In Danielle Smith’s Alberta, if the facts don’t support your argument, you can make up new facts. Alberta’s premier demonstrated this capacity yesterday evening in her delusional 15-minute televised address to the province wherein she set out to explain the differences between the Canadian and United States constitutions in order to justify holding a referendum […]
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UCP plan to railroad a separation referendum onto this fall’s ballot goes off the rails
The United Conservative Party’s effort to railroad a separation referendum onto a ballot this fall and blame it on the people who signed the pro-Canada Forever Canadian petition was unfolding according to plan in a Legislature committee meeting yesterday afternoon when Opposition House Leader Christina Gray raised a point of privilege. Ms. Gray, who is […]
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Danielle Smith expected to try to force Albertans to endure a separation referendum – and blame someone else for it
Thanks to her sneaky separatist manoeuvring, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to have wedged herself between the proverbial rock and metaphorical hard place. If she doesn’t do what the Alberta separatists in her United Conservative Party demand and call a referendum using the wording on their Citizen Initiative petition – “Do you agree that the […]
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The Wrath of Jeff: Prominent Alberta separatist advocates internal UCP coup to oust Danielle Smith
Happy Victoria Day! Over the weekend leading up to our national celebration of Victorian rectitude, imperialism and class inequality, prominent Alberta separatist Jeffrey Rath took to the Internet appearing to advocate an internal United Conservative Party coup to remove Premier Danielle Smith. Her sin, in Mr. Rath’s obvious estimation, is that she’s been working too […]
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Despite political differences, Mark Carney and Danielle Smith have more objectives in common than they don’t
There’s no need to make the explanation of the carbon pricing, carbon capture and bitumen pipeline deal announced Friday in Calgary by the federal and Alberta governments too complicated. It’s actually pretty simple. After all, notwithstanding their political differences, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith have more objectives in common right now than […]
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Danielle Smith and the UCP can’t be very happy with Alberta’s chief electoral officer
Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party can’t be too happy today with Elections Alberta and its boss, Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure. On Wednesday, Court of King’s Bench Justice Shaina Leonard ruled that Mr. McClure made an error in law when he approved a Citizen Initiative petition collected by a group seeking a referendum […]
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If Danielle Smith were smart, she’d treat court ruling quashing separatist petition as a political get-out-of-jail-free card
If Alberta Premier Danielle Smith were smart, she’d treat yesterday’s Court of King’s Bench ruling quashing Elections Alberta’s approval of the Stay Free Alberta/Alberta Prosperity Project petition for a separation referendum as a political get-out-of-jail-free card. After all, she could probably persuade her party’s separatist base the appeals were going to take forever, and in […]
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You thought the voters list debacle was bad? 20 years ago, Alberta Conservatives wanted our birthdays on it too!
As bad as the release of the personal data of three million Albertans in the province’s list of electors to virtually every fraudster and propagandist in the world turns out to be, it could have been worse! And it’s only because a public employee had the good sense and courage to stand up to the […]
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Danielle Smith – the public face of foreign interference in Canada – gets Canadian security clearance
Danielle Smith, who is basically the public face of foreign interference in Canada, has been given a Canadian “Top Secret” security clearance, her press secretary said on Thursday. According to Sam Blackett, in conversation with The Canadian Press, “the premier has now obtained her top-secret clearance in order to receive briefings on issues related to […]
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Horse gone; barn door now shut: Elections Alberta issues 568 cease-and-desist letters
Now that the metaphorical horse has departed the proverbial barn for pastures unknown, Alberta’s toothless elections agency says it’s slamming the barn door shut. At any rate, Elections Alberta officials told the CBC yesterday that the evening before Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure had sent cease-and-desist letters to 568 people involved one way or another […]
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Independent MLA Scott Sinclair delivers abject apology to former UCP colleagues
The Chestnut Tree was almost empty. A ray of sunlight slanting through a window fell on dusty table-tops. It was the lonely hour of fifteen. A tinny music trickled from the telescreens. — George Orwell, 1984 There is no Chestnut Tree Café in Edmonton. There is no need. There is the Chamber of the Alberta […]
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At least one UCP staffer attended April 16 demo of database that used restricted personal information
It takes a certain ingenuity for a crooked government to keep its scandals hidden. Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your perspective – that’s a talent Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party seem to lack. Yesterday the Opposition NDP revealed in a news release it had “obtained video evidence that appears to show that […]