Winners to be announced virtually June 9 at a free online event.
After promising a full-fledged public consultation on his widely condemned plans to open up the Rockies to Australian miners, the premier has now told Albertans that the review won’t include anything that matters like water and land use. Coal mining will be the only subject.
Breaking promises and betraying Albertans appear to be constant themes of Kenney’s government. Its coal saga is a prime example.
In 2017, the aspiring premier vowed to “get the Alberta government out of the business of business. because when politicians are risking your money instead of their own, you might as well send them to the casino. I mean, they have no incentive to get it right.”
The Man behind Stephen Harper
The new Conservative Party has tasted success and wants majority rule. If Tom Flanagan and his Calgary School have their way, they’ll get it without compromising their principles
May 1, 2020 - by Marci McDonaldMarci McDonald Updated 9:44, May. 1, 2020 | Published 4:22, Oct. 12, 2004This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
Eamon Mac Mahon The Calgary school has drawn attention from US intellectuals for creating “a new form of nationalism that in turn is changing the terms of debate in English Canada.”
Consternation rumbled across the country like an approaching thunderhead. For aboriginal leaders, one of their worst nightmares appeared about to come true. Two weeks before last June’s federal election, pollsters were suddenly predicting that Conservative leader Stephen Harper might pull off an upset and form the next government. What worried many in First Nations’ circles was not Harper himself
We took our time doing it thoroughly, Knopff said in an email to CBC News. We were to prioritize substantially accomplished people, but to be skeptical of simple celebrity. It was to be a capstone appointment for a fully developed career, not a mid-life stepping-stone appointment, Knopff said. Judgment and temperament were key.
Knopff s six-member committee was chaired by longtime public servant and secretary to the governor general Sheila-Marie Cook. Other members included Kevin MacLeod, who was Canadian secretary to the Queen, along with historians and political scientists.
Christopher McCreery, private secretary to the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia and one of the committee members, wrote in the book