Talk about crypto-marxism! Next thing you know the CCPA is going to be coming after Kitty just because she enjoys dining on a songbird now and again!
Posted inAlberta Politics
Alberta NDP’s $7.1-million fund-raising total in 2022 speaks to deep dissatisfaction among many voters with Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP
Alberta’s Opposition party says it raised $3.2 million in the fourth quarter, $265,000 in a single day – New Year’s Eve.
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Social-conservative activist John Carpay reported by legal advocacy group he heads to have been charged with obstruction of justice
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms said it believes the charges stem from a 2021 incident in which the Calgary lawyer hired a private detective to snoop on a top Manitoba judge.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Resignations leave residents of two corners of southwest Calgary with neither an MP nor an MLA
Happy New Year, and say goodbye to Calgary Heritage Member of Parliament Bob Benzen, who has resigned his seat effective midnight last night.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Some thoughts on New Year’s parties, especially conservative ones, which are always welcome in Alberta politics
As former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason has accurately said on many occasions, you just can’t have too many right-wing political parties in Alberta.
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The Alberta political story of 2022 was the decline, fall, irrelevance and virtual disappearance of Jason Kenney
For a man who once stood astride Alberta in triumph, Jason Kenney has become utterly irrelevant, and all but invisible. Who saw that coming?
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Never mind what Danielle Smith promises, here are the Top Ten Things that WON’T happen in Alberta politics in 2023
I will be delighted to be proved wrong about this, but don’t bet the farm, or even the modest Edmonton condo, on an election being called for May 29, 2023.
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Political risk? Unhappy school boards? UCP unexpectedly turns against P3s to build new schools
Alberta Infrastructure Minister Nathan Neudorf has announced the United Conservative Party Government will no longer be using P3s build new schools.
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Premier Smith to nurses and doctors: Forget about measures to mitigate respiratory disease spread, the UCP is for ‘choice’
Premier Danielle Smith has made it clear that chief medical officers of health who do their jobs and express opinions other than those of the government will not be in their positions for long.
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Danielle Smith runs the idea of an Alberta pension plan referendum in May up the flagpole – then yanks it halfway down again
If the whole idea is not achievable and politically dangerous, what the heck is Ms. Smith doing raising it now?
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Tracy Allard, pushed from cabinet in 2021 for a Hawaiian pandemic holiday, welcomed back as ‘parliamentary secretary for civil liberties’
Perhaps the new Civil Liberties Czar can look into the UCP plan to incarcerate people living with addictions and force them to receive injections of opium addiction medications.
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In only 64 days, Danielle Smith blew the relationship Jason Kenney strove to build with Alberta First Nations to smithereens
Say what you will about Jason Kenney and his ideas, he made progress on persuading First Nations communities to buy into his vision of Alberta’s future.