What’s a government like the one run by the United Conservative Party to do with the public still riled up about that motel medicine meltdown, the health care controversy that just won’t quit? How about launching an investigation in to the misnamed Contentment Social Services, the company that was discovered by the CBC to have […]
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Tegan and Sara call out Smith Government for UCP’s anti-trans policies at Junos
The musical duo from Calgary have done everyone who lives in Alberta a favour.
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Motel Medicine is a logical and predictable result of health care policies Alberta’s UCP continues to push
The Alberta motel medicine scandal that was still unfolding yesterday with the premier’s revelation 39 more discharged hospital patients were being housed in Leduc hotels by the same company as the stroke patient at the heart of the original news report is a logical and predictable result of the privatization of health care that the […]
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UCP and AHS desperately search for scapegoat to make motel medicine meltdown go away
No one has a clue in a carload if a list of care providers used by AHS was ever vetted, or who created it.
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NDP leadership candidate Sarah Hoffman takes a page from the book of FDR with Youth Climate Corps idea
With the idea of carbon taxes all but dead with Canadian electorates, the cap-and-trade idea is likely to gain traction with other candidates and even other political parties.
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How the UCP gets away with worse stuff than Alison Redford could – we’ve been desensitized by Donald Trump
There was a time in Alberta when sending a stroke patient in a taxicab to a cheap motel in Leduc would have sparked a huge scandal. It’s history now.
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Alberta’s ‘astonishingly bad’ K-6 social studies curriculum appears to have been ‘designed for home schooling’
An expert panel asked to weigh in on the new kindergarten to Grade 6 social studies curriculum unanimously urged Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides to pull the plug and start over.
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It turns out Danielle Smith, the smartest person in any room, solved the health care crisis in 2022! Who knew?
There is a clear line that connects the dots between the words spoken by Danielle Smith at her campaign town hall on Aug. 12, 2022, and the arrival of a recuperating stroke patient at a $47-a-night motel in Leduc on March 4.
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Beware the Ides of March! You might get a subpoena from Elections Alberta!
David Parker calls on his supporters to demonstrate against Elections Alberta, which he says has subpoenaed him to appear before an investigation of Take Back Alberta.
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An Alberta police force? Yep, it’s back! You can count on the UCP to never give up on a bad idea
Yesterday afternoon, the UCP tabled Bill 11 in the Legislature, which comes with a non-descript title, the Public Safety Statutes Amendment Act, 2024. But it’s the provincial police scheme all over again.
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Naheed Nenshi, Superstar! Do you think you’re what they say you are?
Whether or not Calgary’s former mayor is really the front runner in the race to lead the Alberta NDP can be debated, but it can be assumed that from today on, national media is going to treat him as if he is.
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Naheed Nenshi expected to enter Alberta NDP leadership race today – and it’ll be a true stress test for the coalition Rachel Notley built
Until Rachel Notley came along, Alberta’s NDP played the role of a little party of conscience, no threat to Conservatives but usually capable of electing a couple of MLAs who punched above their weight.