Many have tried to pierce Danielle Smith’s political armour but few have succeeded; Jeromy Farkas may have just put a dent in it Late Monday night, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas took to social media and called out Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for her bullshit. His word. Not mine. It was a bravura performance that raises […]
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Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas wins Round One of bitter Twitter window-rattle battle
But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sends letter telling Calgary City Council to roll over or the province will step in It’s not over, but Round One of last weekend’s intergovernmental noise bylaw fracas – which channelling the late Dr. Seuss, we might call a bitter Twitter window-rattle battle – goes to Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas. […]
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Prominent Conservatives go wild on social media attacking Calgary’s conservative mayor
The topic of their ire? The City of Calgary’s noise bylaw! What’s with that, anyway? Over the weekend, prominent Conservative political figures including Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, many of the other usual suspects on the right, and eventually what appeared to be flocks of right-wing online bots took to […]
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Bold move or big mistake? Naheed Nenshi implores Ottawa to step in and force Alberta to drop surgery line-jumping scheme
Send ‘a strong signal that Canada works’ NDP Opposition leader urges PM Mark Carney in letter Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi called yesterday on Ottawa to step in and use the Canada Health Act to force Alberta’s government to drop its plan to allow surgeons to practice in the public health care system while at the […]
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UCP plunges ahead with scheme to Americanize health care by letting patients with money jump the line for surgeries
Premier Danielle Smith’s pathetic $100 Dani Dollars gambit having flopped miserably with pretty well everyone on Wednesday, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government plunged ahead yesterday with its previously announced scheme to Americanize public health care by allowing physicians to bill patients to jump the lines for surgeries. A lot of voters are going to really […]
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Wow! 3.4 million Albertans will qualify for $100 ‘Dani Dollars’ energy rebate – enough for maybe half a tank of gas
Apparently no one in the United Conservative Party cabinet has to shop for their own groceries these days! How else do you explain the lamest stunt in Alberta political history? Premier Danielle Smith and Finance Minister Jason Nixon got up on their hind legs yesterday at a press conference in front of a row of […]
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Jack Mintz, chair of panel studying pros and cons of Alberta separation, seems to have made up his mind in favour of secession
The problem with Jack Mintz leading the committee that’s supposedly tasked with determining the pros and cons of Alberta separation is that he already appears to have made up his mind in favour of secession. “Albertans need to know and understand the potential impacts of separating from Canada,” said Dr. Mintz, who has for many […]
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Four NDP MLAs, three of them cabinet veterans, announce plans to retire after next election
Four high-profile New Democrat MLAs, two from Edmonton and two from Calgary, will not seek re-election, the Opposition party in the Alberta Legislature said yesterday. Three of them – Calgary-Buffalo MLA Joe Ceci, Edmonton-Riverview MLA Lori Sigurdson, and Edmonton-Gold Bar MLA Marlin Schmidt – were first elected in the NDP sweep of 2015 and served […]
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UCP’s ‘independent advisory panel’ on Alberta secession costs is likely to defend Canada on separatist terms
The “independent advisory panel” named yesterday by Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government to look into the “potential economic impacts of secession” illustrates an observation the day before by a prominent Canadian political commentator that too many self-identified federalists are likely to defend Canada on separatist terms. Writing in The Globe and Mail, columnist Andrew Coyne […]
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Voters risk whiplash watching Danielle Smith switch sides back and forth in Alberta separation fight
Watching Danielle Smith switch back and forth from striving to get her party’s large contingent of separatists to settle down to trying to keep severely normal Albertans who want no part of separation on side is enough to give you whiplash. It’s starting to feel like we’re watching a really fast game of tennis while […]
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Polls last week suggest ‘low and declining appetite for separation in Alberta’
A public opinion survey published last Friday by the Ipsos polling firm suggests that support for separation from Canada is both limited and decreasing in Alberta, a trend that I’m betting will grow more evident as Albertans start paying attention to what Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Government have perpetrated by starting the […]
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How do we explain Danielle Smith’s out-of-the-blue promise last week her government will cost out separation by August?
The folks who control the big bucks in Alberta must finally have realized what Danielle Smith’s separation referendum is about to do to their profit potential. How else can we explain Premier Smith’s out-of-the-blue promise last week that her government would fully cost out separation by August and her observation at a news conference she […]