On Tuesday afternoon, Premier Danielle Smith held a news conference at the Alberta Legislature to explain her position on separation. After watching her spend 30 minutes answering questions from journalists I can say with certainty I’m as befuddled now as I was half an hour before. That might be because Smith seems just as baffled. Here is the punchline to her news…

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…

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.

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…