“Alberta opens its third world-class recovery community,” said the headline on a news release sent by the Alberta Government to media yesterday about a reopened rural addiction treatment facility off the beaten path west of Edmonton.
After being subjected to some gentle mockery on social media, the headline on the government website soon read: “Alberta opens another world-class recovery community” – its third, presumably.
Regardless of the unintentionally amusing headline, the “Lakeview Recovery Community” in the village of Gunn across Lac Ste. Anne from Alberta Beach is clearly intended to be a showpiece for the United Conservative Party’s controversial “Alberta Recovery Model” of drug addiction treatment.
Despite grave concerns by many addiction treatment professionals and experts, the UCP “recovery model” is the only model accepted by the Smith Government – a matter of both ideology and practical politics, since “recovery communities” lend themselves to privatized operation and nobody wants to have to face the human evidence of the drug addiction crisis plaguing every jurisdiction in North America.
As a result, harm reduction approaches to drug dependency have been declared ideologically and politically verboten by the UCP as it lavishes many millions of dollars on 11 new recovery camps like the Lakeview Recovery Community, the huge Recovery Alberta agency now being spun off from Alberta Health Services, and the so-called Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence, the addictions war room established to produce research that justifies the government’s one-track approach to addiction treatment.
Whether the Gunn facility, upgraded at a cost to taxpayers of $21 million on the site of a ramshackle dry-out centre for homeless people that was closed by the government in 2021, turns out to be a glowing success or a Potemkin village will likely to be difficult to tell – it’s not as if the UCP is going to admit it if it turns out to be a bust.
Still, some of the claims in yesterday’s rambling news release are difficult to believe, for example, the implication that many clients can be returned to their communities ready to resume productive lives after three months in a recovery camp.
“At each of the recovery communities built by Alberta’s government, clients participate in a program that averages around three months long,” the news release says. “If necessary for their success in recovery, a client could stay for up to one year.”
“With 75 designated treatment beds on site, the Lakeview Recovery Community is expected to support up to 300 people every year in their pursuit of recovery,” the statement said. The facility opened to clients on July 29.
According to the release, the Lakeview site will be operated by ROSC Solutions Group Inc., a private company established in 2022 that has offices in Calgary.
It will also be home to something called the Recovery Training Institute of Alberta, a government financed centre for training addiction treatment workers according to the precepts of the UCP’s favoured recovery model.
“Alberta’s government is creating a workforce of people who are well-educated and trained in the sector,” says the release, which may come as a surprise to the drug treatment professionals employed by AHS, which Premier Smith and Addiction Minister Dan Williams seem determined to keep as far as possible away from influencing how Alberta responds to the addiction crisis.
The Chief Executive Officer of ROSC Solutions is Carson McPherson, former CEO of Cedars Cobble Hill, a 75-bed abstinence-based residential addiction treatment centre on Vancouver Island.
Dr. McPherson has a degree called a D.SocSci, Doctor of Social Science, granted by Royal Roads University near Victoria, one of only two North American universities that offer the credential.
Dr. McPherson is credited with coining the term “Alberta Recovery Model” in an Edmonton Journal op-ed published in 2020, in which he touted the UCP’s approach – although not without conceding that “supervised consumption sites can and should have a place in a full continuum of care when operated properly and embraced by the community.” That’s enough caveats, presumably, to satisfy the UCP.
According to researcher Euan Thomson, who took a deep dive into ROSC’s business relationship with the Alberta Government on his Drug Data Decoded policy website, Dr. McPherson is a former associate of Marshall Smith, the current chief of staff to Premier Danielle Smith.
Marshall Smith is widely recognized as the chief advocate and virtual spiritual leader of the government’s controversial approach to recovery treatment.
“Cedars had previously employed Marshall Smith as its Director of Corporate Development and Community Relations, fresh off his controversial stint at Baldy Hughes in Prince George,” wrote Dr. Thomson, a PhD microbiologist who is sharply critical of the Alberta Recovery Model. “McPherson and Marshall Smith also worked together at the BC Centre on Substance Use.”
An internal report by the B.C. Government drafted in 2011 suggested the Baldy Hughes drug treatment facility was mismanaged during Mr. Smith’s tenure.
Mr. Smith left B.C. to become chief of staff to former UCP associate minister of mental health Jason Luan, who lost his seat in the 2023 election.
Bill Caldwell, identified in yesterday’s news release as the director of the Recovery Training Institute of Alberta, was director of community care and director of strategy and social projects at Cedars Cobble Hill.
Meanwhile, Katy Merrifield, former executive director of communications to UCP premier Jason Kenney and director of communications for B.C.’s last conservative “Liberal” premier, Christy Clark, will soon return to Alberta to run the addictions war room’s communications and engagement side.
Like many things, the UCP and Smith have strong opinions about addictions recovery which they feel we are entitled to. Although tiresome, it wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t involve spending a good amount of public money on questionable initiatives. Of course being conservatives, they do make sure this is funded, perhaps by reducing spending on other approaches to addictions recovery.
One thing the UCP is generally better at is communications, so a good amount of money will also be spent on convincing us how well their approach is working, whether it is or not. However, most of their better communications staff must have still been on summer holidays, otherwise that line about the third world class facility wouldn’t have slipped out.
So ironically while the UCP doesn’t generally let the facts get in the way of their arguments, the truth does sometimes slip our anyways.
You don’t know the half of it. Over a dozen years ago, vast resources were directed toward a program designed to literally alter the perceptions of the population of Alberta with regard to “addiction”, in order to convince people to acccept the US “addictions” grift. It was the brainchild of one of our benevolent plutocratic overlords and their charitable foundation. It involved the usual suspects from the United States, as well as shameless academics from Alberta universities and the Alberta Government. At the end of the day, the use and abuse of psychoactive substances is a human behaviour that reflects all of the internal and external conditions and systems that are involved in all human behaviour. The attempt to characterize a vast scope of behaviours as a single pathology is kooky in the utmost. Which is why it’s a golden goose like so many other phenomena rooted in the human condition, a condition that includes greed and superstition.
Forced treatment has been shown to fail. It’s medically and scientifically proven to not work. The UCP’s ideology runs over the evidence. Dan Williams is someone that shouldn’t be dealing with this. What’s with these Conservatives and booze? Ralph Klein, Devin Dreeshen, and Dan Williams, to name a few.
Anonymous My brother in-law voluntarily flew the government plane for Lougheed and Getty in his spare time and never got paid a dime. Without any problems.
He only did it once for Klein. He took a group of them to Calgary and they promised to be back at the plane by 12 midnight because he had to be at work by 8:00 am. He was an Air Traffic Controller . They never showed up until 3:00 am and were so drunk he literally had to drag them onto the plane, and he refused to ever do it again, can you blame him?
Alan K. Spiller: I remember when B.C premier, Gordon Campbell got busted for drunk driving. My dad was telling me that he was following Ralph Klein’s example. While I don’t ever recall Ralph Klein drinking and driving, I know he did have a big problem with alcohol. It’s doubtful that he quit drinking.
Anonymous: The scuttlebutt at the time was that Mr. Klein had indeed not quit drinking, but that he’d agreed to quite drinking in public. Literally the last time I spoke with Ralph was two or three days before his drunken shelter incident, and he was plastered. Peter Elzinga took him in hand, ended his conversation with me, and led him out. DJC
Klein was annhilated most of the time, and beat his intimate partners regularly. This was well-known among Great Calgarians™. Klein’s total degeneracy made him an ideal front-man for the conversion of Alberta into a cash machine for elite grifters, producing private fortunes from privatization in a trend that is only accelerating.
Murphy: I’m letting this stand for two reasons. (1) I have heard all of the same things from similar sources. (2) In law, you can’t libel the dead. Readers should take care with such comments, however, when they expose the proprietor or themselves to the risk of defamation suits. Even when I believe such comments to be true, without receipts I will normally censor them mercilessly. DJC
Ahhh I missed lil merry Katie, author of such famous Xitter posts as this response to “Brian w. Eanie” pointing out the yuge number of Kenney poster-bots: “Many thanks for that compelling observation, you sad, sexist, basement-dwelling, mouth breather.” Katie’s natural eloquence and command of the language will definitely help whatever grifter pays her. (Yes, I have the receipts)
Any thinking person knows the Alberta Recovery Model is a failure of monumental proportions before it even gets out of the gate. That aside, how is it the women in the ribbon cutting photo, as odious as they are, know enough to show up well dressed while the men folk show up in their raggedy ass jeans? Do these clowns not own a tie or dress pants or are they attempting to impress the rural base by showing up in their “dungarees”? You know, men of the people, a fata morgana if ever there was one.
JE: Raggedy ass jeans on men are part of our unique Alberta culture, don’t you know? DJC
Maybe “women in jeans” is too anti-family and might cause UCP males to explode, dunno. After all, you want them at home, cooking and preggers! God bless and amen to that.
I have no words, Dude. DJC
Damn dog stole my phone.
Women must wear dresses or skirts at all times if the UCP is to Take Alberta Backwards on schedule, obviously.
First, it starts with pronouns in schools. Next, little girls will be forced to wear skirts and dresses to school in the winter, even in -40°C. They will be allowed to wear snow pants under their skirts and dresses, of course, because frostbite, but the snow pants must be removed in a dedicated cloak room upon entering the school, because pants on females are vulgar and must never breach the sanctity of the classroom. Never again will exceptions be made for extreme weather, because pants in winter are the gateway drug to pants anytime. Just like in the 1960s and earlier!
It might be a little tougher to pass regulations requiring skirts and dresses for adult women wishing to enter a restaurant, but what was done in the past can be done again. Forget about those pantsuits, ladies, because that is how this whole women-in-pants thing exploded. Men wear the pants. any questions?
Anyone with addiction s between 16 and 35 should not give their name to these harmers ,after one treatment,they will doom you to death
I could understand raggedy ass jeans if these boys toiled in the fields or factories. I bet these boys go for mani-pedis on a regular basis.
Never mind what they are wearing. There is something really creepy about them all giggling as they open a facility to house serious damaged people. I guess they are happy that Shane Getson has been rewarded for his slavish devotion to “the cause.”
It’s hard to take seriously any employee with a history of drinking alcohol on the job, especially if the employee is a politician giving a speech in the legislature. On the one hand, guzzle beer, the cheaper the better! Let it pour out the sides of your mouth and dribble down your chin! Drink beer at 7-11, in front of children, on free Slurpee day! (Lest we forget, didn’t someone from the UCP who held a cabinet portfolio keep a styrofoam cooler in the office? Klassy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/devin-dreeshen-drinking-allegations-alberta-ucp-1.6237656) On the other hand, whatever this is. Is it an all-inclusive resort?
My wife, who is an LPN and has been name dropped in these pages, is heavily involved in harm reduction in her spare time. She gets what you could call “insider” information on what’s happening in the community. Such as when the UCP makes a claim that a new centre with x amount of beds is in the works and it turns out to be complete bunk…sure sounds nice when our compliant Alberta media breaths life into the lie. Make no mistake about it, when it comes to addictions this government is 110% ideologically driven with zero focus on the human cost, only dollar signs in their eyes.
700 treatment spots hey, so like 1/3 of the people who died from drug poisoning in 2023 and the other two thirds what ? Go die ?
There were more drug deaths just in EDMONTON in 2023, and by all accounts it’s much worse out there this year.
One thing is certain, while the UCP uses this as an excuse to stuff cash into the pockets of their well connected friends, alberta Will lead the country in drug deaths, all of which are ultimately preventable. They are CHOOSING to let people die; consciously , and without conscience.
What a disgusting gang of reactionary kleptocrats
It is really amazing to see Dingy Smith and beer boy glowing at the opening at a recovery centre, when just the other day they had on the news a story of a man that had cancer and waited 11 weeks and died without even seeing an oncologist or getting any treatment at all. Where is Smith and our health minister? Obviously they don’t want to talk about their ongoing failures!
Who dressed the men in the photo? Saggy jeans dressed up by adding a suit jacket? The new UCP style? What’s the message to Albertans??
No, its a not so uncommon practice, in the 80s when politicians were meeting with people who were not at their financial level. They wanted to appear “similar”, like one of the people. Those UPC types are so out of date and stupid.
The legislation for “compassionate intervention” aka forced treatment will likely be introduced this fall. That should make the upcoming Bill of Rights amendments an interesting
discussion. Anti vaxxers want bodily autonomy for themselves but not for persons who are addicted and certainly not for people who want to choose their own pronouns.
Gunn. Gunn? Really? I didn’t even know anyone actually lived there. Gunn Esso is where we used to stop for gas on the way to Edmonton – and to switch drivers.
You see, before Highway 43 was twinned all the way between Grande Prairie & Edmonton, the divided highway began (or ended, depending on your perspective) at Gunn. My wife hates being a passenger on the highway, but refused to drive in Edmonton. So she’d drive the four or so hours from GP to Gunn, then I’d take over and drive into the city. Coming back we’d do the reverse.
But neither of us has ever left the highway to see what else is in Gunn besides the Esso. Who knew there was a substance abuse treatment facility there this whole time?!?
At this point, I supposed any methodology to deal with addiction is worth trying, even the ones that don’t work. In the end, who really cares about addicts? It’s not like they are perceived as voters, so why should anyone pay attention to their plight? Are they an ideological football that gets kicked around and exploited? Definitely.
DC; Your headline photo reminds us of the cast of the first season of “The Walking Dead”! The next round is on us!
$21,000,000 – that’s a lot of zeros. 300 clients (that word even makes me cringe) per year. Is my math correct to say $70,000 per client? Of course it’s a multi year project but there’s also all those administrators, directors etc. I would bet my bottom dollar that very few of those head honchos will live in the community. (remember the Athabasca University uproar).
I will grudgingly admit that this recovery model could be one of the tools in the drug addictions strategy. I wish as much money and effort would be placed on harm reduction and more social services to assist those who will never take part in this boutique endeavor.
Well, I will bet you that there will be no post treatment surveys of outcomes for clients. Why? Models like this where people are taken out of their home communities for treatment have a higher recidivism rate, than treatment in situ. The therapy – good or bad – vanishes upon leaving the treatment centre. The client more often than not returns to his old associates. With no supports in the home setting the person returns to their addictive behaviours.
For an interesting upside down example of this look up the literature on Vietnam who on their return home lost their heroin addiction because they no longer had access to the associates who supported their addiction. I am a retired social worker, and addiction is a complex issue.
Given the UCP’s bizarro fixation on alcohol, drinking it, and drinking on the job, I wonder if there was an open bar at the after party? Appearances aside, the UCP doesn’t care about appearances. Serious people? Really?
You know, there was an old joke, many years ago, about why Canadians joined political parties. Tories, it was said, joined to get drunk. Liberals joined to get lucky. New Democrats, of course, joined to get leaflets. Do you think there might have been something to that? Given what you’ve said about the Conservatives and what I know about the NDP, I’d say this was at least two-thirds right.
Cool — little bit of homework and lil’ Katy is fond of ‘gushing’ on X over :
> best boyfriend -Mo Amir
>best boss- Jason Kenny
>new leader of the BC Liberals, Kevin Falcon
>BC Premier Christie Clark
>X Jenni Byrne –311,958 Canadians joined the CPC through the pierre4pm.ca membership website>>X Katy
50,709 new memberships in BC
This number is unprecedented….
( reminds me of that 60’s song – who put the bop ,or something like that, not sure)
>BC UNITED MLA Ellis Ross
>***CPC Star Candidate Alert***
–Sabrina Maddeaux
>Celebrating recovery with @Kevin Sabet and BC’s hotshot urban mayor Brad West
>Me(selfie)moderating a panel at the @canstrongfree conference last week , looking as friendly and approachable as ever.
>reposting: {Danielle Smith .. We all know Calgary is a world class city , but now the rest of the world is catching on…June 27……}
Katy—-“Looking forward to calling Calgary home this fall. ”
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Now it’s probably just complete coincidence , but I would not knowingly get on the same plane as her—-just saying!!
BTW– my favorite was …Katy-X
“Fantastic to have @Laureen Harper welcome the enormous crowd @UCPAGM2019. Her message on Premier Kenny —
“he’ll never let you down”
#ableg.”
Let’s see…forced incarceration of vulnerable people in a remote, out-of-the-way facility with treatment by people with questionable credentials. What could possibly go wrong?
Expat: Not that remote. It would be an easy hitchhike to Edmonton, if you could get anyone to stop and pick you up. But it’s certainly off the beaten path, on the wrong side of the lake. DJC
Yes, what could go wrong Its the involuntary part. At one time there was something like it in B.C. but it was for people determined to be mentally ill, unstable, etc. Two doctors signatures and there you were in essondale/riverview. There was more than one wife who wound up there. Cheaper than a divocrce. Unruly kid, just threaten them with that. Became aware of it by reading the Vancouver Sun’s column by Jack Wasserman. He wrote the “night life/saloon” column. Every now and then he’d write about some thing which bothered him, like the above, back street abortions, etc. Eventually that law was removed.
Placing some one in one of these “drunk tanks” for 90 days is not going to work. People will kill themselves. There will be sexual assaults by other “patients” and “staff”. This program appears to be implemented by a bunch of European descent whites with a christian religious bent. Where is the culturally sensitive portion of this? We are a multi cultural country with a number of ethnic groups and religions. The white “boys” chrisitan nationalist routine won’t go down with others. If its a 13 step program, how are the atheists supposed to deal with it.
They’re going to train staff on site? Ah now we will have the blind leading the blind. Do we even know who will “train” for these jobs and what the prerequists are. Usually I’d think at
a min. people would need to be have psychriatic nurses training or a degree in psychology. I’ve got a feeling they’ll just take any bible pounder who comes along. I can see jobs being offered to some of those evangelical ministers and their followers. Yes what could go wrong. /building these facilities in the middle of nowhere isn’t going to make it easy to recruit qualified staff.
I notice there isn’t any mention of consultation with the Indigenous People. Do they plan to place Indigenous people in these facilities? What could go wrong.
Placing it in an isolated spot may have worked for the person selling them the land, but if some one decides to leave in winter, they could die in the cold, even if we have climate change. What could go wrong?
Who will inspect these places? Having read a number of articles about Riverview and Essondale there was a lot of sexual assaults, bullying, you know the regular abuse of the less powerful. It goes on in jails all the time. What are the “inmates” supposed to do? Some people will die along the way and it won’t always be the people incarcerated there.
Wonder how much the staff will be paid? If they aren’t paid at least at an R.N. level they will wind up with people who really should not be in the job. oh wait they can access temporary workers from other countries, pay them min. wage and after 3 months the people will be released.
Will there be physicians to help those detoxing? Where is the closest hospital to these “center/jails”. Some times people coming off of an addictive consumable need medical assistance which can’t not be provided in one of Smith centers.
Of course then we can look forward to the class action law suites which could run into the billions.
Can we set up a poll to see which member of government or those attached gets to buy the “centers” once UPC sells them off.
In this plan, addicted people are the product, being sold to private industry for profit. “Also Anonymous” calculated the cost for one client at $70,000, and that’s if they only stay three months. To make sure the beds are full, people can be involuntarily committed. No followup to see if the centres cause long term help or harm, either. Short term profit for their buddies.
What a tangled web they weave, only qualification for employment seems to be past watercooler associations. In all this nepotism, is it possible Jason Kenney’s brother and sister-in-law have slipped in under the radar, to open up a recovery centre? Seems like every other faux “therapist” that B.C. shut down, are now washing up on our shores. I think I’d rather have bituman.
Regan: Going by his LinkedIn profile, it would appear that David Kenney has re-relocated to Calgary He is listed as co-founder of something called the Emergo Academy, which says on its website that, with its help, you can “become a Certified Recovery Coach in eight weeks.” With this credential from the virtual program, the website says, you will have “epic income,” “Realize 6-figures in 6-months” and also “Create Heroic Impact with In-Demand Clients” and “Become ‘The Go To Expert’ for People in Crisis.” The other co-founder would appear to be his wife, Susan Kenney. DJC
There’s gold in them there hills
OMG, eight weeks and you’re going to make 6 figures after 6 months. What could go wrong. Will they even run a criminal record check for all their lovely students. Suspect they will just be able to go and work for the new Smith camps.
So not so much about a therapeutic relationship, but an opportunistic one. Thank you for doing the leg work, Mr. Climenhaga.
If you can bring down a six figure income in six months after only eight weeks of training wouldn’t it be best to train and certify yourself, gather in the rubes and keep those six figures for yourself? Sounds like Trump University.
Hello DJC and fellow commenters,
I have seen an untold number of articles about drug use and drug poisoning deaths, which are, clearly, a tragedy. However, I have seen very few articles that explain how people become drug users. One explanation is use of drugs to mitigate pain, and some of those using these drugs become addicted. Although this is the situation of some people, I am sue that there are other causes.
Although each person is an individual, are there any other common routes to frequent drug use and addiction? Are there any ways to minimize the number of people who end up in this situation? I am not in favour of forced treatment, but are there ways to mitigate the factors that might be moving people towards drug use and addiction?
Childhood trauma is a common contributor to the risk of addiction, according to professional acquaintances of mine who know about these things. But it’s more complex than a simple cause & effect relationship, since not every person who grew up in an abusive home ends up addicted to substances, and not every substance abuser had a traumatic childhood.
Then there’s the undeniable fact that even occasional users of opioids are dying due to the toxic illicit drug supply – not all of the deaths are people living with an addiction.
People become drug addicts because our society creates emotionally broken people who need to self medicate to feel better about themselves.
I have nieces on both sides of the family who became addicted to crystal meth. and are still in the throes of it despite a year of treatment. In their cases, both had a strong need to feel accepted by their peers in school. Their lives fell apart when drugs entered the circle of acceptance. Having said that, I think there are many reasons as writers have described.
Hey Alberta let’s make money on our homeless addicted people. This UCP never changes. The more they do the worse it gets. I have no doubts they will be more than happy to have a profit on this. Also wait for the lawsuits when these private companies start abusing people just because it is not easy to take care of them and they want to force their views on sick people. Have we not seen this over and over?
Carlos: Forced addictions treatment has been proven by the scientific and medical experts to fail. Treating an addicted person must be done the proper way. You bet there will be lawsuits from this, once it goes backwards. Maybe the reason why Danielle Smith has that arrogant looking smirk on her face is because the UCP gets some type of financial kickback from this. The evidence on any number of matters is lost on the UCP.
This is all highly entertaining. All addiction “professionals and experts” are grifters. The Alberta model is just the same ol’ grift that is the $40 billion us “treatment” industry. Over fifty years ago a study was done by Dr. George Vaillant, an MD and professor at Harvard. It demonstrated that 12-step kookery was much more lethal than no intervention at all in substance abuse cases. The Alberta coerced treatment problem could have been nipped in the bud in 2009 when the CBC’s Fifth Estate exposed the vanguard Alberta program. A proper investigation would have revealed the links to the U.S. system. Currently there are at least two documentaries on Netflix concerning the “Troubled Teen Industry” that touch on the progenitors of the forced treatment scam that appeared in Alberta in 1991. Addictions medicine itself is pure quackery. In the us the grift was refused certification as a speciality, as accreditation required only the filling out of forms, for decades. The us scam of addictions medicine was brought north via the vector of the TTI. Rachel Notley had a golden opportunity to launch a real investigation into this scam, but after some bluster in the media and the Legislature, she backed into the bushes like Homer Simpson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lPJ9J-6vDw
The Saint Patrick’s cult from Italy, which was praised by Sixty Minutes almost forty years ago, is the model embraced by both right-wing parties in the us, and will certainly become more prevalent as the Great Homeless Junkie experiment continues on both sides of the border.
If one is genuinely interested in understanding the reality of “addictions” treatment and the “Alberta Model”, one has to start with Frank Buchman, a Pennsylvanian whose cult eventually took him to a face-to-face parlay with J. Goebbels. The Nazis found Buchman to be a bit much, but his Moral Rearmament was eventually adopted by the CIA in their efforts to counter Liberation Theology in those pesky banana-growing areas south of Florida. Bill Wilson took Buchman’s grift and ran with it, producing his 12 steps as opposed to Buchman’s half dozen. The US cult Synanon formalized the psychological and physical control structures common to all coereced treatment. The “addictions medicine” scam came from a bona fide crazy lady named Ruth Fox. Later, a grifter named George Talbot took the ASAM ball and ran with it. Just as the Alberta provincial government paid to send people to the Kids cult in New Jersey for treatment thirty-five years ago, the Coerced Treatment folks were sending people from Alberta down to Talbot in Atlanta twenty years later. No one has ever investigated the hundreds of cases of people sent to the US by the Alberta government in the late eighties, although the long-gone AADAC did recognize that it was essentially a complete scam.
Frank Buchman, Chuck Dederich, George Talbot, Ruth Fox, Art Barker, Mel Sembler, Miller Newton. The more you know!
We have spoken. Is anyone out there? https://youtu.be/y-JqH1M4Ya8?t=4
Such a sad time to be an Albertan. I hope voters have more sense next time the polls open. I pray they do.