The UCP has been so relentless and self-righteous in its attacks on unions under Jason Kenney’s leadership that Travis Toews’s Toews’s social call on a union group has to be a surprise.
Posted inAlberta Politics
In Alberta, it would appear that Conservative politicians really can run and hide at the same time!
The UCP is an increasingly radicalized party in the Republican mould, and the rest of us are just going to have to live with whomever they choose – for a while, anyway.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Independence Day, freedom, the dog days of summer, and Pierre Poilievre’s profundities … plus the care and treatment of wood
If we Canadians are planning to build something worthwhile out of our recycled wood, we’d be advised to check it for rotten spots.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Canada Day 2022 – doesn’t look like this national holiday will herald the best summer ever, either
Last year on this day traditionally reserved for national celebration, the headline of the post that occupied this space read: “While Jason Kenney promises the best summer ever, it’s hard to shake the feeling of apocalyptic foreboding this Canada Day.” Once again, no one is now promising the “best summer ever.” Indeed, the sense of […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Bizarre UCP plan would see Alberta patients and their Alberta docs shipped to B.C. for surgeries, then shipped back
What the hell was the Kenney Government up to last fall when it had the brainstorm to compel Alberta Health Services to ship patients and their surgeons to an apparently under-used surgical facility in British Columbia’s Okanagan? The saga involving what NDP Opposition leader and former premier Rachel Notley called the “slightly less-than-reputable surgical facility” […]
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Give Jason Kenney, crowing about how good management made Alberta’s budget surplus possible, credit for chutzpah!
Give Jason Kenney credit for sheer brass! Yesterday, Alberta’s premier, so recently told by his own party to pack up his stuff and take a hike, was taking credit for the province’s unexpected recent resource jackpot. Finance Minister Jason Nixon having announced earlier in the day that Alberta will post a $3.9-billion surplus for the […]
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A thought on how Sundre can start to put the embarrassment of the racist jackassery in its rodeo parade behind it
The rodeo, town officials, and the people who rode on the embarrassing float should all take the Dashmesh Culture Centre up on its offer. There’s contact information on the centre’s website.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Protecting free speech on campus? Forget about it, Pierre Poilievre is just dog-whistling
The political value of such right-wing dog-whistles tends to outweigh the practical application of supposed “free speech” rules, such as they may be.
Posted inCanadian Politics
As predicted, Canadian Conservatives want you to shut up about U.S. Supreme Court’s repugnant Roe v. Wade ruling
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling stripping half the United States’ 330 million people of their constitutional right to abortion, Canadian conservatives were busy trying to deny the intention of many in their political movement to do the exactly same thing here, as soon as possible. Were the situation south of the […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Told to take a hike by UCP, former Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman says he’ll run to lead Conservatives anyway
Since his days as a junior member of Ed Stelmach’s Progressive Conservative cabinet, the Edmonton Emergency Room physician has left a trail of political devastation in his wake.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Portraying Alberta and federal Conservative parties as hot messes, Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner says she won’t join UCP leadership race
Rempel Garner portrays the UCP as rife with “heated exchanges to get basic concerns addressed, unjustified insularity in decision making, shunnings, exclusionary cliques and more.”
Posted inCanadian Politics
Parliament’s budget watchdog concludes TMX is almost certainly a loser – no matter what Ottawa does
Yesterday’s Parliamentary Budget Office report requires reading between the lines to try to figure out which course of action – pumping or dumping – makes more sense in the long run.