The obviously well-funded “citizen led inquiry” appears to have been created only to undermine the Trudeau Government and give a platform to cranks pushing COVID conspiracy theories. As for the Alberta Government’s version now headed by Preston Manning, it’s probably much the same.
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Danielle Smith versus Danielle Smith on public health care: Methinks the premier doth protest too much!
The problem for the UCP is that both Danielle Smiths are the same person. The question for Alberta voters is, can they believe the new Daniele Smith is the real Danielle Smith?
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Ethics Commissioner will probe premier’s chat with rebel pastor; Premier’s Office clams up while NDP unintentionally helps
Alberta’s premier says she welcomes the investigation, which seems un likely, although it’s a good excuse to stop talking about it.
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Premier changes Pastorgate story again, claiming she thought preacher facing charges just wanted to talk politics
Like other excuses that have been proffered by Alberta’s premier up to now, her latest claim raises more questions than it answers.
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Happy Easter! Danielle Smith doesn’t apologize, but she certainly does explain!
If Alberta’s premier wants this story to go away, she needs to act more like the late Ralph Klein, whom she purports to admire, and admit she was wrong to speak with an accused person.
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Embarrassed by premier’s telephone tête-à-tête with extremist facing criminal charges, UCP retreats to its safe space: Law ’n’ Order rhetoric
Sounding a mite panicked by the negative public response to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s willingness to bend rules to help political allies in trouble with the law, the United Conservative Party has retreated to its ideological safe space: Law ’n’ Order, with a side of dog-whistles and urban crime stereotypes. There is a deep and […]
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On Monday Danielle Smith quoted government lawyers; now Alberta’s premier says the UCP is paying for her to sue the CBC
Is using libel law to suppress inconvenient media reports a suitable use for tax-deductible political donations in a democracy?
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Alberta premier hides behind lawsuit that hasn’t happened to dodge reporters’ difficult questions
Danielle Smith is refusing to comment on an essentially unrelated story based on a matter that is not now before the courts and may never be.
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Last week wasn’t a good one for Alberta’s UCP – this week holds the promise of more … snow
At this rate, the UCP is going to be praying that the heavy snow forecast throughout Southern Alberta today keeps falling until June!
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Biden offers to send election observers to Canada to oversee Alberta vote in May
Seriously, people, irony and sarcasm, let alone April Fool’s jokes, are going to have trouble surviving another year in Alberta!
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If you’re not talking to a Crown prosecutor, it doesn’t count as interference – that’s the UCP’s story, and they’re stickin’ to it!
Meanwhile, in Southern Alberta, an outrageous campaign video results in a UCP candidate having to walk the plank.
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Premier threatens CBC for reporting her own words in phone conversation with anti-vaxx pastor facing criminal charges
It may not be Lake of Fire 2.0, but you wouldn’t think Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s blustering response yesterday to the CBC’s release of a recording of her telling an anti-vaccine pastor facing criminal charges that she was talking to Justice officials “almost weekly” about his case is going to help her election campaign. Artur […]