In 2015, the Wildrose Party was outraged the NDP didn’t meet the late U.S. Senator at the airport with a brass band and a bouquet of roses Lest we forget, fellow Canadians, the late Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, was so unnerved by Donald Trump that in 2016 he admitted he almost wanted to […]
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Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition
Combined with ongoing UCP electoral jiggery-pokery, this is turning into a genuine crisis of democratic legitimacy Public sentiment that something’s gravely wrong with the methodology used by Elections Alberta to abort musician and clean-water advocate Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition appears to be growing. On Wednesday, CBC Edmonton reported that an analysis […]
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UCP’s ‘constitutional’ referendum questions push a grab-bag of right-wing policy goals intended to divide and weaken Canada
Through commission and omission, the final four questions we must deal with on Oct. 19 aim to support a provincial march into federal jurisdiction – say no to all nine! On Wednesday we considered the five tendentious questions about immigration that Danielle Smith’s Government intends to put on a ballot on Oct. 19, 2026. I […]
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Meta announcement shows Alberta’s determination to welcome AI data centres, public anxiety notwithstanding
Other than a few jobs and modest annual government revenues, it’s not completely clear what benefits these massive plants will bring to Alberta With yesterday’s announcement of plans by Meta Platforms Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., to build a massive Artificial Intelligence data centre northeast of Edmonton it has become clearer than ever that the […]
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UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism
The ballot questions on immigration aim to create conditions that would allow human rights violations and intrusions into federal jurisdiction Let’s take a look today at some of the “referendum questions” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government plans to put on a ballot next fall. In addition to its separatist mischief, Ms. Smith’s […]
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Danielle Smith and Doug Ford, each facing criticism at home, announce performative pre-election pipeline pact
A northern route to Sarnia for Alberta heavy crude might have potential, but don’t bet the farm at Hardisty yet Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement in Calgary yesterday of a “potential east-west pipeline” while accompanied by her Ontarian counterpart Doug Ford sounds more like a bit of brightly coloured pre-election confetti than an actual plan. […]
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There’s no need to worry about plans to build a huge electricity plant and AI data centre near Edmonton, Danielle Smith insists
Alberta’s premier claims it’ll probably reduce electricity costs; don’t count on that, though, says the Pembina Institute But what about that other Alberta Government announcement on Thursday? Thursday afternoon at 3:30, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Utilities Minister RJ Sigurdson climbed up on a stage in Calgary with a couple of corporate bosses to announce […]
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Corb Lund expresses ‘grave concerns’ about how Elections Alberta rejected his ‘Water Not Coal’ petition
‘This has been an unreasonable and opaque process from the beginning,’ musician and reluctant environmentalist says After learning that 35,000 signatures on Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition had been ruled invalid on various grounds by Elections Alberta – enough for the provincial elections agency to ensure there is no ballot question on […]
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Channelling Mackenzie King, Mark Carney strikes a pipeline deal with Alberta and British Columbia
Saving Canada and saving the planet? Not necessarily a pipeline, but a pipeline if necessary! Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared last night to have threaded the needle between Alberta and British Columbia, joining Danielle Smith in Calgary to announce that the Alberta Government is OK with a southern pipeline route that avoids some of the […]
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Finance Minister Jason Nixon admits Alberta just missed its annual fiscal report deadline, offers two lame excuses
Government news release fails to mention the omission actually breaks the law, but there’s no penalty, so why worry? Happy Canada Day! The summer solstice has already come and gone. So has the deadline for Alberta’s fiscal-year-end update! The next summer solstice won’t be back till June 21, 2027, of course, but we can be […]
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UCP Calgary-Shaw by-election nomination winner assailed as ‘extremist’ by NDP
Mike Derry’s choice as candidate has upset a couple of apple carts for the UCP; the Opposition NDP demands he state his position on separation When Mike Derry beat the United Conservative Party’s apparent preferred candidate for the nomination in Rebecca Schulz’s old Calgary-Shaw riding on June 24, the Opposition New Democratic Party immediately branded […]
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A summertime mystery: Why has Danielle Smith flip-flopped on forcing public health inspectors to switch employers?
Despite the Alberta premier’s explanation, it’s hard to believe the idea was a phone-in radio show caller’s When someone named Lori called Danielle Smith’s phone-in radio program on Saturday and proposed a way to restructure a controversial plan to move Alberta health inspectors from an arm’s length health agency into a government department, it was […]