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.
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Danielle Smith squirms at thought of Jason Kenney’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act used against her allies
Don’t forget that the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act intrudes into federal jurisdiction and is intended to criminalize legal and constitutionally protected behaviour.
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Some amusing thoughts on Wexit, Wexitry, and Wexiteers in a potentially confusingly united Western Canada
What happens to Wexit, Wexitry and the Wexiteers if it starts to look as if there could be a sweep across the western provinces of … New Democrats?
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No surprise, Alberta’s privatized surgery clinics don’t seem to be doing anything to reduce wait times
With UCP promises unmet, NDP health critic says private clinics aren’t helping.
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Rush to ‘Recovery Alberta’ mental health agency sure looks like an ideological drug-treatment hobbyhorse
Health worker unions warned the hurried implementation of the UCP’s mental health and addictions silo will sow chaos in public health care.