Nothing has changed as a result of a right-wing publication’s defence of the new chief of the Alberta Human Rightss Commission. He remains an unsuitable candidate for the important position he occupies.
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Who won last night’s United Conservative Party leadership debate? Rajan Sawhney
Former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason said he agreed with candidate Rajan Sawhney’s conclusion a Danielle Smith victory now will likely mean a Rachel Notley win in 2023.
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Another poll shows Danielle Smith leading UCP leadership race – and Rachel Notley’s NDP ahead province-wide
Sounding nuttier by the day with the UCP’s pro-quackery base firmly in her camp, Danielle Smith nevertheless still leads the party’s leadership candidates in new poll by Leger.
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The real question facing Albertans: Which woman should be premier – Rachel Notley, Rebecca Schulz, or Danielle Smith?
All Albertans need to have the chance to decide which woman is going to get to lead this province for the next four years – Rachel Notley, or the new UCP leader.
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MLA Thomas Dang acknowledges reality, drops effort to rejoin NDP, says he won’t run again in Edmonton-South
The Edmonton-South MLA made a serious error in judgment when he tried to hack into the Alberta Health Services patient database. With a trial date set for next week, it was time to end the embarrassment.
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Deadline Day speculation: Could Rebecca Schulz emerge as the UCP leadership candidate to defeat Danielle Smith?
Yesterday was Deadline Day in the United Conservative Party race to replace Premier Jason Kenney, one of those frustrating moments in journalism when everyone knows there’s news to report and nobody knows exactly what it is. That is to say, everyone knows that some of the candidates have neither the bucks nor the credibility to […]
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European movie chain folds, wipes out shares, and AIMCo suffers a big loss – but how big?
AIMCo, the company the UCP wants to take over for the Canada Pension Plan, appears to have messed up again, with a loss that could reach $1B. Many details, so far, are not forthcoming.
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AHS drops mandatory COVID-19 immunization for health care employees; pressure from UCP widely assumed
When it comes to lifting public health measures, Alberta’s government is determined to be the first. When it comes to providing life-saving vaccines, it wants to wait and see what other provinces do.
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UCP leadership candidate calls appointment of Collin May as Human Rights chief ‘a significant problem’
Despite the flaws in her argument, Rajan Sawhney is the first and only UCP leadership candidate to speak out against the appointment of the Calgary lawyer and contributor to a controversial right-wing magazine.
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UCP appoints lawyer who wrote favourable review of book denigrating Islam to lead Human Rights Commission
Now that it has had almost nothing to say on this topic, we can assume the UCP Government will have nothing more to say.
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Danielle Smith takes UCP leadership campaign down a dark, Trumpian road with her conspiracy theory about AHS
The danger now is that other candidates in the UCP leadership race, seeing the traction Danielle Smith has gained through these tactics, will join in with inflammatory conspiracy theories of their own.
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Danielle Smith, campaigning to lead the United Conservative Party, sounds crazy – but is she crazy like a Trump?
Maybe Danielle Smith was just talking to see what she was going to say. She’s been known to do that, blithely confident she’s the smartest person in the room and can babble her way out of any gaffe.