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Two cheers for Don Getty, who gave Alberta the Family Day long weekend in February

Happy Family Day! The winters around here are long. T.S. Eliot may have reckoned April was the cruellest month, but anyone from Alberta knows it’s February, season of the original fake news: “Spring is coming!” Given what the Internet had turned into even before Elon Musk bought Twitter and made fake news great again, we…

by David Climenhaga February 17, 2025February 17, 2025

Crack appears in UCP’s solid front as cabinet member calls for Adriana LaGrange to be sacked as health minister

If the UCP hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal, someone’s going to have to fall on their sword

Athana Mentzelopoulos files her $1.7-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit and the stuff starts really hitting the fan

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UCP Attacks! Any old port in a storm when all the media wants to talk about is the Dodgy Contracts Scandal

Where the hell is our head of state?

In truculent statement, Danielle Smith denies any responsibility for misconduct at Alberta Health Services by government staff

Alberta Politics

Athana Mentzelopoulos’s bombshell allegations about sketchy deals at AHS pushed by officials and political staffers set off huge storm

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Did Take Back Alberta steal the 2023 Alberta provincial election for the United Conservative Party?

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Brace for more bait-and-switch: Having squeezed a few concessions out of Canada, Donald Trump will soon switch to new demands

by David Climenhaga February 4, 2025February 4, 2025

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by David Climenhaga January 12, 2025January 12, 2025

At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where’s John A. Macdonald when we need him?

by David Climenhaga November 29, 2024November 29, 2024

Two cheers for Don Getty, who gave Alberta the Family Day long weekend in February

Crack appears in UCP’s solid front as cabinet member calls for Adriana LaGrange to be sacked as health minister

If the UCP hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal, someone’s going to have to fall on their sword

Athana Mentzelopoulos files her $1.7-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit and the stuff starts really hitting the fan

Support AlbertaPolitics.ca

UCP Attacks! Any old port in a storm when all the media wants to talk about is the Dodgy Contracts Scandal

Where the hell is our head of state?

In truculent statement, Danielle Smith denies any responsibility for misconduct at Alberta Health Services by government staff

Alberta Politics

Athana Mentzelopoulos’s bombshell allegations about sketchy deals at AHS pushed by officials and political staffers set off huge storm

Did Take Back Alberta steal the 2023 Alberta provincial election for the United Conservative Party?

Who told Donald Trump’s ‘top economic advisor’ Alberta’s capital is a seething quagmire of fentanyl and disorder?

Danielle Smith declares victory in tariff imbroglio, despite her abject failure to influence Donald Trump

On eve of Groundhog Day, UCP removes Alberta Health Services board … again!

Raj Pannu, gentlemanly and scholarly leader of Alberta’s NDP from 2000 to 2004, is fondly remembered

Canadian Politics

Brace for more bait-and-switch: Having squeezed a few concessions out of Canada, Donald Trump will soon switch to new demands

Should Canada be part of the United States? Maybe that’s a good question to ask Canadians

At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where’s John A. Macdonald when we need him?

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