Online voting started yesterday in the NDP leadership contest, which from the start has appeared to be a two-horse race between Avi Lewis and Heather McPherson. The auguries suggest Mr. Lewis is now in the lead and pulling farther ahead. Mr. Lewis is the scion of the Lewis political family, which has been prominent in […]
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Is the Alberta Prosperity Project having trouble finding enough Albertans willing to sign its separation petition?
Is the Alberta Prosperity Project having trouble finding enough Albertans willing to sign its Citizen Initiative Act petition to gets its separation referendum on the ballot next fall? One has to wonder. It seemed as if it wouldn’t be that hard for Alberta’s far-right separation crowd to get the 177,732 valid signatures needed under the […]
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Mark Carney made ‘terrible mistake’ by parroting Donald Trump’s justification for war on Iran, says historian and security expert
Prime Minister Mark Carney made “a terrible mistake” with his immediate full-throated support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, Canadian historian and security-intelligence expert Wesley Wark said yesterday. It’s hard to argue with Dr. Wark’s grim assessment that the hasty announcement by the PM while at the Canada-India Growth and Investment […]
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Nobody expected UCP Finance Minister Nate Horner to deliver an NDP budget, but yesterday he did!
Surely nobody expected Finance Minister Nate Horner to stand up in the Alberta Legislature yesterday and table an NDP budget. But that’s pretty much what he did. In the leadup to the 2026 Budget Speech, Mr. Horner made lots of noises about hard choices, tough times, and how Albertans don’t back down from challenges. “In […]
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Get ready for the ‘Blame-it-all-on Trudeau Budget’ – don’t expect many other surprises either
This afternoon, Finance Minister Nate Horner will rise in the Legislature to read Alberta’s Budget Speech. One hopes Mr. Horner has bought himself a nice new pair of shoes, as is uniquely traditional for finance ministers on Budget Days in Canada. That should offer some psychic compensation for having to admit he’s about to post […]
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UCP: We’re making a historic investment in finding doctors! Physicians: Say what? First we heard about it!
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government hasn’t quite taken to posting unexpected proclamations in ALL CAPS on Truth Social at 2 a.m., but Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement yesterday that Thursday’s budget would have an additional $1.4 billion in it for “physician recruitment, training, compensation and development” was trending that way. “We are making the largest investment […]
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Once more unto the breach with Rakhi Pancholi – the NDP’s deputy leader eviscerates Danielle Smith’s claims
United Conservative Party strategists must be thanking their Judeo-Christian deity that Rakhi Pancholi isn’t the leader of the Opposition. With Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi nowhere to be found Friday morning, Ms. Pancholi took up the task of eviscerating the long list of intentionally confusing referendum questions announced by Premier Danielle Smith in her prime-time […]
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Danielle Smith announces a raft of referenda, seemingly designed to advance the UCP’s separatist agenda
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith yesterday announced a raft of referendum questions for Oct. 19 demanding provincial intrusion into federal jurisdiction, cutting services to new Canadians and other anti-immigrant measures, and seeking significant changes to the Canadian constitution. There will be five wordy policy referenda focusing on immigration and clearly designed to appeal to the United […]
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Alberta Conservatives fume as Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux jumps ship for the Liberals
As everybody in Canada surely knows by now, Alberta Member of Parliament Matt Jeneroux has crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals, who whether you like it or not appear still to be the Natural Governing Party of Canada. Mr. Jeneroux made the announcement in a letter […]
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Ric McIver states unequivocally he is not a supporter of Alberta separatism
Ric McIver, Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, has stated categorically he is not a supporter of Alberta separating from Canada. In an emailed response to questions sent to United Conservative Party MLAs whose names appeared on a list of supposed separation sympathizers cooked up by the Republican Party of Alberta and published last spring on […]
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The new country Alberta’s separatist minority is dreaming of would never be a real democracy
One unacknowledged assumption is most certainly shared by the would-be leaders of a “free” Alberta: The new country they hope to create could not function as a democracy. Indeed, from the perspective of the many aspiring Fathers of Deconfederation (and that of Premier Danielle Smith among the vanishingly small number of their maternal counterparts) the […]
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Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms?
Whatever became of those elusive “triage liaison” docs who were supposed to be a Band-Aid on the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms while the United Conservative Party Government figured out how to solve a problem that’s the result of nearly 40 years of Conservative policy negligence? They seem to have completely disappeared … without […]