Calgary mayor hands Alberta PCs a 'Get Out of Jail Card' on public service...
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi handed Alberta Premier pro tempore Dave Hancock a Get Out of Jail Free card today.It may not seem that way at first blush, but when Nenshi wrote Premier Hancock assailing...
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Former Alberta premier Alison Redford's ill-conceived anti-union project was in shambles last night, with an agreement to send two bills attacking public sector pensions to a legislative committee...
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Amid all the brouhaha in recent weeks over Bill 9, the Alberta Progressive Conservative government's public service pension legislation, very little attention was paid to its private sector companion...
View ArticleMaster of survey spinning takes potshot at poll showing Jim Prentice far...
Please help rabble.ca stop Harper's election fraud plan. Become a monthly supporter.What would happen if a new poll put Thomas Lukaszuk in third place in the Tory leadership race?Oh, wait! The former...
View ArticleAlberta PC candidate Ric McIver needs to explain his connections to unsavoury...
Please help rabble.ca stop Harper's election fraud plan. Become a monthly supporter.Up to now, Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Ric McIver has quite successfully flown under the...
View ArticleCould Ric McIver still win the Alberta Tory leadership race? Actually, yes,...
CALGARYCould Ric McIver actually win the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race?Or, to put that another way, could Jim Prentice lose?Maybe that seems like a theme for a political science...
View ArticleLet's hear a big welcome for Preston Manning, a fresh new voice in Canadian...
"Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption." -- JAMES LEE BURKE, Wayfaring Stranger, 2014In all the brouhaha over former Alberta premier Alison Redford's appalling misuse of...
View ArticleAs soon as Alberta NDP picks a new leader today, the party's focus should...
After today, when the Alberta New Democratic Party has at long last chosen a leader to replace the retiring Brian Mason, she (or he) needs immediately to turn her (or his) attention to the Oct. 27...
View ArticleAlberta Liberals reject call for Hail Mary pass to Alberta Party, choose...
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!But early Sunday afternoon the Alberta Liberal Party's board rejected veteran Edmonton MLA Laurie Blakeman's plan to attempt a merger of her foundering...
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The deficit the Harper government refuses to recognize
Tuesday, February 3, 2015Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Premiers gathered in Ottawa last week to talk about pressing needs for Canadian infrastructure investment. As the Council of the...
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New Democrats to have real nomination battle in Calgary-Foothills riding
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporter of rabble.ca.Notwithstanding a gloomy demon-dialler poll suggesting voter support has migrated from the NDP Government to the...
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Lawsuit and ASIRT investigation illuminate the Alberta Tory Party's...
Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Two news stories yesterday illustrate the fatally deteriorating state of the once mighty and dynastic Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta.The front-page...
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Alberta oil patch firebrand's campaign against Linda McQuaig will (probably)...
Like this article? Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Brace yourselves, Toronto! Craig B. Chandler's heading your way to campaign against Linda McQuaig, the NDP's candidate in the Toronto Centre...
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Dear Ryan: It's time to move on
Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Open Letter to Ryan Leef, MP for YukonDear Ryan,read more
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Where were the 'good Conservatives,' prepared to speak against their party's...
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporter of rabble.ca.The single most disheartening thing about this long 2015 federal election campaign has been the silence among...
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Sudden death of young PC star Manmeet Bhullar in road accident stuns Alberta...
rabble is expanding our Parliamentary Bureau and we need your help! Support us on Patreon today!The sudden death of Calgary-Greenway MLA Manmeet Bhullar in a traffic accident yesterday on the highway...
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The Annals of the Alberta Party: A mystery created, a mystery solved
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.It's a mystery why the Alberta Party would choose not to run a candidate in the March 22 byelection...
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Acclaimed to party official's job, social conservative activist Craig...
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Craig Chandler -- just about the closest thing to ballot box poison in Alberta -- has just presented...
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Former Alberta Health Services CEO's accusations of NDP 'interference' raise...
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Vickie Kaminski's self-justifying letter of resignation, leaked to the CBC by a person or persons...
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Jason Kenney: Conservative saviour or a guy with the appeal of a trip to the...
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