danielle smith

3 min read 2023-01-23 10:28:18

“Too Many Gotchas”

“Nothing to see here, move along.” – Movie trope Last week the CBC published a story saying that a staffer in Danielle Smith’s office sent a

3 min read 2023-01-16 09:35:09

“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”—Proverb, originated 1562 Did you catch all that? Premier Smith has been all over the

3 min read 2023-01-09 09:30:42

Many years ago the (then) Progressive Conservative government offered energy companies bags of money if they undertook projects the government

3 min read 2022-12-19 07:17:22

Congratulations to all of you for surviving the Smith government’s first session in the Legislature. It started on Nov 29 and ended on Dec 15 and

4 min read 2022-12-12 10:11:45

“…the folks who literally spent seven days telling us that what was written in their bill was not written in their bill [will] determine what

4 min read 2022-12-05 09:34:34

Wrecking ball: A heavy steel ball hung from a crane, used to demolish large buildings. Commonly used during the 1950s and 1960s. Considered one of

4 min read 2022-11-28 07:03:34

Lately Ms Soapbox has been thinking about how to talk to her conservative friends without falling even further down the rabbit hole of polarization.

3 min read 2022-11-14 09:40:53

The last six months have been hell and the next six months will be worse. By election day, May 29, 2023, we’ll have transitioned from Jason Kenney,

4 min read 2022-10-31 09:01:37

“There is no room for the unilateral assumption of authority in a constitutional democracy.” – Nigel Bankes, U of C emeritus professor of law,

3 min read 2022-10-25 08:27:10

In less time than it took Liz Truss to crash and burn, Danielle Smith transformed the United Conservative Party into the Libertarian Populist Party.

3 min read 2022-10-17 07:00:36

Dear UCP MLAs: I’m a constituent without an MLA because your new leader decided I don’t need one. Apparently urban issues (unlike rural issues)

3 min read 2022-10-10 09:17:45

Did anyone catch Danielle Smith’s victory speech? In it she did three things: She started to back away from her key campaign promise, the

4 min read 2022-09-27 02:29:00

Alice laughed. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I dare say you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen…’Why, sometimes

1 min read 2021-11-21 13:54:02

Jason Kenney’s keynote speech at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting yesterday didn’t amount to much more than the usual

4 min read 2021-01-15 00:33:55

Update: Shortly after this story was published, the National Post published a column by Danielle Smith, in which she said she’s decided to