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 […]
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Danielle Smith launches tax-funded propaganda blitz to pump fall referendum drive
What we do know is that the United Conservative Party Government led by Premier Danielle Smith yesterday launched a propaganda blitz that will use all Albertans’ tax contributions to persuade voters to vote Yes next fall on a series of ballot questions on constitutional and immigration questions. The government’s news release framed the announcement merely […]
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Yup, that UCP gerrymandering scheme is just a plan to cheat … and, thanks, Naheed Nenshi, for the shout-out!
Many thanks to Naheed Nenshi for his shout out in the Alberta Legislature Tuesday. Mind you, the NDP Opposition Leader was kind of complaining about me, but as Oscar Wilde famously observed, “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” This can be […]
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UCP bulls ahead with scheme to dump bi-partisan electoral boundaries report and cook up a friendlier riding map
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government isn’t even trying to fake it any more. They bulled ahead in the Legislature yesterday with a scheme to dump the report of the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replace the bi-partisan body with a special select committee stacked with UCP MLAs to cook up a gerrymandered electoral map designed to […]
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Dani the Decider has decided and you’re getting permanent daylight savings time whether you like it or not!
“Albertans have very strong opinions about daylight saving time and the results of the referendum show that, right now, Albertans prefer to continue changing their clocks,” Nate Glubish, then the minister of Service Alberta, said sadly in a news release published on Oct. 26, 2021. “There is no right or wrong answer on DST,” Mr. […]