Baranyai: Populism overtakes pragmatism in Smith’s Alberta

Five of the brightest cities in Canada, measured in average hours of sun, reside in the triangle between Calgary, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge, Alta. So it’s mildly amusing to note Alberta’s new premier, Danielle Smith, essentially clinched the United Conservative Party leadership by vowing to tell Ottawa to stick it where the sun don’t shine.

We asked: Why are you on the CUPE picket line?

About 55,000 Ontario education workers, including about 5,000 in the London region, walked off the job Friday to back contract demands and protest a bill passed Thursday by the provincial government that imposed a new deal on them and banned a strike.