If you were thinking Alberta’s politics is getting particularly crazy these days — you’d be right. I mean, how else to explain why Premier Danielle Smith was recently dabbling in the “chemtrail” conspiracy theory. If you were thinking that’s because Smith has spun out of control — you’d be wrong. Smith is very much in control. She’s just worried about staying…

Climate change comes for Jasper Everybody has a Jasper story. In the aftermath of the July wildfire that ripped through Jasper National Park and the Jasper townsite, people from around the world shared theirs.

After his overwhelming victory to become Alberta’s opposition NDP leader in June, Naheed Nenshi abruptly turned into something of a political Bigfoot. There were few sightings of him as he all but disappeared into a summer of backyard barbecues and backroom party confabs with members. Last week, he reemerged.

Too soon? Is it too soon after the devastating fire that ripped through Jasper last week, creating a human tragedy and an ecological disaster, to talk about the fraught politics of wildfires in Alberta? The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) didn’t think so.

The UCP vs. Alberta’s riding map. It’s the most contentious issue in Alberta politics that we’re not talking about. I give you Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission, which every eight years or so erases and redraws the province’s political ridings like a five-year-old playing with an Etch A Sketch.