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Despite the drama inflaming the Alberta PCs, Jason Kenney continues to hurtle toward the party leadership—and a potential merger

For the first time, Jason Kenney will leave a leader’s side to go to Alberta, where he’ll try to emulate a throwback premier

It didn’t happen overnight. Inside the unravelling of the longest-serving provincial regime in the history of Confederation

Exit Alberta’s beleaguered premier

The Globe and Mail, by means of outstanding spadework, has accounted for the particulars of all of the $430,000 donated to the Alberta Progressive Conservative party in its hour of electoral need by Edmonton Oilers owner and pharmacy magnate Daryl Katz. Actually, David Ebner and Dawn Walton traced the $430,000 and then some—others with close business relationships to Katz, it turns out, contributed to the PC kitty. But even the $430,000 donated this spring, supposedly in the form of a single cheque, represents more than a quarter of the cash raised by the Tories during the 2012 election period. The party managed to raise just $1.6 million—while spending almost $4.7 million protecting its flanks from the upstart Wildrose Party.

NDP leader Brian Mason’s first words on reaching the podium? “The phone booth just doubled!”

The PCs carried 61 of 87 seats

The message of a third-party video making the rounds is ‘Vote PC, even if you don’t want to’

The early days of the Alberta election showcase the Wildrose tacticians at their best

The dearth of attack ads in recent Alberta politics is testimony to its one-party nature