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…