Don't bet the farm on a "merger" between the Progressive Conservatives and the Alberta Party as suggested in a rather peculiar recent story in Calgary's free Metro newspaper.

Metro reported late last week that a merger between the once governing PCs and the still irrelevant Alberta Party is "percolating." Alas, what their reporter was smelling probably wasn't coffee, exactly.

Still, the report is interesting, because a trial balloon was obviously being floated by someone for some reason.

Never mind the gloomy mainstream narrative -- Alberta’s New Democratic Party raised more money in the third quarter of 2016 than the Opposition Wildrose Party. 

This just in from Elections Alberta. So you don’t have to take my word for it!

While this is the first quarter since the second quarter of 2015 that the NDP has raised more money than the Wildrosers, it certainly suggests there’s lots of life in the government party yet -- no matter what all the usual suspects on the right would like you to believe.

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Progressive Conservative Party interim Leader Ric McIver has introduced a motion demanding the Alberta Legislature continue pouring more than $200 million a year into elite private schools, charter schools and home schooling schemes.

Of course, that's not quite the way McIver's motion is worded.

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What's shakin' at Athabasca University? Something is, for sure.

Yesterday at lunch hour, Athabasca U interim President Peter MacKinnon emailed all staff members of the troubled distance-education university to tell them that earlier in the day he had received an "urgent request for a teleconference" from the assistant deputy minister of advanced education.