Albertans are quite familiar with the concept of political stunts – and spending $80 to $100 million on substandard Turkish children’s medicine just to own the Libs fits the definition nicely.
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Edmonton mayor to ask city councillors to declare housing and homelessness emergency on Monday, ruffling UCP feathers
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government was clearly not happy with this development and published a statement criticizing the mayor.
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A potentially deadly ‘Tylenot’ gong show: Can Alberta’s UCP government be trusted to do anything right?
Here’s a suggestion for Alberta’s government: Get rid of it all right now. Nobody wants the stuff and it’s just taking up space that could be used for something else.
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Judge upholds Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s $6,000 fine but the organization’s dubious credibility will likely survive
The CTF needn’t have worried. At this point, the possibility a mere $6,000 fine would deliver a fatal blow to its dubious credibility seems quaint.
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Expect more chaos in health care, already overwhelmed and at the brink, as AHS ‘senior leaders’ get orders to cut costs
Forget about blaming health care workers for sick time and overtime. The UCP Government, which has concentrated all control of public health care in the premier’s and health minister’s offices, own this.
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As temperatures drop, police and city crews continue rousts of homeless encampments, government pitches winter camping
More than 3,300 people and organizations have now signed a letter urging Edmonton City Council to intervene to seek a moratorium on the rousts of homeless encampments.
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Engaged citizens need to take it seriously when UCP leaders start talking about mass purges in health care and education
It seems likely that the UCP has been inspired by former U.S. president Donald Trump’s vow that if he returns to office he will quickly purge as many as 50,000 U.S. federal public employees.
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He’s baaaack! Jason Kenney on Donald Trump – and maybe Danielle Smith and Take Back Alberta, too
So, you see Dear Readers, it turns out all Alberta’s pandemic problems were the fault of the single-payer medicare system, the media, the Opposition, and two or three reckless evangelical pastors!
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Happy New Year! By the time you read this, Alberta’s fuel tax holiday will be history
The problem for Premier Danielle Smith, Finance Minister Nate Horner and the UCP on Day 1 of a new year isn’t that the policy of keeping the gas tax doesn’t make sense, it does, but that the optics suck.
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What can we expect from the UCP in 2024? Not just more of the same – a lot more!
How does one provide thoughtful analysis when the UCP Government’s obvious plan going forward is: Same s**t, different year?
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Letter implores Edmonton mayor and council to intervene to halt ‘violent and disruptive decampment’ planned today
Edmonton police are expected to start breaking up some of the homeless camps in downtown Edmonton this morning.
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AlbertaPolitics.ca as its 17th year of publication begins: we need to talk, Dear Readers
Not only has the newspaper business gone to hell in a handbasket, now social media is going to the same place via the same mode of transportation. This is a serious problem for blogs like this one.