Alberta’s UCP Government is going to make Alberta safer by taking over enforcement of a federal gun safety law and not enforcing it. Or something.
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‘Premier Smith does not understand our Treaty or our inherent rights nor does she respect them’ – Treaty 6 chiefs
Treaty 6 chiefs urged the Smith Government “to withdraw and reconsider any legislation that pretends jurisdiction over Treaty Lands and Peoples.”
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Advanced education minister’s video features porkies about premiers, prime ministers and petroleum
Why did Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides choose or approve a nano-clip of prime minister Pierre Trudeau saying “just watch me” to illustrate a cringeworthy social media video justifying Premier Danielle Smith’s unconstitutional Sovereignty Act?
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This is the last straw! Danielle Smith lays down a red line Ottawa must not cross: mushy paper straws!
On Saturday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith laid down a red line that Ottawa must not cross. You’d better be paying attention, Justin Trudeau! I give you … paper straws! Ms. Smith was bloviating in her characteristic gab salad for the benefit of her audience on Your Province, Your Premier, the forty-some minutes of what amounts […]
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Limiting debate, UCP rams through ‘Sovereignty Act in the wee hours of yesterday morning
NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley immediately called on the government to refer the Sovereignty Act, widely seen as unconstitutional, to the Alberta Court of Appeal.
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Rachel Notley’s portrait to be unveiled on Thursday in the Legislature Building – there are policy issues
Let’s take a break from the Sovereignty Act today and talk about something really important: Alberta premiers’ portraits. In Alberta there’s a long tradition that former premiers get to have rather large portraits hung in the rotunda of the Legislature Building in Edmonton, something that probably seemed like a good idea back in 1910 when […]
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Rank and file UCP MLAs are momentarily powerful – which likely explains Danielle Smiths’ partial Sovereignty Act climbdown
I can’t recall a situation in Alberta where a government’s signature piece of legislation was so sloppily written and unpopular that it had to be rewritten multiple times on the fly.
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Opposition NDP won’t allow itself to get sucked into the UCP’s desperate effort to fix the unfixable ASWAUCA
“This bill is beyond saving,” NDP Economic Development Critic Deron Bilous told a short and sparsely attended news conference in Edmonton this morning. “It must be revoked.”
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ASWAUCA – the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act – is turning into a disaster for Danielle Smith and the UCP
As any student of politics understands, Alberta’s premier should have said she wasn’t going to introduce a sovereignty act just yet – but that, by gosh, she would the instant it was required.
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Everything you always wanted to know about Jason Kenney’s departure from Alberta politics but were afraid to ask
Conservative MLAs in Alberta are mostly decorative at the best of times, all the more so since the Sovereignty Act will make their presence in the Legislature purely ornamental.
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Alberta’s ‘blatantly unconstitutional ‘Sovereignty Act’ would let ministers rule by decree
OTTAWA Bill 1, the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, was given the wrong name. Premier Danielle Smith’s signature first piece of legislation, introduced today after Lieutenant Governor Salma Lahkani read an otherwise typically lacklustre Throne Speech setting out the United Conservative Party Government’s legislative agenda, really should have been called the Alberta Dictatorship […]
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The Sovereignty Act, which we’ll finally see today, may be unconstitutional, or it may be effective, but it won’t be both
In the absence of an effective Sovereignty Act Premier Danielle Smith will just use its absence as an excuse to move on to “clear cut intimidation and harassment,” as the NDP justice critic put it.