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.”
Posted inAlberta Politics
HEADLESS GOVERNMENT IN TOPLESS TOWN!
Topless swimming in Edmonton city pools is an issue that will get Alberta’s social conservatives to go right off the deep end. We’ll be hearing about it every day at least until May 29.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Lion’s share of UCP health spending announced yesterday is earmarked for finding docs for rural areas
Docs for Alberta’s cities? It would appear that’s not as much of a UCP priority, or perhaps not a priority at all.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Did the UCP just purport to change a law using only a cabinet order?
How can Cabinet now change the Employment Standards Code without taking it to the Legislature?
Posted inAlberta Politics
NDP vows more access to family docs in what looks like the Opposition’s opening shot of 2023 election campaign
The NDP proposal gives the impression the Opposition has given serious thought to finding solutions to the health care crisis and has a clear plan over the next several years to make it happen.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Ottawa’s Conservatives: always disdainful of separatists, except when they aren’t
The vote Monday in the House of Commons demonstrates that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are always willing to undercut Canada and the Charter to own the Libs.
Posted inAlberta Politics
‘We reject the premise of your question’ – an excerpt from ‘Anger and Angst, Jason Kenney’s Legacy and Alberta’s Right’
‘Anger and Angst: Jason Kenney’s Legacy and Alberta’s Right’ combines 22 essays on politics, the economy, the environment, education, housing, child care, right-wing populism, and the UCP’s relationship with media.
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The curious case of Canada’s ‘tax watchdog,’ which hasn’t barked at the scandalous RStar program
With potentially the largest daylight robbery in Canadian history unfolding in Alberta with the co-operation of the province’s UCP Government, what have we heard from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation? Crickets.
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Guest post: The Website that Time Forgot
The Alberta Labor Relations Board website is “almost as outdated as the Alberta employment laws overseen by the Labour Board itself.”
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The ‘RStar’ scam’s not a good deal, but it’s a done deal, even if it goes against a ‘core capitalist principle’
Scotiabank report forcefully criticizes UCP plan give multibillion-dollar companies royalty breaks to clean up abandoned wells they’re already obligated to clean up.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Health care funding: Trudeau looks serene, even mischievous; premiers look like they’re just going to have to take it
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked like the smooth old political pro he has become yesterday as he laid out his health care deal for Canada’s perpetually dissatisfied and mostly Conservative premiers. Try as they might to look offended and unhappy with the 10-year, $196.1-billion cash deal the PM had just offered them (only a few […]
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Demetrios Nicolaides’ red-tape plan for post-secondaries is about dominating free speech on campus, not defending it
The Chicago Statement on Free Expression is an ingenious manifesto cooked up by the American right to use “free speech” as code for the right of the privileged and powerful to shout down everyone else.