This is not the MLA’s first travel controversy. He was booted off Treasury Board in January 2021 for holidaying in Arizona during the Kenney Government’s first mid-pandemic travel scandal.
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Smith to Legislature: Sorry/Not sorry!
NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley and Justice Critic Irfan Sabir fired off a letter to the RCMP calling for a criminal investigation of Premier Smith’s efforts on behalf of a preacher facing criminal charges.
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Former MLA’s request for investigation of premier’s dishwashing post blown off by office of Ethics Commissioner
Cameron Westhead says he has requested an explanation and a reconsideration of the office’s decision not to look into what he sees as the premier’s use of her office for private gain.
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Turns out Facebook didn’t censor or ban Alberta’s premier, but Danielle Smith’s complaint raises a legitimate policy question
Let it be said that with Facebook and Twitter operating in many countries, including Canada, like public utilities, there is some merit to the idea they should be subject to government regulation.
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The boss is going crazy! She’s practically giving her restaurant away! Plus, big tech is censoring her!
Could there be two more quintessential Alberta political stories? How does one even choose which one to cover? And from what are we being distracted?
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Rachel Notley is no Jim Prentice or Danielle Smith, so she’s not about to quit in a tantrum or a snit
Rachel Notley isn’t a big baby like Jim Prentice, Alberta’s last Progressive Conservative premier, who quit in a snit on election night 2015, or Danielle Smith after her 2012 election loss.
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With half of UCP Caucus in cabinet, more MLA perks to come, we get a glimpse of Danielle Smith’s unity strategy
50% of Danielle Smith’s Caucus will get a 50% pay increase as cabinet ministers. Unity is assured!
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Danielle Smith names her cabinet – not all the omens are good ones
Here are some hot takes on some of the politicians named to the United Conservative Party cabinet yesterday.
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Historical facts – so confusing! In case you missed it, World War II didn’t start 79 years ago Tuesday
People who advocate war, as our politicians so often do, would benefit from knowing a few basic facts about what has actually happened in some of them.
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Consequence culture strikes! Former health minister Tyler Shandro finds himself out of a job
Worse politicians than Tyler Shandro have enjoyed political comebacks in Alberta. Still, let us enjoy the spectacle of a deserving politician hoist with his own petard.
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Despite complaints from the left the NDP shifted too far right, it was a left policy blunder that lost the Alberta election
The Alberta NDP had a rare chance on May 29 to beat the Conservatives. With a strategic blunder, it tossed it away.
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Rachel Notley’s unforced error – that 3% corporate tax increase – probably cost the NDP the election
Will Danielle Smith moderate her most outrageous policy plans? Don’t count on it.