Campaign Financing

Even by the dubious standards of Alberta politics at the time, it was still a brazen move. Tom Brown, an executive with Ledcor, was part of a coalition of construction companies that donated [...]

Let’s say I buy you a drink—coffee or wine, your choice. You might feel grateful, you might not; you might think you would have picked a better café. Now let’s say you’re thirsty and broke, and I [...]

Just before election day 2004, as I was wrapping up a quixotic campaign for alderman in Calgary, the envelope arrived. My campaign manager and I stared at the cheque inside. It wasn’t big—only [...]