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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Fort McMurray’s PC MLA Don Scott says, despite a humiliating end to Premier Alison Redford’s political career, his primary focus will be on Wood Buffalo’s needs over the party’s needs.
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Like many things, optimism about a country’s course varies widely around the world. In some countries, an overwhelming majority of citizens feel like their country is on track, and in others, an equally overwhelming majority believe the opposite.
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Wild Rose MP Blake Richards will join Prime Minister Stephen Harper on his first official visit to Israel on Jan. 20.
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Last year’s civic election had a few ugly sides, the most lingering being the wedge politics that pitted Calgarian against Calgarian.
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INDIAN POLITICS
The events in India have taken a most interesting turn for gold. The one year-old political party that is anti-corruption is shaking the political foundations there.
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Premier Alison Redford won the support of 77 per cent of delegates who voted on her leadership at the Progressive Conservative party annual general meeting in Red Deer on Saturday.
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A rapprochement between the US and Iran — now possible because of the domestic political needs of both governments — would change the global strategic landscape. A strategic rapprochement between the two once-allied states, estranged since 1979, would cut a swathe through the geo-strategic reach of Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) into the Persian Gulf/Middle East, and revive the prospect of a return of the US to influence in Central Asia.
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Calgary city council is back in business and let’s hope the new council gets back to big business, instead of expensive and questionable ideological goals.
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There is little doubt that politics as we knew it in the Middle East is changing right before our very eyes and with that shift in politics will unavoidably come a change in the policies of oil, as the two go hand in hand in the region where the Arab countries have learned since the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War that oil can be a very powerful weapon.
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