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Alberta Politics
at a Glance

Week ending 30 Jun 2010 Vol 24, No 42

Feature Article: An impressive convention serves notice to other parties that the Wildrose Alliance is for real. (Wildrose Alliance convention - video of Danielle Smith's keynote speech, 17:40 running time).

Also in this week's edition:

The WA is a grassroots party but has connections with various non-grassroots groups.

2. Legislature Speaker Ken Kowalski becomes a political target.

3. A battle over funding of party caucuses in the legislature has suddenly become more complicated.

4. A legislature committee's review of minimum wage policy threatens to mushroom into a broad look at poverty issues. (Standing committee on the economy, Written submissions on minimum wage policy, Transcript of the committee's June 23 public hearing in Calgary, PDF, 624 KB)

5. Slow progress on a review of municipal utility fees.

6. A government department loses all its assistant deputy ministers.

7. The Progressive Conservative party decides it needs a full-time spokesman.

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