Everything about this announcement and survey suggests the whole thing was cobbled together in about 10 minutes over coffee – or perhaps something stronger. How is this a legitimate way to develop public policy?
Posted inAlberta Politics
It’s hard to believe Danielle Smith didn’t know her staff was emailing prosecutors about Coutts border blockade charges
Plus, will Preston Manning drop his plans for a national partisan pandemic panel now that he’s been offered a chance to run a paid provincial partisan pandemic panel?
Posted inCanadian Politics
There’s a sedition super-highway – Canada needs to take the off-ramp
In the United States and Brazil, the institutions of government are taking steps to show that this type of conduct has no place in a civilized society. In Canada, not so much.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Apocalypse Now? Or apocalypse later? Are we looking at the last days of the UCP, or just another self-inflicted speed bump?
Nothing definitive, but there’s a whiff of smoke in the air, as if a cow has kicked over a lantern in a stable somewhere, and flames are just starting to spread.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Dumping RCMP for provincial force could cost St. Albert residents an average $2,784 a year in property tax, says city’s NDP MLA
St. Albert MLA Marie Renaud cited a report from Surrey, B.C., which concluded property taxes would have to rise 55 per cent if the city went ahead with a plan to set up a local police service.
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Texas businessman, world traveller, decides not to seek re-election in rural Alberta riding
A United Conservative Party backbencher caught up in the Alohagate pandemic travel scandal in the first hours of 2021 and seldom seen in his own riding has acknowledged reality and announced his political career is done like dinner. Or, as Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn put it in a rambling letter to constituents yesterday, […]
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Ah, Imprecision! Carry On, Prosecutors! Danielle Smith takes it all back in clarification
We are a point now that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called into doubt just about everything else she has ever said about anything.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Stuff Danielle Smith says: Alberta premier in hot water again, this time for suggesting she interfered with administration of justice
Whatever happened, Premier Danielle Smith has gotten herself in trouble again, and further clarifications are going to be required.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Impasse: Ottawa unlikely to fork over billions to make health care better if Conservative premiers insist on using the cash to make it worse
The 2001 Firewall formula makes it sound easy, but the UCP dream of ‘reforming’ health care would be pretty hard without federal co-operation.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Danielle Smith to Alberta at first newser of 2023: ‘We haven’t made a decision to invoke the Sovereignty Act on anything’
If Alberta’s Sovereignty Act ever gets used, it’ll be so close to the next general election that it won’t have a chance to flop until after the ballots are counted.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Think tanks to Canadians: Do what we say or be prepared to freeze in the dark!
Without decisive changes in public and government attitudes, “Canada faces a decline in living standards and a crippling dependence on foreign fuels within the next 10 years.” Yup, according to an independent study group set up by the Calgary-based Canada West Foundation, “without additional commitments to the development of new resources to replace those we […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
From the folks who brought you sovereignty within a united Canada, ‘just transition’ is a divisive, polarizing term!
I’ve got news for federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson: This is Alberta, and we’re the Canadian equivalent of “Mikey.” We hate everything. So we’re going to hate sustainable jobs, too.