The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature will rename Canada geese as American geese with the publication of the next edition of its widely respected list of scientific animal names. The fourth edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature published in 1999 lists the familiar large species of North American goose with a black head, […]
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AHS tells court it wants to revise filing to fire former CEO for something it didn’t know about when it fired her
The latest twist in the Alberta Government’s legal campaign against former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos’s wrongful dismissal lawsuit is a new court filing that claims the fired executive forwarded confidential emails to herself thereby breaching her employment contract. AHS, The Canadian Press reported yesterday, “is looking to amend its statement of defence in […]
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Danielle Smith tries to turn tables on critics with diatribe defending plan to meet far-right Florida bloviator today
Under fierce attack for asking Trump Administration officials pause their tariff war on Canada until a friendlier Conservative government could be elected in Ottawa and anticipating more of the same when she waltzes off to Florida today to sit down with an unsavoury far-right bloviator, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responded with a diatribe in the […]
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Startling increases in outsourced surgical costs tend to corroborate claims of contract irregularities made by fired AHS CEO: Parkland study
Analysis of public data showing startling increases in the cost of outsourced surgical procedures in Alberta that cannot be explained by inflation or input costs seem to corroborate claims of contract irregularities made by fired Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos, says a new report on for-profit surgical costs. The report, Operation Profit: Private Surgical […]
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No surprise, Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi announces he will run for Mark Carney’s Liberals on April 28
No surprise, Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi confirmed Sunday he will be running as a Liberal in the April 28 federal election. A former Liberal cabinet minister, Mr. Sohi will run in the new Edmonton Southeast riding, which includes some of the territory he represented as MP for Edmonton Mill Woods from 2015 to 2019 and […]
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Did Danielle Smith just admit she was helping the Trump Administration try to influence the Canadian election?
In order to get Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives elected as prime minister and government of Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told an interviewer from pro-MAGA Breitbart News in a March 8 podcast, she’s asked officials of the Trump Administration to “put things on pause” until the election if over. This admission resurfaced on the […]
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Former AHS CEO briskly denies her job performance had anything to do with why she was fired
Former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos has responded to the Alberta Government’s statement of defence in her wrongful dismissal suit with a briskly argued denial that lousy job performance had anything to do with why she was fired. The government’s lame response to reporters’ questions about situations described in Ms. Mentzelopoulos’s rebuttal document at […]
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Mark Carney comes back to Edmonton, warms up with Oilers, infuriates Danielle Smith
It may just be a political stunt when a prime minister comes to the capital city of Alberta, puts on his skates and a jersey with his own name on it and warms up with the local NHL team, which just happens to be called the Oilers, but you’ve got to admit it’s a hell […]
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Amid performative tantrum about ‘federal overreach,’ UCP tries to goad Mark Carney
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is having another tantrum about federal environmental regulatory overreach, mostly imagined, by the former Trudeau Government. Yesterday’s meltdown came in the form of an announcement about a bill to implement changes to former UCP premier Jason Kenney’s untested but probably unconstitutional Critical Infrastructure Defence Act that are obviously intended to […]
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Moribund newspaper chain names former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to its board
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., operator of the flagging chain of English-language Canadian newspapers and clickbait websites, yesterday announced the appointment of former Alberta Conservative premier Jason Kenney to its board of directors. It’s a revealing commentary on the state of affairs in Canadian media nowadays that the acquisition of Mr. Kenney’s services actually lends a […]
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Alberta 12-year-olds will soon be able to hunt without adult supervision using laser targeting devices
Hey, 12-year-olds in Alberta will soon be able to hunt without adult supervision using laser targeting devices on their hunting rifles! What could possibly go wrong? Parks and Forestry Minister Todd Loewen is at it again, introducing legislation that draws on a deep well of bad ideas about wildlife management and by all appearances a […]
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CUPE education workers in Fort Mac and Edmonton reach settlement deal after weeks on picket lines
After more than 17 weeks in some cases, braving temperatures that dipped into the sub 40s if you don’t count the wind-chill, education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Fort McMurray and Edmonton reached settlement agreements yesterday. The three mediated agreements between negotiators for CUPE’s locals and the Edmonton Public, Fort […]