With the leak of the shocking/not shocking plan by the Republican-packed majority on the now thoroughly politicized U.S. Supreme Court to allow American states to ban abortions outright and speed the republic toward theocracy, Canadian conservatives who drink from the same ideological well would very much like to shut down any discussion of that topic here.
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Open Letter from 58 researchers and docs assails safe drug supply study prepared for Alberta Legislature committee
The open letter to the Alberta Government’s Select Special Committee to Examine Safe Supply, which was released yesterday, highlighted eight major shortcomings in the report produced by researchers affiliated with the B.C.-based Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction.
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UCP’s instinct for making things worse turns Alberta’s ongoing hospital capacity crisis into a catastrophe
What has Alberta’s United Conservative Party done about Alberta’s growing hospital capacity crisis? Why, they’ve fired the competent, universally respected CEO of Alberta Health Services.
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Whitemud Walking, by Edmonton author Matthew James Weigel, tops Alberta Independent Bookshops’ non-fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 24, 2022.
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Sweet Home Alberda? Jason Kenney, the Rodney Dangerfield of Canada, holds forth on pipelines, petroleum, and Pawliver
Brace yourselves, Albertans. Premier Jason Kenney says his government is “willing in principle to participate in de-risking a major pipeline.” That means forking over more cash, obviously.
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It’s a big deal when a judge rules that if cabinet secrecy isn’t in the public interest it can be tossed aside
A Calgary judge has ruled the public interest in answers about what the Alberta cabinet was advised about COVID-19 restrictions “outweighs the public interest in keeping the evidence confidential.”
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Now for something a little different: Podcasting about Alberta politics
It was nice of the lads at the True North Eager Beaver Podcast to sit down and let me bloviate about one of my favourite topics, Alberta’s unexpected political crisis and what it means for the province’s increasingly frenetic premier, for more than an hour recently. When Douglas Connors asked me to join him and […]
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A party divided against itself cannot stand – especially when so many members can’t stand their leader
The UCP may not fall as a result of its divisions. But after the result of the party’s leadership review vote is announced on May 18, it’ll have to be either all Jason Kenney or no Jason Kenney at all!
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UCP effort to blame NDP for electricity price spike suggests Opposition attacks are hitting the mark
How else can we explain the UCP gas and electricity associate minister’s attempt yesterday to blame the NDP’s policies while it was in government for electricity price surges now being experienced by Albertans?
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With Jason Kenney seemingly foundering, Alberta’s No. 2 Jason, Nixon, finds himself in the spotlight
Kenney rival Brian Jean recently gave his extremely unflattering opinion of Jason Nixon to the editor of a rural newspaper. Yesterday, the UCP House Leader’s notorious F-bomb was back in the news.
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Jason Kenney tells ‘Alberta at Work’ news conference a spectre is haunting Alberta – the spectre of public auto insurance!
The sums of money associated with the UCP’s job training program are substantial – but the announcement needs some serious number crunching to see where Peter is being robbed to pay Paul.
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Michelle Good’s perennial favourite, Five Little Indians, remains atop Alberta independent bookshops’ bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 10, 2022.