David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Parks Canada carnage sideswipes Jasper with...
Will the last person to leave Jasper please turn out the lights? A view of Beauvert Lake, near the Jasper townsite, as the sun sets. Below: Anchors Aweigh! There’ll be nothing at all like this for the...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Tories impose a strict policy of...
TweetThe strength of any long-ruling political party is the ability to reinvent itself under new leaders and changing circumstances. After 43-years in power, Alberta’s Progressive Conservative...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Alberta tar sands claim the soul of Conservative MP...
Conservative MP Rob Merrifield resigned his elected seat this week to work as Alberta Premier Jim Prentice’s leading tar sands lobbyist in Washington. The post Alberta tar sands claim the soul of...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Nomination update: Yellowhead by-election,...
TweetPremier Jim Prentice announced this week that five-term Conservative Member of Parliament Rob Merrifield would be appointed as Alberta’s representative in Washington D.C. Mr. Merrifield’s...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the politics and economics of energy production are changing around the world – and how Canada is being left behind due to governments focused solely on pushing oil interests. For further...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Yellowhead federal by-election called for...
TweetProviding a distraction from the four provincial by-elections currently being held in Alberta, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today that federal by-elections will be held in Ontario’s...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Sleepy Yellowhead by-election set for...
TweetA big Conservative win is inevitable in this rural Alberta riding When recently resigned Conservative Member of Parliament Rob Merrifield was appointed by Premier Jim Prentice as Alberta’s...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Keystone XL, Alberta Oil Sands and...
TweetAs the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline dominates political debate in Washington D.C., Alberta Premier Jim Prentice announced that he will soon travel to the American capital to lobby in favour of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Rachel Notley to Alberta’s trade ‘envoy’ to Washington:...
PHOTOS: Departing Alberta trade ‘envoy’ to Washington, D.C., Rob Merrifield, back in the day when he was a federal cabinet minister. Below: Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice, who hired Mr. Merrifield...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Fate of Canadian Wheat Board a disturbing harbinger for...
PHOTOS: Tractors in the streets of Ottawa on Tuesday, their drivers protesting the Harper Conservatives’ barely concealed plans to destroy the supply-management agricultural sector. (Grabbed from...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: One day after his graceless departure, former Alberta...
PHOTOS: Sour grapes! Actual former Alberta trade representatives may not appear exactly as illustrated. (Photo from Barkpost.com.) Below: Alberta Conservative-connected lobbyists Rob Merrifield, Hal...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Keystone XL is dead. New government means...
Having enjoyed the last week in the sunny Berkeley, California, it felt odd to turn on the car radio to hear the local disc jockeys discussing the tarsands and the merits of a pipeline that would pump...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: What about Bob? Hawkesworth swoops into top...
Former Calgary alderman Bob Hawkesworth has been appointed Executive Director of Premier Rachel Notley’s southern Alberta office at the McDougall Centre in Calgary. A press release sent out on Nov. 7...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: 2015 was a great year for Progressive...
It was an exciting year to be a progressive in Alberta. May 5, 2015 marked the first time since the 1930s that a conservative party did not win a provincial election in Alberta. The defeat of the...
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