Our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, has a big fan in Alison Redford, Premier Of Alberta, who has been visiting Obama to lobby on behalf of the pipeline.
Premier Alison Redford said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that the issue would keep coming up. Redford is in Washington for her fourth trip to lobby on behalf of a pipeline that Canada sees as critical to its economic well-being.
The Alberta Premier's nuanced position on carbon pricing
This is the second post in a three-part series. For Part 1, Parsing Redford's Little Black Lies, click here.
As Alberta Premier Alison Redford tries her best to hoodwink American politicians into believing Alberta is leading the way on climate change, it’s worth considering where the problems lie and how they might be addressed. Show More Summary
This is the first post in a three-part series. For Part 2, How Redford Can Walk the Walk, click here.
Within weeks of becoming Alberta’s first female premier in October 2011, Alison Redford realized that the tired old propaganda about...Show More Summary
Within weeks of becoming Alberta’s first female premier in October 2011, Alison Redford realized that the tired old propaganda about jobs and Canada’s reputation as a safe and friendly supplier of oil weren’t helping in the battle over...Show More Summary
Yesterday, Gary Doer, Canada's Ambassador to the United States, made headlines when he stated that:
"If you ask the question: Do you want your oil from (Venezuelan President) Hugo Chavez or (Alberta Premier) Alison Redford, I think I...Show More Summary
Ezra finds it unbelievable that Alberta Premier Alison Redford can’t balance the province’s budget. This report aired on The Source January 25 2013....
Alberta Premier Alison Redford is unimpressed. Redford said such an arrangement would be a...
Greenpeace Rejected Billboard.png After a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline spilled between 160,000 and 480,000 liters of oil into Jackson Creek near the Red Deer River in Alberta this month, premier Alison Redford called the incident...Show More Summary
LGBT advocates in Ablerta, Canada are thrilled that Progressive Conservative Alison Redford will be the first sitting Alberta premier to address Edmonton's Pride Parade on June 9, the Edmonton Journal reports: “It’s quite significant,” said Colleen Sutherland, co-chair of the...
Alberta MLAs, and Premier Alison Redford, are already the highest paid in Canada, should they give themselves another raise? Ezra Levant speaks to Joan Crockatt. This segment aired on The Source May 3 2012....
I wrote earlier this week about some lessons I hoped BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark would take from the experience of Alberta PCPremier Alison Redford, who was able to win election and beat back a threat on her
right by moving to the centre and appealing to progressive voters. Show More Summary
Monday is a once-in-a-lifetime election in Alberta — literally. You’d have to be 63 to be old enough to have voted in the last Alberta election that the PCs didn’t win. In this space I have made the case...
Well, that didn’t take long. After Alberta Premier Alison Redford promised a few days ago to run a positive campaign, this tweet from one of her staffers regarding Redford’s chief political opponent Danielle Smith from the Wildrose Party, Amanda Wilkie … Continue reading ?
VANCOUVER – When you are two or three time zones away from Ottawa — as B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford are most days — it is easy to dismiss the place. From this distance, Ottawa isn’t just insular and puffed up with its own importance. When you are thousands of kilometres away, [...]
From The Source, Dec. 21, 2011: Danielle Smith from the Wildrose Party presents the pro-Canada, pro-oilsands position to oppose Alberta Premier Alison Redford's weak stance....
Alison Redford is the new leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and will be sworn in on Friday as Alberta’s 14th Premier. She pulled off a stunning upset of her chief rival in this year’s leadership race against … Continue reading ?