Happy Groundhog Day, Premier Danielle Smith! Is springtime in Alberta just around the corner, or do Albertans have to put up with six more weeks of Finance Minister Nate Horner?  Today's blog post is an encore presentation of Mark McCourt's kick-ass Guest Column  last week in the Western Standard: "Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open, and... may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public off

In flagrant disregard of experts who warn that switching from an at-fault auto insurance system to no-fault tends to result in more dead people  on the roads, Premier Danielle Smith  has yet to scrap CINO  Finance Minister Nate Horner's destructive plan to impose on Albertans a no-fault auto insurance scheme starting January 1, 2027. Jason Kenney , who was replaced as Premier by Smith in 2022, alerted Albertans that year that " the lunatics are trying to take over the asylum

Winter in Alberta isn’t just a season. It’s a force of nature. The snow falls heavy, the ice creeps across the roads, and visibility can vanish in an instant. Every drive becomes a battle against black ice, blizzards, and reckless drivers who think they’re invincible.    At McCourt Law Offices, we know the dangers lurking on Alberta’s winter roads. No matter how cautious you are, the reality is harsh, accidents happen. And when they do, you need someone in your corner who und

Today's blog post, which was published as a Guest Column in the Western Standard last week, was written by McCourt Law Offices  firm founder and principal counsel Mark McCourt , who also authored the recent Edmonton Journal Guest Column, " Alberta should take the off-ramp on Care-First auto insurance ". Earlier this year, the UCP government rammed through the legislative assembly a no-fault auto insurance bill  under which Albertans would see their rates rise and rights remo