Let me take a few moments out of my Antipodean sojourn to make a couple of observations about Danielle Smith’s fairy tale about how the Government of Alberta lacks the funds to give the province’s ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith poked the top of her head out of the hole she’d dug for herself yesterday and announced her government has momentarily “paused” the book ban she insists isn’t a book ban ...

Sorry, we’re closed … sort of (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Alberta Premier Danielle Smith poked the top of her head out of the hole she’d dug for herself ...

Larry Booi in 2010; he was president of the ATA in 2002 when the last strike took place (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Starting tomorrow, with the Labour Day holiday behind us and another school year ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith strikes a pose and sees … Quebec! (Photo: Government of Alberta/Flickr). It didn’t take Danielle Smith long to start complaining about Quebec when someone challenged her ...

Premier Danielle Smith and her education and finance ministers spent much of the day yesterday digging themselves deeper into the holes they started with their it’s-not-a-book-ban ban on books and ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at her news conference about health care ID, where the topic of book bans came up, yesterday (Photo: Government of Alberta Flickr). Premier Danielle Smith and her ...

Canadian author Margaret Atwood being interviewed by media on the picket line during the Calgary Herald strike in 1999 – she doesn’t mind speaking out in support of a good cause (Photo: Herald Strike ...

Finance Minister Nate Horner spells out the bad news about Alberta’s growing deficit this morning (Photo: Government of Alberta/Flickr). Was it mere coincidence Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner ...

Premier Danielle Smith and her education and finance ministers spent much of the day yesterday digging themselves deeper into the holes they started with their it’s-not-a-book-ban ban on books and ...

Rosatom’s Akademik Lomonosov, dubbed by some the “floating Chernobyl,” may be the world’s only working small modular reactor (Photo: TASS).

According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the $100 her government intends to charge most Albertans who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is just an “administration fee” to cover the current ...