Calgary Herald

Feb 14 2019 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Deferred prosecution agreements and remediation are two terms being bandied about in discussions regarding the SNC-Lavalin/Jody Wilson-Raybould scandal over the past week. Many commentators have been almost as critical about these legal tools to hold corporate criminals accountable as they have been on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of this affair. Last week, it was […]

Feb 13 2019 — Calgary Herald — Premier Rachel Notley accused United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney on Tuesday of looking to make life harder for young minimum-wage workers and those in the service industry if he’s elected. Notley spoke to members of the Rotary Club of Calgary during a luncheon at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel, where she responded to comments made […]

Feb 13 2019 — Calgary Herald — Alberta’s minimum wage for young workers and the merits of liquor law restrictions came into focus Tuesday as provincial leaders staked out policy positions ahead of a spring election. United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney told an Edmonton audience gathered for a Restaurants Canada event that he will change provincial liquor laws and move away […]

Feb 10 2019 — Calgary Herald — A list of NDP staffers created by a Twitter account associated with UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s office drew criticism Saturday, while comments posted with the list defended it as a way to point out partisan tweets made during government hours. The Twitter account Unite Alberta shared the list Friday, along with the message: “Since many […]

Jan 24 2019 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — The Collins dictionary defines extortion as “the crime of obtaining something from someone, especially money, by using force or threats.” Parks Canada, then, may have just become this country’s largest extortionist. On Monday, Ralph Scurfield, president and CEO of Sunshine Village — the ski resort he and his family have built into a world-renowned destination […]

Jan 22 2019 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Alberta’s provincial election hasn’t even been called and already much can be said about it. Firstly, it’s going to get nastier and, secondly, the chances of it being earlier than May is getting slimmer by the day as more NDP MLAs are jumping the NDP government’s sinking ship — two on Monday alone. First, we’ll […]

Jan 17 2019 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Anyone in Canada who knows anything about the target on the back of Canadian oil and gas knows the name Vivian Krause. Everyone else should. Krause’s name has become synonymous with the fight against the concerted effort by U.S. oil interests working to land-lock Canadian oil and gas by using environmental groups to protest against […]

Jan 16 2019 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — Some Alberta fantasists thought provincial conservatives would truly unite after the mass floor-crossings of 2014, or the formation of the United Conservative Party in 2017. It was not to be. Maybe it will never be. Our homegrown conservatives are born to brawl. They’re at it right up to the eve of a crucial provincial election […]

Jan 16 2019 — Chris Varcoe — Calgary Herald — Premier Rachel Notley regularly needles Ottawa these days to “step up” and improve oil transportation in Canada, turning the Trudeau government into Alberta’s pipeline pincushion. There’s a reason for the frequent digs. Albertans overwhelmingly believe the federal government isn’t doing enough to ensure pipelines get built — along with half of all Canadians — even […]

Jan 9 2019 — Naomi Lakritz — Calgary Herald — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s brand of feminism is wearing rather thin and hypocrisy is showing beneath it. Last year, the federal government announced that any small business or organization wanting funding under the Canada Summer Jobs program had to be pro-choice. This ridiculous stipulation meant that a pro-life group couldn’t get any money to hire […]

Jan 7 2019 — Bill Kaufmann — Calgary Herald — Former Calgary-Varsity NDP MLA Stephanie McLean was paid during a recent leave from that job, but the premier’s office on Monday gave sketchy details on how much she was compensated in that time. On Jan. 2, Premier Rachel Notley announced McLean’s resignation as MLA, about six months after the then-minister for Service Alberta and status […]

Jan 6 2019 — Calgary Herald — A man credited as one of the builders of Alberta’s reform movement at a time when western alienation was on the rise has died at 82. Family, friends and former political allies of Myron Thompson are remembering the longtime Sundre-area MP as a unique personality in politics who was proud of his roots. Thompson was […]

Dec 28 2018 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — Premier Rachel Notley knows exactly where she stands on this Alberta separatism thing. “I say that my Canada includes Alberta, and my Alberta is part of Canada,” she says in a year-end interview. “We have an obligation as political leaders to find a solution. We absolutely have to find a solution. “Nobody wins in the […]

Dec 28 2018 — Calgary Herald — Freedom Conservative Party Leader Derek Fildebrandt says Jason Kenney’s leadership campaign broke election rules by failing to properly report in-kind donations. The UCP says the issue was an “honest oversight” and the donations in question, worth about $283, weren’t deliberately concealed. Fildebrandt, a former UCP member, said he hosted and paid for a leadership campaign […]

Dec 27 2018 — Rob Breakenridge — Calgary Herald — It is undeniable that a deep sense of frustration has settled in across Alberta, and it’s unlike any we’ve seen in at least a generation. It seems to have gone beyond mere frustration with the current federal government and the legal impasse over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project and morphed into a broader disillusionment […]