Ed Stelmach

Ed “Chavez” Stelmach is Alberta’s worst enemy

April 7, 2011 Business

Welcome to Alberzuela, folks, where business is systematically run into the ground or driven away. As even first-year business students know, nothing matters more than certainty and having a reliable and stable legal and regulatory framework. Make things unpredictable, say, like in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, where private business interests can be taken away by government [...]

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Stelmach’s leaving could prove lethal to Wildrose Alliance

January 26, 2011 Politics

With Alberta’s worst and least-popular premier in the province’s history soon to be gone, the Alberta Tories seem intent on rebooting their franchise. Being able to leave the negative press around Ed Stelmach behind them, the party feels they have one more chance to reconnect with voters.

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Post-Stelmach: Who’s headed for the graveyard, the Alberta Tories or the Wildrose Alliance?

January 26, 2011 Politics

With Alberta’s worst and least-popular premier in the province’s history soon to be gone, the Alberta Tories seem intent on rebooting their franchise. Being able to leave the negative press around Ed Stelmach behind them, the party feels they have one more chance to reconnect with voters.

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Alberta’s worst premier to resign – time for the Tories to wither away

January 25, 2011 Politics

Albertans are celebrating: the worst premier in the province’s history, Ed Stelmach, has finally caught a whiff of reality and decided it’s time to leave. Stelmach will stay on as Alberta Tories leader and premier for now but won’t run in the next election, which could come anytime between this fall and March 2012.

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Stelmach to step aside, but Tories are history regardless

January 25, 2011 Politics

Albertans are celebrating: the worst premier in the province’s history, Ed Stelmach, has finally caught a whiff of reality and decided it’s time to leave. Stelmach will stay on as Alberta Tories leader and premier for now but won’t run in the next election, which could come anytime between this fall and March 2012.

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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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Alberta Liberals: Let’s talk

July 8, 2010 Politics

Variatio delectat – or liberally translated: having choices makes one’s heart bounce with joy. These days, it seems, Albertans must have especially bouncy hearts, because their choices of parties for the next provincial election (likely to come in 2011 or 2012) are growing. But are they really? The Alberta Tories are tired, worn out and, [...]

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