Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi hasn’t disappeared.  It just seems that way sometimes. After running a high-energy, anti-Danielle Smith campaign to win NDP’s leadership race last June, Nenshi’s profile dropped below the radar, a victim of waning public interest and a government flooding the zone with headline-grabbing contentious legislation.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith thinks Donald Trump is “hilarious.” Not that he is an inveterate liar or a menace to democracy or a threat to the Canadian economy — but that he is a politician who has the courage to take “bold decisions” that get people talking. And he’s a bit of a giggle while doing it. “I think he’s hilarious,” said Smith at…

Nenshi’s NDP is still a blank slate. Will the real NDP please stand up? Because I’m not sure what you look like. Come to think of it, I’m not sure the NDP itself knows what it looks like.

Alberta’s UCP government never sleeps. It is always up, always moving, always finding new things to chew on. It is the shark of Canadian politics.

To survive a leadership review at this weekend’s United Conservative Party convention, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is relying on two old adages: “dance with the one that brung you”; and “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” That’s why Smith is pandering to the same social conservatives who helped topple Jason Kenney as UCP leader (and…