You want our forced-air gas furnaces, our diesel buses, Guilbeault? Come and take ’em!
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The Recovery War Room: Best practices if ideologically acceptable, but not necessarily best practices
It would be fair to conclude from the minister’s own words that the government wants only to evaluate what it has already decided will work.
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Danielle Smith squirms at thought of Jason Kenney’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act used against her allies
Don’t forget that the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act intrudes into federal jurisdiction and is intended to criminalize legal and constitutionally protected behaviour.
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Some amusing thoughts on Wexit, Wexitry, and Wexiteers in a potentially confusingly united Western Canada
What happens to Wexit, Wexitry and the Wexiteers if it starts to look as if there could be a sweep across the western provinces of … New Democrats?
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No surprise, Alberta’s privatized surgery clinics don’t seem to be doing anything to reduce wait times
With UCP promises unmet, NDP health critic says private clinics aren’t helping.
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Rush to ‘Recovery Alberta’ mental health agency sure looks like an ideological drug-treatment hobbyhorse
Health worker unions warned the hurried implementation of the UCP’s mental health and addictions silo will sow chaos in public health care.
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UCP wants restructured AHS to be known as Alberta Health & Hospitality Services
Partnership with a motel chain would provide an opportunity “to put hospitality back in the hospice!”
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Actual news flash! Anti-woke Right launches War on Easter so it can pick a fight and blame someone else for starting it!
Even if somebody had been of a mind to gin up a War on Easter, nobody would have bothered. I mean, c’mon, it’s not much fun and almost nobody knows when it’s going to happen!
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Emphasizing hope and inclusion, Naheed Nenshi gets a warm welcome from Edmonton New Democrats
The former Calgary mayor clearly wanted to make a positive impression on what could have been a tough crowd – but wasn’t.
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Rakhi Pancholi quits NDP leadership race, endorses Naheed Nenshi
AFL President Gil McGowan also launches his campaign, says contest shouldn’t be a coronation.
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Four investigations are better than one – especially if none of them asks the right questions
What’s a government like the one run by the United Conservative Party to do with the public still riled up about that motel medicine meltdown, the health care controversy that just won’t quit? How about launching an investigation in to the misnamed Contentment Social Services, the company that was discovered by the CBC to have […]
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Tegan and Sara call out Smith Government for UCP’s anti-trans policies at Junos
The musical duo from Calgary have done everyone who lives in Alberta a favour.