The problem for Premier Danielle Smith, Finance Minister Nate Horner and the UCP on Day 1 of a new year isn’t that the policy of keeping the gas tax doesn’t make sense, it does, but that the optics suck.
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What can we expect from the UCP in 2024? Not just more of the same – a lot more!
How does one provide thoughtful analysis when the UCP Government’s obvious plan going forward is: Same s**t, different year?
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Letter implores Edmonton mayor and council to intervene to halt ‘violent and disruptive decampment’ planned today
Edmonton police are expected to start breaking up some of the homeless camps in downtown Edmonton this morning.
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AlbertaPolitics.ca as its 17th year of publication begins: we need to talk, Dear Readers
Not only has the newspaper business gone to hell in a handbasket, now social media is going to the same place via the same mode of transportation. This is a serious problem for blogs like this one.
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Ho! Ho! Ho! Christmas comes a little early for the Trans Mountain Pipeline as Ottawa guarantees another couple o’ billion
Meanwhile, no matter how full the province’s hospitals are, Premier Danielle Smith still can’t bring herself to encourage Albertans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or influenza.
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Danielle Smith dodges and weaves, but doesn’t deny, report government ordered AHS not to mention COVID or flu in vaccine ads
News conference about government’s response to doctor shortage turns into grilling on government interference in AHS vaccination advertising.
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Steven Guilbeault is keeping someone busy writing unhinged jeremiads for Danielle Smith!
Apparently federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has become the new Tzeporah Berman, or maybe the new David Suzuki, with the power to make Alberta’s premier go nuts!
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Ethics investigations, Alberta, style – no rules were broken when Deena Hinshaw was fired! Now please move along, folks …
Whodunnit? It can never be said that an investigation of the sort conducted by Alberta’s ethics commissioner has vindicated anyone.
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After a day of negotiations, deal lightly taps the brakes on mass Christmas clearances of Edmonton homeless camps
Meanwhile, UCP makes it harder to solve housing crisis. Plus, news stories cast light on premier’s apparent interference in AHS.
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Police officer swears city officials agreed with plan to drive Edmonton homeless people from encampments before Christmas
So far, there’s no evidence anyone at the City of Edmonton has instructed its lawyers not to continue to argue Monday to allow the police to sweep the streets of homeless encampments.
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Edmonton mayor appears to have been blindsided by city police plan for Christmas roust of eight homeless encampments next week
Peace on Earth? Good will to men? Not if they’re poor and living on the streets of Edmonton! This sounds more like something out of the pages of the Grapes of Wrath!
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Danielle Smith celebrates her return from COP28 with unhinged attack on federal environment minister
The bizarre and childish official statement is a classic example of Trump henchman Steve Bannon’s doctrine of flooding the zone.