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.
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Ho! Ho! Ho! Christmas comes a little early for the Trans Mountain Pipeline as Ottawa guarantees another couple o’ billion
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.