The latest UCP rage ranching illustrates a timeless principle of Alberta politics: Anything Ottawa does is bad, even if it’s good.
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LPNs’ application to join Direct Nursing Care bargaining unit summarily dismissed by Alberta Labour Relations Board
In the logic of the three-member ALRB panel that made the decision, what Licensed Practical Nurses themselves think or want apparently has nothing to do with the matter.
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‘Pause’ in Smith Government’s Alberta pension plan sales pitch sounds more like a strategic effort to regroup
The horse Jim Dinning signed on to flog is not yet officially declared dead, but it sure doesn’t look healthy enough to pull this rickety bandwagon!
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Expect Rachel Notley, NDP premier from 2015 to 2019 and current Opposition leader, to step down today
Prediction: Premier Danielle Smith is also likely to leave Alberta politics sooner than you expect.
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Replacing the Sovereignty Act so soon? Danielle Smith’s belligerent statement vows new attack on federal power
Where is Brian Jean, Alberta’s increasingly hirsute Energy Minister who neither accompanied the premier to Dubai nor affixed his name to today’s inflammatory statement?
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United Conservative Party Government tells Alberta nurses: Don’t worry, there’s no list, and you’re not on it!
Alberta’s health care recruiting program now appears to be: Come to Alberta where we will immediately threaten to lay you off!
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Layover in Dubai: Who are the ‘hundreds’ of Albertans accompanying Danielle Smith – and who’s paying the freight?
For all the world it looks as if Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson are indulging their independence fantasy and pretending to be a national delegation to COP28. They’re not.
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The last thing Alberta New Democrats need is a dumb fight over their name, which is just fine as it is
The NDP is the only Alberta party that now offers government by grownups. That’s the brand. Leave it alone!
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#Kudatah? Not quite – even Danielle Smith admits this Sovereignty Act stuff is mostly performative fluff
To say the introduction of the first Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act resolution in the Alberta Legislature yesterday is performative is the understatement of the year, and the year is almost over.
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Danielle Smith to implement Alberta Sovereignty Act, legislation Jason Kenney called ‘full-frontal attack on the rule of law’
Something for Alberta’s UCP leaders to think about: History doesn’t offer many examples of nation states that just cheerfully allow themselves to be dissected.
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About those very expensive bottles of children’s ‘Tylenot’ – where’s the CTF when you need it?
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that Canada’s self-described “non-partisan tax watchdog” would be all over the UCP’s purchase of unwanted children’s medication that no one wanted like white on rice?
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Manning to Alberta Conservative MPs (and 1 Liberal): Supposedly non-partisan pandemic report ‘could be used by the CPC’
What did Premier Danielle Smith make of this revelation the report is nothing more than a publicly funded partisan document? Preston Manning “used his personal email to do it,” she responded. OK then!