Where the heck was the only minister from Edmonton when this important meeting with Edmonton’s mayor took place?
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Alberta in 2023: COVID, Conservatives, and the plan to make the energy rollercoaster even scarier
No natural disaster is required to justify bad economic policies. We’re quite capable of generating our own disasters right here in quasi-sovereign Alberta!
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National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommends spring COVID boosters for groups at risk of severe illness
The NACI guidance presents a conundrum for Premier Danielle Smith’s government, with the UCP organization if not its Legislative Caucus now dominated by anti-vaccination militants.
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Ron Liepert, colourful former Alberta cabinet minister who unseated ‘Canada’s Worst MP,’ is set to retire
When Calgary MP Ron Liepert announced on Feb. 17 he’s is about to retire, no one seems to have thought to thank him for his greatest service to Canada: handing Rob Anders his hat.
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Budget 2023: Smoke, mirrors, sleight of hand, and promises that don’t have to be kept
An air of pre-election unreality may explain why the aspect of the Alberta Budget that seemed to generate the most interest yesterday was the appearance of convoy activist Tamara Lich in the Legislature’s public gallery.
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Astonishing! It’s Budget Day and suddenly there’s no health care crisis, and Alberta Health Services is A-OK!
Apparently an election in 90 days concentrates a premier’s mind wonderfully!
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Guest Post: Researcher Regan Boychuk digs deep into the history of the RStar scheme
“This May will provide a spectacular opportunity for Albertans to demand more than a pittance in royalties and more than mere lip service to the principle of polluter-pay.” – Regan Boychuk
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Like the proverbial bad penny, Raj Sherman keeps turning up – this time as UCP candidate in Edmonton-Whitemud
For the Edmonton-Whitemud nomination vote, the former Alberta Liberal leader made sure he obeyed all the party’s rules and won the nomination fair and square. There’s not much the UCP can do about him except pray discreetly for an NDP victory in the riding.
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AG on AB continuing care COVID response: lack of preparation, not enough staff, outdated infrastructure
“It’s frightening to contemplate what would have happened if Alberta had followed Danielle Smith’s advice to copy the disastrous responses in South Dakota or Florida and simply let the virus rip …”
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COVID-19 haunts us still, but if your vaccinations and boosters are fully up to date, AHS won’t let you have another one
If you’ve had your two-shot vaccination against COVID, followed by two boosters and a bivalent booster, each about five or six months apart, Alberta Health Services will not allow you to have another booster. It’s the same elsewhere in Canada.
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Our annual Family Day toast to Don Getty, whose best-known achievement was one for the ages
If our former Alberta NDP government had wanted a project that would have ensured the eternal gratitude of most Albertans, come what may, it should have returned the August holiday to statutory status. They should promise that now.
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Rajan Sawhney, one of the seven contenders to lead the UCP last year, won’t seek re-election this spring
Rajan Sawhney was one of the UCP leadership candidates who strongly criticized then-candidate Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act promise, calling it “an unconstitutional distraction.”