Danielle Smith, meanwhile, is touting her own rather dubious poll, which unsurprisingly suggests a UCP she leads could beat Ms. Notley’s NDP in a general election.
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Small Edmonton crowd says farewell to Queen Elizabeth as tired premier manages a reasonably dignified speech
Jason Kenney did not, to his credit and notwithstanding his religious convictions, call for the Queen to be proclaimed a saint – as someone actually did in the pages of the Globe and Mail yesterday!
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Jason Kenney, working remotely by cellphone from London queue, tweets ostentatiously while waiting to bid farewell to Queen
Now that such revelations are an established practice, surely we are entitled to the grand total of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s phone bill whilst he sojourned in London.
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Canadian Conservative affection for the monarchy: 1.6 kilometres wide and 2.54 centimetres deep!
They don’t have a monarchist bone in their bodies nowadays, these Canadian Conservatives.
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After years spent building Alberta Health Services, UCP leadership candidates talk decentralization
If Alberta introduces more chaos and expense by decentralizing AHS, the morale of the province’s already demoralized health care workforce is bound to collapse.
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So, some things seem to have changed in the past couple of days: We’ll have something to say about that!
As Canute, King of England from 1016 to 1035, famously demonstrated, you can’t just order the tide to change.
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NDP Leader Rachel Notley vows to reverse UCP policies that reduced worker overtime and the youth minimum wage
Opposition Leader Rachel Notley vowed yesterday to reverse two United Conservative Party policies that reduced overtime payments for many working Albertans and lowered minimum wages for young people if the NDP forms government after the next election. Ms. Notley said at a Labour Day news conference in Edmonton that the NDP is committed to restoring […]
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Happy Labour Day: the tide of workers who wish they had a union is growing
Unions are just groups of working people who pool their modest individual strength to bargain with employers to ensure a fair share of the great wealth they create ends up in the hands of ordinary families.
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Guest post by Steve Bradshaw: Is a regional transit system really a good deal for Edmonton?
Advice about the Edmonton Metropolitan Transit Services Commission from the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 569: maybe municipalities should take their money and run!
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Doug Schweitzer quits, effective midnight last night, tosses hot potato to UCP
If the new UCP leader who replaces Jason Kenney doesn’t have a seat in the Legislature, there’s no way she’ll want to run in a by-election she could lose with unpredictable political consequences before the general election.
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Lizard brain or legacy? Why is Jason Kenney, soon to be history, announcing big plans for Alberta’s latest windfall?
What makes Jason Kenney think he gets to decide what will be done with the $13.4 billion surging resource revenues have bestowed upon Alberta’s books?
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A spectre is haunting the UCP – the spectre of Rachel Notley – and it made for a dull ‘debate’
The prospect of an NDP victory in the general election expected next spring, personified by former premier and Opposition leader Notley, loomed over the seven candidates on the stage at downtown Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre.