If Rachel Notley’s NDP hopes to form the next government of Alberta, they’re going to have to come up with something better to campaign on than a pledge to open the Sky Palace to the public!
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What do you do about a problem like Shane Getson, the UCP MLA whose Facebook post appeared to call for the PM to be lynched?
For his part, the UCP MLA claims he didn’t know that the poster he published on his Facebook page was a reference to the TV series Yellowstone, or that it implied a suggestion the PM be lynched.
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For a high-profile minister, UCP’s first official leadership candidate, Travis Toews, has flown under the radar
Despite his high-profile job as Alberta’s finance minister and soaring political ambitions, Travis Toews has kept a remarkably low profile. Just look at the uninformative media coverage of the announcement when Mr. Toews, Alberta’s minister of finance until yesterday, became the first candidate formally to throw his cowboy hat in the ring to replace the […]
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The UCP’s summers of shrinking ambition: from the Summer of Repeal to the Summer of Resignation via the Best Summer Ever
Surely even a dyed-in-the-wool republican would agree that Queen Elizabeth II deserves a better thank-you-and-so-long than a tacky honorific for a few dozen surviving Alberta cabinet ministers!
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In speech, Rachel Notley vows to put health care on ballot in 2023, reinstate harm-reduction programs, end UCP privatization plans
The UCP’s “incessantly ideological need to hollow out health care left Alberta more vulnerable to COVID-19,” says Opposition Leader and former premier Rachel Notley.
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Justice Minister Tyler Shandro gives Edmonton City Council two weeks to solve a problem decades in the making
“I have been raising these issues with the provincial government and asking them to step up to help to deal with them. So far they have neglected these asks.” – Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi
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Kenney Government’s persistent habit of advocating U.S.-style gun laws bears repeating, and remembering
Even without the possibility of a wholesale attack on Canadian gun laws by some future Conservative government, we shouldn’t be smug about being on the safe side of the 49th Parallel.
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Jobs Minister Doug Schweitzer says he won’t seek UCP leadership, and he won’t run for re-election in Calgary-Elbow
Doug Schweitzer may have looked at the state in which Mr. Kenney has left the UCP and decided, it’s not worth the effort! He may have concluded his own re-election chances are slim.
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Guest Post by Brad Lafortune: Edmonton’s proposed encampment strategy violates human rights
Housing is a human right. An encampment is a rights claim, a claim to housing, because there are no other options.
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Motion to debate mediator’s recommended contract sets stage for confrontation at Alberta Teachers Association meeting today
An open letter signed by three former ATA presidents calling for teachers to reject the mediator’s recommended contract landed like a bombshell yesterday at the first day of the ATA’s annual meeting.
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Three former Alberta Teachers Association presidents urge teachers to reject mediator’s recommended contract
The letter from Carol Henderson, Frank Bruseker, and Larry Booi may not be unprecedented in the annals of labour relations, but it is certainly unusual.
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Heeeeere’s Kenney! Alberta’s premier is back by unpopular demand!
It’s very hard to believe that most backbench UCP MLAs, even those who have some time for Jason Kenney, can be very happy about him sticking around.