Meanwhile, no matter how full the province’s hospitals are, Premier Danielle Smith still can’t bring herself to encourage Albertans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or influenza.
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Danielle Smith dodges and weaves, but doesn’t deny, report government ordered AHS not to mention COVID or flu in vaccine ads
News conference about government’s response to doctor shortage turns into grilling on government interference in AHS vaccination advertising.
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Steven Guilbeault is keeping someone busy writing unhinged jeremiads for Danielle Smith!
Apparently federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has become the new Tzeporah Berman, or maybe the new David Suzuki, with the power to make Alberta’s premier go nuts!
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Ethics investigations, Alberta, style – no rules were broken when Deena Hinshaw was fired! Now please move along, folks …
Whodunnit? It can never be said that an investigation of the sort conducted by Alberta’s ethics commissioner has vindicated anyone.
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After a day of negotiations, deal lightly taps the brakes on mass Christmas clearances of Edmonton homeless camps
Meanwhile, UCP makes it harder to solve housing crisis. Plus, news stories cast light on premier’s apparent interference in AHS.
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Police officer swears city officials agreed with plan to drive Edmonton homeless people from encampments before Christmas
So far, there’s no evidence anyone at the City of Edmonton has instructed its lawyers not to continue to argue Monday to allow the police to sweep the streets of homeless encampments.
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Edmonton mayor appears to have been blindsided by city police plan for Christmas roust of eight homeless encampments next week
Peace on Earth? Good will to men? Not if they’re poor and living on the streets of Edmonton! This sounds more like something out of the pages of the Grapes of Wrath!
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Danielle Smith celebrates her return from COP28 with unhinged attack on federal environment minister
The bizarre and childish official statement is a classic example of Trump henchman Steve Bannon’s doctrine of flooding the zone.
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Battling bovine belches and fighting farmyard flatulence was all very well until Ottawa got involved – now it’s an outrage!
The latest UCP rage ranching illustrates a timeless principle of Alberta politics: Anything Ottawa does is bad, even if it’s good.
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LPNs’ application to join Direct Nursing Care bargaining unit summarily dismissed by Alberta Labour Relations Board
In the logic of the three-member ALRB panel that made the decision, what Licensed Practical Nurses themselves think or want apparently has nothing to do with the matter.
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‘Pause’ in Smith Government’s Alberta pension plan sales pitch sounds more like a strategic effort to regroup
The horse Jim Dinning signed on to flog is not yet officially declared dead, but it sure doesn’t look healthy enough to pull this rickety bandwagon!
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Expect Rachel Notley, NDP premier from 2015 to 2019 and current Opposition leader, to step down today
Prediction: Premier Danielle Smith is also likely to leave Alberta politics sooner than you expect.