Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean keeps saying he's got a better plan to unite Alberta's right than Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney's much-publicized double reverse hostile takeover of the two Alberta conservative parties.

"I think that our plan is, quite frankly, much more palatable to both sets of members," Jean told a reporter last week. The trouble is, as the reporter went on to explain, the Opposition leader "provided few details."

Is the second Wildrose caucus on the verge of the second Wildrose civil war?

The Edmonton Journal’s report yesterday morning on the mysterious break-in and computer thefts at the Wildrose Party’s Edmonton headquarters and the equally mysterious appearance of Wildrose membership lists in the hands of operatives for Jason Kenney’s Progressive Conservative leadership campaign contained one intriguing tidbit missed when AlbertaPolitics.ca broke the story.

The question must now be asked: Were the attacks by Saskatchewan's premier over the past year and a half on the policies of Alberta’s NDP government just an interprovincial rivalry with an ideological tilt, or were they made in return for more than $2-million in donations from Alberta corporations reported Tuesday by an Edmonton-based progressive advocacy group?

I'm not sure why the Notley Government has given us so little information about Corey Hogan, whose appointment to the important job of managing director of the Alberta Public Affairs Bureau was so tersely announced Tuesday.

Based on the government’s news release, published late in the afternoon on Tuesday, available facts were quite thin on the ground — the release included two sentences and 45 words. That’s if you don't count the uninformative seven-word headline: "Government makes changes at senior official level."