Looking relaxed and confident, Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi ripped into Premier Danielle Smith’s flirtation with separatism yesterday at the Opposition party’s annual convention. “Alberta’s New Democrats will always, always, always stand with the millions and millions of Canadians who believe in a stronger, more unified country,” he told the more than 1,000 party members […]
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Mark Carney shows grace and calculation with decision to call quick by-election for Pierre Poilievre
Prime Minister Mark Carney showed both grace and calculation in his decision to call a by-election as soon as possible so that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, deprived of his seat in the House of Commons by the unexpected good sense of voters in his former Carleton riding, can remain leader of the Opposition and a […]
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Danielle Smith tries to turn up the heat on Ottawa while MAGA Canada suffers mass psychotic breakdown on X
Unsure whom to blame for Monday’s federal election loss by Pierre Poilievre and his Trumpified Conservative Party of Canada, the online Canadian MAGAsphere seemed headed for a full meltdown, klaxons blaring, for a while yesterday. A mass psychotic breakdown on the hellsite previously known Twitter saw conservatives not only screeching at their long list of […]
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Jagmeet Singh’s federal NDP has just suffered a catastrophe; let’s talk about Naheed Nenshi’s Alberta New Democrats
Happy May Day, the day of the worker just about everywhere in the world except North America. Once upon a time, Canadians used to think of the New Democratic Party as the party of the workers. Not so much anymore, though, as the results of Monday’s election powerfully illustrate. The Conservative Party of Canada has […]
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Danielle Smith: The people have spoken and I refuse to acknowledge what they said!
In a spasm of Trump-like rancour in the wake of the Liberal victory in Monday’s federal election, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doubled down yesterday on her pre-election threats to national unity with a graceless and resentful response to the vote result. Supposedly commencing with a note of congratulation to Prime Minister Mark Carney for his […]
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Election Night 2025 hot take: There was something to disappoint almost everyone!
It’s not quite midnight here in Alberta on election night and at this hour it looks as if there’s something to disappoint almost everyone. “LIBERALS SET TO RETURN TO POWER,” The Globe and Mail proclaims, but not with a majority or all that comfortable a lead – 165 to 147 for the Conservatives with 93 […]
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Whatever happens in today’s election, don’t expect sunny days again any time soon
Whoever emerges as the victor in today’s federal election, don’t expect many sunny days in the aftermath. Been there, done that. It was 2015 and it didn’t work out quite the way we anticipated, although it sure felt like a relief for a while. Looking back over the past three years in particular, it feels […]
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With the federal election tomorrow, don’t expect Danielle Smith to surface today
With the federal election tomorrow – either nail-bitingly close, or not, depending on which pollster’s analysis you’ve just finished reading – what do you want to bet Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t surface any time today. She was supposed to be safely unreachable in the air yesterday, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, returning from her […]
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Dr. Joffe Unchained: Alberta’s former chief medical officer of health finally says what he thinks about the measles vaccine
Now that Dr. Mark Joffe is “out” as Alberta’s chief medical officer of health – I quit, you’re fired, or whatever – he obviously feels free to say what he thinks about measles vaccinations. The formerly all-but-invisible CMOH published an op-ed in The Calgary Herald yesterday in which he bluntly stated the obvious: that measles […]
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Peter Guthrie, booted from UCP Caucus, assails Premier Danielle Smith in open letter, vows to hold government to account
Peter Guthrie, the former United Conservative Party cabinet minister now sitting as an independent member of the Alberta Legislature, fired back at Premier Danielle Smith yesterday in an open letter suggesting she is using the federal election to raise her national profile. To what end Mr. Guthrie thinks Ms. Smith might be doing this is […]
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Thomas Lukaszuk, former deputy premier, files Law Society complaint against Alberta justice minister
Former Conservative deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk has filed a complaint with the Alberta Law Society against Justice Minister Mickey Amery and the lawyer engaged by the provincial government to talk to Health Department and Alberta Health Services employees who are contacted by staff from the office of the Auditor General. Mr. Lukaszuk said on social […]
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Danielle Smith skips out on Corrupt Care questions, skedaddles off to Japan and Korea
Alberta’s United Conservative Party must really fear the potential impact of the Corrupt Care Scandal, as the NDP Opposition has dubbed the continuing brouhaha about dodgy contracts pushed on Alberta Health Services by government insiders. One key reason for such concern would be the imminent end of the federal election campaign on April 28, at […]