Editorial: Premier slips up 

Wanna read something really bananas? Take a gander at what Premier Alison Redford said about Chiquita — the banana company that was fined $25 million because its former Colombian subsidiary paid a terrorist group for protection — after it announced that it would try not to use energy produced from the oilsands.

Redford said Chiquita’s attempt to boycott Alberta oil is a case of “a corporation who is concerned about environmental outcomes talking about a lower emission fuel standard, saying that that’s a concern to them.”

She goes on…

Read more (Calgary Herald)

Via Sun News:

Alberta Premier Alison Redford is entering the Chiquita banana brouhaha, saying the fruit giant’s comments about Canada’s oilsands are getting blown out of proportion and that the company is merely “concerned with environmental outcomes” and “just wants to do better.”

Fixed election law a joke

The change that Albertans are looking for — namely the transparency and democracy Premier Alison Redford spoke of before winning the Tory leadership — is not what’s being delivered.

After just weeks as premier, Redford has accumulated more flip-flops than an overbooked beach resort, but the particular broken promise we’re referring to here is that of fixed election dates.

The Tory government’s so-called fixed election date is sometime between March and May, every four years, starting in 2012. Pick a date. This is the made-in-Alberta oxymoron — a flexible fixed election date.

Read more (Calgary Herald)

Liberal MLA crosses the floor to join PC Party 

Bridget Pastoor is crossing the floor to join the Progressive Conservatives.

Pastoor, who is the MLA for Lethbridge-East, announced Monday she will now join the PC Party.

Read more (CTV News)