Danielle Smith

Don Braid’s in love with REDford, loses his journalistic credibility

November 15, 2011 Media

Oh, Don, Don, Don! Whatever happened to you? You used to be known for accurate news analysis, but now you’ve sold your soul to the editorial board of your newspaper, the Calgary Herald. How else can we explain your expressions of love and affection for Alison REDford, Alberta’s current – and short-lived – premier? How [...]

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Wildrose Alliance shows the way on human rights

September 27, 2011 Politics

Everyone probably agrees that discrimination on account of aspects beyond the control of the individual, such as one’s skin colour or gender, is wrong. If someone is passed over for a job or an apartment because they happen to be the “wrong colour” or have a foreign-sounding name (something yours truly has personally experienced many [...]

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Alberta Tories Leadership: Going nowhere

September 16, 2011 Politics

How’s the Alberta Tories leadership race been for you? Has it riveted you to your seat? I can’t help but feel that the whole affair has been a major letdown. After the debacle that was Ed Stelmach’s reign of incompetence, I was hoping to see some real commitment among Tories to do things differently – [...]

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Wildrose down, Wildrose up

August 13, 2011 Politics

Is it any wonder that only 15% of Canadians are still paying attention to politics? When following political events becomes a struggle, often laced with conflicting reports, it’s not surprising that so many people simply switch off. Take a look at how two newspapers have reported on the same topic in a single day.

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Tough to be a conservative – just ask Stephen Harper

July 13, 2011 Politics

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on a quick swing through Calgary, decided to burnish his conservative credentials – where was he during the federal election campaign? – by reminding his audience, and anyone else still bothering to listen, that “Conservative values are Canadian values. Canadian values are Conservative values.”

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Battle royal: health care

January 31, 2011 Politics

Now that arch-conservative Ted Morton has declared his intention to run for the Alberta Tories leadership, it is clear what the main battleground will be: health care.

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What happened between Tories and HRC?

August 24, 2010 Politics

Health Resource Centre (HRC) is a privately-operated clinic specializing in knee and hip replacements. The clinic was on a retainer with the provincial government to provide private, yet publicly-funded, services to Albertans in order to reduce excessive wait times in this field. But now HRC is in receivership, and the government washes its hands of [...]

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Edmonton mayor must grow up

July 31, 2010 Politics

On Friday, Mayor Stephen Mandel blasted Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith for jumping into the debate over the planned closure of Edmonton’s City Centre Airport. He wasn’t angry because he disagrees with her push to keep the airport open. No, he was infuriated by the mere fact that she’s from Calgary. “Many Edmontonians, and myself included, [...]

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Don Gray: keep government out of our lives

July 21, 2010 Politics

Mr. Gray sees himself as a classical liberal, who believes in the liberty of the individual and who wouldn’t have government running anything in anyone’s life (“not what church you go to, or what you do in your bedroom”). In the same vein, “the economy is far better off if the people who make the [...]

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