Could AHS end up having to cancel surgeries in public hospitals to ensure the private surgical companies with which its signed deals can keep operating? It looks like that could happen.
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So what kind of UCP candidates will replace Finance Minister Travis Toews and Environment Minister Sonya Savage?
Whoever the candidates turn out to be, measures have already been taken to ensure they won’t be enemies of Premier Danielle Smith.
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Finance Minister Travis Toews and Environment Minister Sonya Savage won’t seek re-election on May 29
Both Travis Toews and Sonya Savage were capable cabinet ministers and members of what we might call the rapidly diminishing sane wing of the UCP.
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You can never believe anything until it’s been officially denied: The UCP just denied it wants to privatize health care
Don’t worry, Alberta, Health Minister Jason Copping wants you to know that here in Wild Rose Country, private is public.
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China’s spending money to undermine Canadian democracy? If they’ll just leave us alone, we’ll take care of it ourselves!
Canada faces foreign interference in Canadian democracy right now – from the U.S. Government, the American corporate sector, and the Neoliberal Internationale headed by Stephen Harper.
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‘Tylenot’ is here at last, premier and health minister proclaim, just in time for no one to want to buy the stuff
Alberta’s response to last fall’s shortage of children’s fever medication will cost taxpayers $80 million for 1.25 million bottles of a non-standard product from Turkey that can’t be bought off the shelf.
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MLA Dan Williams’ beer guzzling in the Legislature is just another episode in the UCP’s sophomoric obsession with alcohol
A legislative chamber is a workplace. Well, except in Alberta, apparently.
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UCP now wants underwhelming minimum wage report, a typical Jason Kenney production, to be quickly forgotten
The report contains no surprises. The minimum wage “expert panel” was obviously handpicked to come up with a report that called for policy Jason Kenney had already decided to implement.
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Take Back Alberta, far right radical group, continues its effort to take over UCP
If it ever was, the UCP is not your grandfather’s Conservative party any more!
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Growing consensus that Alberta NDP’s communications strategy is failing prompts calls for tougher approach
“If the NDP doesn’t up its comms game immediately, they will lose the election in May,” says a frustrated former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason. “There’s too much at stake to keep fumbling around.”
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Rachel Notley vows reinvestment in health and education, hammers UCP record, after accepting riding nomination
“New Democrat values are Alberta values,” Rachel Notley asserted at her nomination to run again in Edmonton-Strathcona. More than 1,000 people attended the meeting in Edmonton yesterday.
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Federal environment minister spoke softly about that unreported toxic sludge leak, but Ottawa carries a big stick
In the event of conflict between valid federal and provincial laws, the federal law is paramount. So Alberta can’t wish away federal regulations. Ottawa’s environment minister seems to have noticed.