Danielle Smith

Jonathan on December 17th, 2009

I have only ever been in a room with Premier Ed Stelmach on a few occasions.  All of them were leadership related, he was running, winning or holding on to it.  On the other hand I was introduced to Premier Ralph Klein once, talked briefly with him at a function and was with him on an [...]

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Jonathan on November 9th, 2009

Betty Unger the PC Senator in waiting is quoted by Jason Fekete of the Calgary Herald: “(Wildrose Alliance) certainly have got a good leader. In terms of politicians, you could say she’s a superstar. She really is.” (bold added) As the postmortem of the PC convention continues they are still worried about the Alliance, and [...]

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Jonathan on November 7th, 2009

Stelmach got what he wanted, 77.4 % support.   Honestly though the big winner was in Calgary. The Wildrose Alliance was happy to sit on the sidelines during the PC leadership review.  However, you know they are smiling now.  A tepid review for Stelmach leaves him in and disastified Tories swimming against the current. Guy Boutilier [...]

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Jonathan on October 19th, 2009

Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith was in the public eye in the morning in a press conference held in Calgary. See here for Global Calgary’s coverage of the event, almost whole. Early impressions from me: Danielle is relaxed in front of the media and gives very intelligent answers without needing crib notes.  I think that [...]

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Almost two years ago on March 4 2008 after the Alberta provincial election sent the Progressive Conservatives back to the Legislature with a stronger majority and with the Wildrose Alliance wiped out. I wrote at that point on Project Alberta on why I think these things happened the way they did and I want to [...]

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