As bad as the release of the personal data of three million Albertans in the province’s list of electors to virtually every fraudster and propagandist in the world turns out to be, it could have been worse! And it’s only because a public employee had the good sense and courage to stand up to the […]
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Danielle Smith – the public face of foreign interference in Canada – gets Canadian security clearance
Danielle Smith, who is basically the public face of foreign interference in Canada, has been given a Canadian “Top Secret” security clearance, her press secretary said on Thursday. According to Sam Blackett, in conversation with The Canadian Press, “the premier has now obtained her top-secret clearance in order to receive briefings on issues related to […]
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Horse gone; barn door now shut: Elections Alberta issues 568 cease-and-desist letters
Now that the metaphorical horse has departed the proverbial barn for pastures unknown, Alberta’s toothless elections agency says it’s slamming the barn door shut. At any rate, Elections Alberta officials told the CBC yesterday that the evening before Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure had sent cease-and-desist letters to 568 people involved one way or another […]
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Independent MLA Scott Sinclair delivers abject apology to former UCP colleagues
The Chestnut Tree was almost empty. A ray of sunlight slanting through a window fell on dusty table-tops. It was the lonely hour of fifteen. A tinny music trickled from the telescreens. — George Orwell, 1984 There is no Chestnut Tree Café in Edmonton. There is no need. There is the Chamber of the Alberta […]
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At least one UCP staffer attended April 16 demo of database that used restricted personal information
It takes a certain ingenuity for a crooked government to keep its scandals hidden. Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your perspective – that’s a talent Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party seem to lack. Yesterday the Opposition NDP revealed in a news release it had “obtained video evidence that appears to show that […]
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Separatists deliver their petition signatures, try to create an impression of unstoppable momentum
Separatists Mitch Sylvestre and Jeff Rath showed up at Elections Alberta headquarters in Edmonton yesterday afternoon with a big crowd of flag-waving supporters and a trailer full of boxes of petition forms calling for a referendum on Alberta separating from Canada. They said their “Stay Free Alberta” petition has gathered 301,620 signatures, more than the […]
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Purloined List of Electors imbroglio moves to the next stage: the search for a fall guy
His pro-separation Centurion Project having essentially doxxed the entire adult population of Alberta, it would seem some of David Parker’s political allies don’t want to be associated with him just now. “Neither Stay Free Alberta or the Alberta Prosperity Society are affiliated with the Centurion Project or David Parker,” the ubiquitous separatist Jeffrey Rath said […]
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Massive List of Electors data breach was inevitable – the UCP’s law-bending style of politics made it so
It may have been the fringy Republican Party of Alberta that got caught letting data from its copy of Alberta’s 2.9-million-name voters’ list be published online in violation of the law, but it is the law-bending style of politics embedded in this province by the United Conservative Party that made such a breach inevitable. Meanwhile, […]
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A rotten poll for the NDP begs the question: When will the knives come out for Naheed Nenshi?
When will the knives come out for Naheed Nenshi? The NDP is not the Conservatives, even the united ones out here in Alberta, and historically New Democrats have been more tolerant of their leaders’ failings than Conservatives have been of theirs. Still, there’s a point at which something’s gotta give. It’s easy to be forgiving […]
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What got into Rick Wilson when he said he saw someone die ‘right in front of me’ at supervised consumption site?
What the heck got into Rick Wilson last week? Last Tuesday, Alberta’s minister of mental health and addiction, was responding to a question in the Legislature about an allegation of a lack of transparency at the provincial government’s so-called Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence in the context of the United Conservative Party’s policy of aggressively […]
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Surgical services minister says Alberta plans to set up a ‘voucher’ system for patients awaiting surgery
On April 21, “Hospital and Surgical Health Services Minister” Matt Jones got up on his hind legs in the Alberta Legislature and spoke the following words: “We’re looking at developing a voucher program where patients who have waited longer than clinically recommended can go to any approved or accredited provider in Alberta and get that […]
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Carrie Tait named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by National Newspaper Award judges for scoops about UCP corruption scandal
On Friday, Globe and Mail journalist Carrie Tait and four of her colleagues received a National Newspaper Award for their work exposing dodgy health-care contracts tied to Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government. Ms. Tait, who works out of the newspaper’s Alberta bureau in Calgary, and reporters Alanna Smith, Tom Cardoso, Mark MacKinnon, and Stephanie Chambers […]