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Premier Ed Stelmach got 77 per cent support in a leadership review vote by Tory delegates meeting in Red Deer, Alta.

Calgary-Egmont MLA Jonathan Denis will vote for "the boss"-- Premier Ed Stelmach--in Saturday's leadership review.

On the eve of Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership review, a new poll shows the governing Tories have sunk to their lowest popular support in 16 years, slipped to second place in Calgary and are barely fending off the Wildrose Alliance as the preferred party among decided Alberta voters.

Premier Ed Stelmach says he's ready for this weekend's mandatory leadership review -- even as he continues to take it on the chin over his government's rollout of the H1N1 vaccine.

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Rookie Edmonton MLA Fred Horne has been appointed to several committees, the most important of which is the advistory committee on health that will review major pieces of Alberta's health legistlation.

The province's cash-strapped health superboard--Alberta's largest employer -- is asking its 90,000 employees to take a two-year wage freeze, following an announcement Thursday that senior managers will forgo salary hikes during that period.

One of Premier Ed Stelmach's former leadership rivals warned PC party members Monday that it would be risky for them to force a leadership race at their upcoming convention.

Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership of Alberta's Progressive Conservatives was top of mind as elected members returned to the assembly for the fall sitting.

If you want to know what's going on in Alberta politics, don't look inside the legislative assembly.

Some Tories actually think Premier Ed Stelmach's party will dump him on Nov. 7. Others just hope it will.

Guy Smith was elected as the new president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees on October 23, 2009.

A carved-in-stone commandment for MPs came down from the mountain this week. If those wretched media ask about Alberta's fledgling Wildrose Alliance, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told his caucus, shut your trap and run away.

Alberta MLAs spend a lot of their time dealing with constituents who fall through the cracks of the provincial Workers' Compensation Board, says Liberal WCB critic Hugh MacDonald.

A spat broke out Tuesday between Tory provincial and federal politicians representing Calgary-West, underscoring divisions between Progressive Conservative and Reform factions in Alberta over the emerging Wildrose Alliance.

Premier Ed Stelmach warned small-c conservatives Tuesday that a vote for the fledgling Wildrose Alliance will split right-wing support in Alberta and is akin to casting a ballot for the Liberals.

As several Tory MLAs rallied behind Premier Ed Stelmach on Monday, former Alberta leader Ralph Klein suggested his successor will face a tough time at his party leadership review next month.

That was some nervy way for Danielle Smith to start her first weekday as leader of a party with one seat.

New Wildrose Alliance party leader Danielle Smith speaks to the crowd following her election as the new party leader.

She is what this province's Progressive Conservatives would be if the Progressive Conservatives were actually conservatives.