As for what Alberta would do with the pharmacare money if the feds were so foolish as to just fork it over as the province wants, it is profoundly to be hoped that will remain a mystery.
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Edmonton-Rutherford MLA Jodi Calihoo Stonehouse and AFL President Gil McGowan join NDP leadership race
The winner of the leadership contest is expected to be named on June 22.
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Danielle Smith keeps saying she’s going to ‘de-risk’ natural-gas-fired electricity generation – what exactly does she have in mind?
“De-risking,” Alberta style, is likely to involve providing public subsidies to either the electricity generation industry or the natural-gas extraction industry, or both.
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The premier’s speech: A spectre still isn’t haunting Alberta, the spectre of fair taxes
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith diagnosed Alberta’s fiscal problem correctly, then prescribed the wrong medicine.
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Don’t imagine for a moment the UCP has lost interest in getting its paws on your pension
Behind the scenes dubious UCP allies are hard at work ginning up late submissions to the “engagement panel” in a desperate effort to tilt the responses back the government’s way.
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Rakhi Pancholi’s notion Alberta’s NDP should split from the federal party is a risky idea that should be left undisturbed
Disaffiliation would probably also require the federal NDP to change its constitution – opening a whole new forum for opponents to publicly relitigate the divorce.
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Amazingly, there’s actually a debate within the Alberta NDP about tax policy!
Despite hysterical rhetoric about the NDP emanating from the right, especially out on the Great Plains, there’s very little light between the NDP and the so-called conservative party on tax policy.
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Is denigrating women in politics by mocking their appearance OK with the UCP? If it isn’t, the silence is deafening
Surely the time has come for someone within the UCP to speak up and publicly condemn the kinds of things that Take Back Alberta founder David Parker has to say.
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Sarah Hoffman knows who she is and has no apologies – and she wants to lead an Alberta NDP true to its New Democratic roots
The former NDP health minister, who joined the Alberta NDP leadership race today, says the consumer carbon tax is “dead in the water” and vows to repair trust with health workers broken by the UCP.
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Citing health issues, David Shepherd announces he won’t be joining the NDP leadership race
A professional musician and lifelong Edmonton resident, David Shepherd said a particular mission for him was “to engage, support and empower African, Caribbean and Black communities.”
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MLA Rakhi Pancholi formally joins NDP leadership contest, says she could drop consumer carbon tax
Rakhi Pancholi has mused about replacing the carbon tax with other measures. It’ll be interesting to see whether such a degree of political realism can fly in the face of NDP orthodoxy.
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CTV gets hammered for credulous reporting of dodgy poll by deceptively named company
The poll – excoriated as unethical and methodologically unsound – purported to show a majority of Albertans think minors seeking abortions should be required to tell their parents.