Die-hard traditional New Democrats cannot turn back the clock to the days the NDP was a minuscule party of conscience.
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The Municipal Government Act already gives the government power to fire councillors – so why fix what ain’t broke?
Soviet-style government? Angry words about the NDP from 2016 sound like what the UCP is up to now.
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UCP’s legislation sets stage for municipal political parties, arbitrary nullification of bylaws, and firing of councillors by cabinet
Presumably the UCP hopes the threat of a cabinet-sanctioned city hall coup would be enough to get municipal councillors to knuckle under.
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Plan to have patients at Calgary clinic pony up ‘membership fees’ might have had a chance if the UCP’s War on Ottawa had heated up sooner
With a federal election looming, Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP is focused on picking fights with Ottawa, and just about any old fight will do.
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Busted! Globe outs Danielle Smith’s unpublicized pandemic data ‘task force’ headed by physician who attacked COVID restrictions
In 2021, AHS condemned Dr. Gary Davidson for his “completely false” claim the province manipulated COVID admission numbers. Now he’s leading a UCP study of the same thing!
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Once upon a time Danielle Smith told Marco Van Huigenbos, ‘Coutts must win!’ Now she can’t even find the poor guy’s phone number
Members of the Legislature ‘even thanked me for my service,’ complained the former Fort Macleod town councillor. Now they can’t even remember his name.
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How did Danielle Smith know about an anonymous letter alleging dirty deeds at the city of Edmonton before it arrived?
To say the Alberta premier’s story strains credulity understates the matter considerably.
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Planned provincial police to be called Alberta Rangers? Brace yourselves for more Conservative cowboy cosplay!
Forming an Alberta police force is a bad idea. Calling it the Rangers is a really bad idea. Which means that’s almost certainly what the UCP intends to do.
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Inflation? Never heard of it! Finance Minister Nate Horner weighs in on public service bargaining
Unlike Alberta’s finance minister, unionized working people have noticed inflation, leading to proposals in bargaining for pay increases that seem large in percentage terms.
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Danielle Smith sets out to ensure the ideological purity of federally funded university research in Alberta
One wonders where the UCP got the idea of meddling in academic research funding, and if the government has any idea how much work it’s going to generate?
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Danielle Smith picks Alberta’s hill to die on: No to heat pumps, solar panels, and pharmacare
You want our forced-air gas furnaces, our diesel buses, Guilbeault? Come and take ’em!
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The Recovery War Room: Best practices if ideologically acceptable, but not necessarily best practices
It would be fair to conclude from the minister’s own words that the government wants only to evaluate what it has already decided will work.