Alberta Diary: Once a Tory leadership front-runner, Gary Mar reaches out from...
Brian Mulroney, right, famously responds to the claim made by John Turner, left, that he had “no option” but approve Pierre Trudeau’s patronage appointments. Below: Gary Mar in 2011. Advice to Jim...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Could Ric McIver still win the Alberta Tory leadership race?...
Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets. All the money’s on Jim Prentice – but is it the smart money? Below: Ric McIver, Jim Prentice, Jim Dinning and Gary Mar. CALGARY Could Ric McIver actually win the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Tories shut down any possibility leadership candidate Thomas...
Thomas Lukaszuk is an entertaining speaker with a full range of facial expressions. His party is going to make darned sure he doesn’t have a chance to use those talents in the service of his leadership...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Tory candidate Ric McIver to voters: No to green light speed...
Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue at 4 a.m., as imagined by Ric McIver, would-be Tory leader and premier. Actual Alberta street scenes are unlikely ever to be as described with regard to the availability of...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Anti-gay pastor, denied by Ric McIver, endorses the PC...
Pastor Artur Pawlowski and members of his flock march uninvited in 2012 at the head of the Calgary Stampede Parade, also known as the March for Mammon. Pastor Pawlowski, who holds extreme views about...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: So much for ‘leading by example’ – Alberta Tories’ 3-year pay...
Ice cream on a hot day – melts almost as fast as an Alberta Tory management wage freeze! Actual PC promises of “leading by example” may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Finance Minister Doug...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Flights of folly: Air Redford’s airborne ghost riders will be...
De Plane! De Plane! Tattoo calls out from the tower to announce the arrival of the premier’s plane at Calgary International Airport. Actual members of former Premier Alison Redford’s staff may not...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Is there any benefit for Albertans in a criminal prosecution...
Alison Redford, in days past, somewhere in the skies over Alberta. OK, I never said I was a master of Photoshop! Below: Disgraced Canadian Senator Mike Duffy, Alberta Tory leadership frontrunner Jim...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: The #PCldr Files: Who is the best Tory choice for the coming...
Your blogger with PC leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk. We’re not usually as friendly as this picture makes us look – especially on Twitter. Below: Tory leadership frontrunner Jim Prentice,...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Alison’s Albertan airplanes and architecture: Who knew? No...
A search for a member of Alison Redford’s cabinet or caucus who knew what was going on in the premier’s office might look something like this. Nothing like this is necessary in Alberta, though, because...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Whiny e-pistle notwithstanding, Finance Minister Doug Horner a...
Finance Minister Doug Horner on his Alberta politics Most Wanted card. Below: The real Mr. Horner; Hamilton Burger, “incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial!” Sgt. Shultz: “I see nothing!” If you want...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: The boss has gone crazy! He’s giving away PC Party...
Tory leadership frontrunner Jim Prentice: Yeah! That’s it! I’ll give away memberships! Below: Candidates Ric McIver and Thomas Lukaszuk. Holy Cow! Not only does Alberta Tory leadership frontrunner Jim...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Have the PCs sold only 23,700 memberships? If so, it’s bad...
Jim Prentice tries to figure out what to do about his incredible shrinking party. Actual potential Progressive Conservative leaders may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: the real Mr. Prentice,...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Sure you can run in my riding! With friends like Neil Brown,...
Neil Brown interviewed by a reporter – Darcy Henton of the Calgary Herald, not Matt Dykstra of the Edmonton Sun – on the day the Tory caucus gave Alison Redford her “work plan.” Not long after that...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: A few harmless slaps were landed, but last night’s PC...
The Three Tory Amigos just before last night’s Edmonton debate. Below: Mr. Lukaszuk, who your blogger says was the debate winner, frontrunner Jim Prentice, and the challenger with the best chance, Ric...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Albertans have a right to ask questions about the integrity...
Alberta Tories contemplate their departure from the Legislature. Actual Progressive Conservative Government officials may not leave office in exactly the manner illustrated. Below: But if they do, is...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Term limits on Alberta MLAs? ‘I think Jim Prentice is trying...
“A night to remember”: Jim Prentice explains to reporters how term limits for MLAs can work. Really! Below: The orchestra the Tories should have hired to play the lunchtime event. There was no...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Just as things were looking up a bit for foundering PCs,...
Alison Redford contemplates which way to turn as she leaves behind a trail of devastation, toward the capital city’s new Sky Palace Hotel, left, or toward Edmonton’s High Level Bridge, right. Actual...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: PC leadership: Jim Prentice’s term limit fumble and Thomas...
File under, “Dinner, done like”… Alison Redford serves dinner to Thomas Lukaszuk as Jim Prentice, at left, and Dave Hancock, Doug Horner and Ric McIver look on. Actual Tory premiers, former premiers,...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Unsolved mysteries: Never mind those roaming charges, who...
Capt. Queeg of the USS Caine channels Alberta Tory Party leaders as he describes the search for the missing strawberries. Imagine what he would have done with a purloined cell phone bill or a leaked...
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