The Wildrose Alliance announced Tuesday that they had uncovered evidence of the Progressive Conservative Party accepting $15, 000 in campaign donations from the University of Lethbridge between March of 2004 and October of 2005.
“This is very clearly entrenched behavior from a political party that believes it is above the law,” Wildrose Deputy Leader Paul Hinman said.
“This is one example, from one university over a very short period of time. How far does this scandal go?”
The University responded to the charges stating that it was “in no way involved in any …

The Meltdown:
In a tense moment during the European sovereign debt crisis, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou told his country he would be stepping down and an interim government, with members from Papandreou’s Socialist Party and the opposition Conservative Party, would replace his government until an election could be held in February. The temporary provisional government will secure a 130 billion euro rescue package from the European Union, and begin installing new economic reforms and austerity measures.
The Greek economy is shell-shocked. Local businesses are closing across the board, auto sales are …

Premier Allison Redford announced her new cabinet last week. Redford added a number of new faces onto her team, but much of the “old guard” will still be prominent in the front seats of the legislature. “I was looking for people that were smart, innovative, were listening to Albertans, had an understanding of how Albertans were feeling about the future of their province,” said Redford during the cabinet announcement.
With almost no support coming into the first leadership ballot, and very little coming into the second, Redford didn’t have many people …

I started working for this paper around this time 20 months ago. My first assignment’s included a review of New West Theatre’s summer show, and a trip down to The Slice…

If you had the opportunity to do one of the two, either swim with dolphins or float in space, which would you choose?