Whatever Michaels Spavor and Kovrig were actually up to, there’s egg all over the faces of the Canadian political, media and intelligence establishments tonight.
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Danielle Smith delivers more promised chaos in health care with purge of six senior AHS executives
The purge of senior Alberta Health Services officials by the United Conservative Party that began yesterday is likely to paralyze decision making throughout the provincial health care system.
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Preston Manning’s pandemic panel report wants more politicians, fewer docs calling public health shots
Preston Manning, 81, has dropped his doorstopper recommending we quit just listening to scientists and physicians in the event of another pandemic and give equal time to “alternative scientific narratives.”
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Red Deer Catholic school trustee who compared pride flags to swastika banners is out – but that’s unlikely to be the end of the story
There are influential people in Alberta who share the former school trustee’s views and have a militant commitment to advancing them, and who will see an opportunity to engage in culture warfare.
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Premiers can agree not to poach health care workers from one another, but that’s easier said than done
No amicable premiers’ no-poaching agreement can keep health care professionals from talking to one another! Plus, how Alberta’s the place where bad ideas go to live forever.
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Danielle Smith and Tucker Carlson: Four reasons the Alberta premier will join the far-right American bloviator on stage
Here’s why Danielle Smith is going to go ahead and appear on stage with Tucker Carlson: She agrees with him. She’s a fan. It solves a political problem. She thinks she can get away with it.
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Danielle Smith summons Ed Stelmach, Lyle Oberg from the Alberta political crypt to help sell the breakup of AHS
The early release of the briefing notes by the NDP seems to have forced the government to move up its press conference by a day to try to recover lost ground.
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Back to the future: UCP set to announce plan to bust up AHS, add reams of red tape, and politicize health care decisions
Danielle Smith says she is “100 per cent committed” to leaked plan to replace Alberta Health Services with new health boards, agencies, bureaucracy, all directed out of her office.
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‘Lunatics’ really are running the asylum: UCP-TBA fusion starts to sink in with the Alberta commentariat
What’s changed as of yesterday is that Take Back Alberta and other like-minded groups in the UCP are no longer just a powerful faction of the party, they are the whole damn thing!
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Take Back Alberta victory in UCP board elections wasn’t that steep a hill to climb – the party went full MAGA ages ago
David Parker, TBA’s founder, chief ideologist and chief executive, tweeted “Veni, vedi, vici” last night. Just remember, Caesar said it first, and it sounded like “Weenie, Weedy, Weakie.”
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Chrystia Freeland says Canada’s chief actuary will determine how much cash Alberta would actually get if it pulls out of the CPP
When we heard Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner say yesterday he’s encouraged to hear that the federal government will ask the Government of Canada’s chief actuary to determine how much cash Alberta would actually get if it were to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan, we could predict with reasonable confidence he won’t be […]
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As Edmonton activist Michael Kalmanovitch sees it, with the planet afire, he had no choice but to raise a ruckus at the Legislature
There has been fallout. Speaker Nathan Cooper is said to have decreed guests will never again be seated inside the legislative chamber.