And the winner, with 53.2% of the vote, is… Peter Lougheed. In a photo finish, Alberta’s first PC Premier has been crowned as Canada’s best Premier, defeating Ontario’s Premier for much of the 19th Century, Oliver Mowat. Lougheed won a wild battle with Tommy Douglas in the first round, before knocking off Ed Schreyer and […]

After 10 regional contests and 14 knock-out matches, it has all come down to this. Peter Lougheed versus Oliver Mowat for the title of Canada’s Best Premier. Voting will remain open until Monday night at 11 pm Mountain time, when a winner will be crowned. The Matchup: Peter Lougheed squeaked out of the first round […]

UPDATE: The final is set. Oliver Mowat crushed Rene Levesque 602-97, while Lougheed outdid his felow Albertan 1620-1543. So it will be Lougheed versus Mowat in the final. We’ve reached the final four in the Best Premier contest. Voting remains open until 10 pm Mountain Wednesday night. Thursday I’ll post the final battle which will […]

UPDATE: And it’s Manning v. Lougheed in an all-Albertan western final In the East, Oliver Mowat and Rene Levesque won a pair of nail biters, by 4 and 6 votes respectively. They will meet in the Eastern finals. Out west, the two quarter-finals get under way today and will run until midnight on Saturday night. […]

UPDATE: At the close of voting Tuesday night, it was Mowat by 4 votes and Levesque by 6 votes in two of the closest races to date in the contest. The two men will square off in the Eastern semi. The Western quarter-finals should get rolling later today. The first round of Canada’s Best Premier […]

UPDATE: It’s Lesage over Wells by a comfortable 204-102 vote margin. Lesage will take on a prominent Cabinet Minister of his, Rene Levesque, in the quarter-finals. In the other match-up, the left wing decided to take up the Grant Devine cause this time but a late surge ended Sanjaya’s run, giving it to Ernest Manning […]

After the predictable wild ride in the Douglas/Lougheed shoot-out, I thought this would be a good time to give an update on the Best Premier contest. First, the clash of prairie titans. Lougheed and Douglas were locked in a tight battle, with Tommy holding a slight lead up until mid-afternoon today when legions of Peter […]

Two more first round matchups to vote on, as a pair of Atlantic Canadian heavyweights square off in one matchup, and two polarizing figures from the West lock horns in the other. Advancing so far are Oliver Mowatt (12), Ed Schreyer (7), Rene Levesque (16), and WAC Bennett (14). Voting for this round will close […]

UPDATE: Mowat and Schreyer cruise to easy wins. After a pair of upsets in the first two quarter-final Best Premier matchups, the favourites are certainly nervous. Today, I set up two more knock-out rounds. Voting will close Sunday morning. Oliver Mowat (12) vs. John Robarts (5) Oliver MowatOntario (1872-96)Career Highlights: As Premier, Mowat fought the […]