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Your letters for Wednesday, Aug. 23
Bowfort Towers are meaningful for Albertans By using indigenous, natural stone, Bowfort Towers has a direct connection to all Albertans. Canada’s first national park began in the town of Banff on Mount...
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Kinder Morgan pipeline could reignite oilsands political battles
After years of heated political battles over the oilsands, a question looms — are passions cooling for a more peaceful future? In the last decade, the oilsands have landed in the crosshairs of...
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Braid: As election day nears, are voters turning away from Smith?
Is this polling, or pinball? The latest survey of Calgary voters, commissioned by a pro-Green Line group, shows Mayor Naheed Nenshi ahead by 15 points. The last one, done for Postmedia, said Bill Smith...
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Braid: Crazy civic election marked by conservative-progressive divide
This crazy civic election campaign has been about many things, most of them divisive. We’ve had allegations of race-baiting aimed at Mayor Naheed Nenshi, which is frankly absurd, since he was talking...
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Two deep-rooted Calgarians with differing visions contend for mayor's chair
The two frontrunners fighting to be the city’s next mayor are each quintessential Calgary, though their life stories are made of very different narratives. One is the 45-year-old son of hard-working...
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Braid: Lougheed's son blasts Kenney for chanelling dad's legacy
Stephen Lougheed says he’s upset by Jason Kenney’s “disingenuous” praise of his father, the late premier Peter Lougheed. At worst, he finds it “hypocritical.” Lee Richardson, former Conservative MP and...
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Braid: With UCP vote looming, Kenney snaps back at critics
Visibly irritated, Jason Kenney says he sometimes feels like he’s being “stoned by popcorn.” In the past few days the UCP leadership candidate has been accused of co-opting former premier Peter...
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Kenney wins big in UCP leadership race, fires warning shot at NDP
Jason Kenney, the prime architect of the United Conservative Party, will be its first leader. The former federal cabinet minister won on the first ballot of the UCP’s inaugural leadership election...
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Jason Kenney takes charge of UCP, seeks seat in legislature by Christmas
Newly minted United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney will immediately seek a seat in the Alberta legislature as a long-serving Calgary MLA said Sunday he would step aside to clear the way for the...
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Braid: The forced push to pot could bring patronage and more debt
Many Albertans still remember 1993, when Premier Ralph Klein’s Progressive Conservative government privatized liquor stores. It was a radical move in Canada. Big uproar. Very quickly, the government...
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Thomson: NDP is discovering that every move it makes will upset somebody
When Ralph Klein was premier, he’d often say that in politics, for every action a government takes, there is an equal and opposite reaction, usually unfavourable. With apologies to Sir Isaac Newton,...
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Nelson: Albertans' love affair with debt runs deep
Someone in Calgary has borrowed $28,000 on my behalf and I want them to pay it back. But sadly, the chances of that happening are set between slim and none, as I’m sure it was a fellow called...
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Breakenridge: Alberta Opposition's pot policies don't pass the smell test
While support for cannabis legalization has grown tremendously in recent years, it’s also true that there isn’t unanimous consensus that it’s the right thing to do. However, it’s also the case that...
View ArticleUCP to consider return of Alberta flat tax, increased private health care
The United Conservative Party will commit to returning Alberta to a flat tax on income, ensuring equal funding for private schools and increasing privately funded, privately delivered health care...
View ArticleCorbella: Nenshi needs to be more like Ralph and open up on Olympics costs
My how times change. Back when Ralph Klein was mayor of Calgary, he was the one leaking secret documents to journalists about the city’s bid to host the 1988 Winter Olympics. By contrast, Calgary Mayor...
View ArticleBraid: Harper and Scott Moe come down hard on Brian Jean
The message to Alberta conservatives is stark — stay behind Jason Kenney, or else. The thought that Brian Jean might step over to Derek Fildebrandt’s Freedom Conservative Party brought fierce blowback...
View ArticleDanielle Smith: PC dynasty lives on in 2019 election choices
I am going to ask you a question that I think may be a decent proxy to figure out who you are likely to vote for in the Alberta election on April 16. Who do you think was the best premier of Alberta —...
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