So the field is set for the semi-annual running of the PC Leadership Derby. And what a field it is! Up and comers, and people who think they are up and comers. Former stars and has beens, the too young and the too old. It’s an interesting (although not exactly inspiring) group. With a couple […]
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For a while, it looked like Raj Sherman had dodged the bullet. Sure, he blasted the health care system in no uncertain terms. But after Sherman has a let’s-all-cry-like-men meeting with the Tory caucus, all was forgiven. He was under stress, he wrote the now notorious email at 3 a.m., and it wasn’t meant for […]
I’ll say this for Ed Stelmach — the guy has all the political instincts of a squirrel. Wednesday’s QP was an example of Stelmach at his worst. Liberal leader David Swann was asking some very pointed questions about long term care. “The Premier likes to talk about not splitting up senior couples when they need […]
My old reporter’s heart, which bleeds ink, feels a certain empathy for the poor sods who have to cover the Alberta Legislature on a daily basis. All that sound and fury, and hardly a story to report. I found a few things that were amusing over the past couple of days, if you really stretch […]
