. Soon after, Narcissus walks by a lake...
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Your letters for Friday, Aug. 26
Don’t stigmatize drug users Re: “Fatal police shooting tragedy, not ‘murder,'” Aug. 24. I was horrified by the comments made by Calgary police union president Howard Burns regarding the death of...
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Norman Kwong will be remembered for his sense of humour and his strong sense...
Shortly after Norman Kwong was made Alberta’s 16th lieutenant-governor, he and Gary Mar walked into the legislature together. That day in 2005 Kwong turned to his younger in-law, then a member of Ralph...
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Your letters for Tuesday, Sept. 6
New arena should be next Re: “Councillor urges support for new sports venue as debate continues,” Sept. 1. I applaud Coun. Shane Keating for voicing what seems to be the obvious — that CalgaryNEXT has...
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Braid: How an Alberta premier gets popular, except in Alberta
Your typical Canadian appears to have considerable regard for Premier Rachel Notley. The species of Canadian called Albertan, however, generally does not. A new Mainstreet/Postmedia poll shows Notley...
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Milke: Rachel Notley's latest attack on success
Imagine you are a young female physician in 1999 who just finished a specialized residency. You are working full time and can begin to pay down your student debt. Imagine also that the province begins...
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Your letters for Tuesday, Oct. 25
There’s a compromise to paid hospital parking Re: “Paid parking at hospitals just another bump along life’s highway,” Chris Nelson, Opinion, Oct. 20. I would like to propose a simple solution that will...
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Braid: A sombre memorial for a premier, and a party
Since a plane crashed two weeks ago, killing Jim Prentice, the mourning has been about much more than the former premier. Tangled up in the shocking suddenness of his death at age 60, mixed with deep...
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Braid: The NDP's headlong rush to overhaul Alberta by 2019
“They don’t know what they’re doing,” is a charge many Albertans level at Premier Rachel Notley’s New Democrats. But it’s entirely wrong. This is the most focused, goal-oriented government Alberta has...
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Braid: Nenshi says he's not campaigning yet, then takes a run at NDP
After announcing his candidacy for a third term Friday, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said he won’t start campaigning until next spring. Of course not, but … it sure doesn’t take much to get him talking in...
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Braid: Created to relieve misery, AISH now causes its own
The bureaucratic mess will make you mad. The human harm could make you weep. Alberta’s auditor general has found what thousands of Alberta’s disabled people, and their families, have known for years....
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Calgary's very first CTrain car retires after 2.5 million km career
After 36 years of service, more than 2.5 million kilometres, and too many passengers to count, Calgary Transit’s very first Light Rail Vehicle is retiring. With the windows and doors already gone,...
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Former Alberta cabinet minister Halvar Jonson dead at 75, served for 22 years
PONOKA — Former Alberta cabinet minister Halvar Jonson has died at the age of 75. Jonson, a Progressive Conservative, was first elected in 1982 and represented the Ponoka-Rimbey constituency for 22...
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