Gary Mar
Pray for Alberta’s Mar-tyr to probity
When Alison Redford suspended Gary Mar as head of the Alberta Hong Kong Office and summoned him home last week, it looked a little like a settling of scores between the premier and the man she narrowly edged out in October’s PC leadership battle. Mar had enjoyed the support of a crushing majority of the PC caucus, amidst whose ranks Redford found exactly one (1) backer not named Alison Redford. Giving Mar the Hong Kong job looked like a graceful and generously-compensated way of ushering him out of the drama of Alberta politics. And when he presented a pretext for genuine retaliation, she was not slow to seize upon it.
Alberta’s old boys’ club elects a new premier
Alison Redford sings from the Tory hymnal, but her Calgary business connections confirm her liberalism
Alberta’s October surprise
The appearance of a coronation undid the front-runner in the race to lead Alberta’s Perpetual Governing Party
Newsmakers: Sept. 15-22
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Wanted in Alberta: one premier
As the PC party soars again in the polls, a gang of potential leaders is scrambling for the top job