Try as she might, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has discovered she can’t keep a lid on a brewing scandal threatening her government. It is boiling over into something of a political mutiny. Not enough of a mutiny at this point to capsize Smith’s leadership, but an insurrection nonetheless. In Alberta Conservative politics, premiers tend to be brought down by party…

When Finance Minister Nate Horner tabled Alberta’s provincial budget in the assembly on Thursday afternoon, he and every other government MLA should have been wearing a neck brace. And maybe two for Premier Danielle Smith. This is a government suffering from brutal whiplash. After spending the past two years promising Albertans she would not run a deficit budget, Smith has delivered one…

I have no idea if Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has ever taken dancing lessons but, boy, can she tap dance. During a news conference in Calgary on Wednesday, she did her best to verbally pirouette around journalists’ questions into a brewing scandal threatening her government over allegations of wrongdoing in health procurement contracts. Smith reiterated she has done nothing wrong, stands by…

In terms of name or face recognition, he’s not exactly the Wayne Gretzky of Edmonton politics. Mark Carney’s return to Edmonton on Thursday to launch his campaign for leadership of the federal Liberals didn’t exactly have people dancing in the streets. In fact, as a local CityNews reporter Sean Amato discovered, people in the streets don’t know who Carney is.

Look out Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is on a roll. Her political nemesis, Justin Trudeau, is stepping down. Her political ally, “scrap-the-tax” Pierre Poilievre, seems destined to become prime minister. And “drill-baby-drill” Donald Trump will move back into the White House on Jan. 20.