A Premier without a seat? If Jim Prentice wins, what’s next?

If Jim Prentice, the putative front-runner, does win the Progressive Conservative leadership next month, will he automatically become premier? Or does he have to wait until he wins a seat and can lead his party in the Legislative Assembly?

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Western Provinces Say They Badly Need Temporary Foreign Workers

IQALUIT, Nunavut – Western provinces have a genuine, pressing need for skilled labour and the federal government’s recent overhaul of its temporary foreign worker program goes too far, the interim Alberta premier said Thursday.

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