Where is Brian Jean, Alberta’s increasingly hirsute Energy Minister who neither accompanied the premier to Dubai nor affixed his name to today’s inflammatory statement?
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United Conservative Party Government tells Alberta nurses: Don’t worry, there’s no list, and you’re not on it!
Alberta’s health care recruiting program now appears to be: Come to Alberta where we will immediately threaten to lay you off!
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Layover in Dubai: Who are the ‘hundreds’ of Albertans accompanying Danielle Smith – and who’s paying the freight?
For all the world it looks as if Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson are indulging their independence fantasy and pretending to be a national delegation to COP28. They’re not.
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The last thing Alberta New Democrats need is a dumb fight over their name, which is just fine as it is
The NDP is the only Alberta party that now offers government by grownups. That’s the brand. Leave it alone!
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#Kudatah? Not quite – even Danielle Smith admits this Sovereignty Act stuff is mostly performative fluff
To say the introduction of the first Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act resolution in the Alberta Legislature yesterday is performative is the understatement of the year, and the year is almost over.
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Danielle Smith to implement Alberta Sovereignty Act, legislation Jason Kenney called ‘full-frontal attack on the rule of law’
Something for Alberta’s UCP leaders to think about: History doesn’t offer many examples of nation states that just cheerfully allow themselves to be dissected.
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About those very expensive bottles of children’s ‘Tylenot’ – where’s the CTF when you need it?
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that Canada’s self-described “non-partisan tax watchdog” would be all over the UCP’s purchase of unwanted children’s medication that no one wanted like white on rice?
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Manning to Alberta Conservative MPs (and 1 Liberal): Supposedly non-partisan pandemic report ‘could be used by the CPC’
What did Premier Danielle Smith make of this revelation the report is nothing more than a publicly funded partisan document? Preston Manning “used his personal email to do it,” she responded. OK then!
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H * l y S h * t! Who could possibly have known why China picked on those Two Michaels back in 2020?
Whatever Michaels Spavor and Kovrig were actually up to, there’s egg all over the faces of the Canadian political, media and intelligence establishments tonight.
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Danielle Smith delivers more promised chaos in health care with purge of six senior AHS executives
The purge of senior Alberta Health Services officials by the United Conservative Party that began yesterday is likely to paralyze decision making throughout the provincial health care system.
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Preston Manning’s pandemic panel report wants more politicians, fewer docs calling public health shots
Preston Manning, 81, has dropped his doorstopper recommending we quit just listening to scientists and physicians in the event of another pandemic and give equal time to “alternative scientific narratives.”
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Red Deer Catholic school trustee who compared pride flags to swastika banners is out – but that’s unlikely to be the end of the story
There are influential people in Alberta who share the former school trustee’s views and have a militant commitment to advancing them, and who will see an opportunity to engage in culture warfare.