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.
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Premiers can agree not to poach health care workers from one another, but that’s easier said than done
No amicable premiers’ no-poaching agreement can keep health care professionals from talking to one another! Plus, how Alberta’s the place where bad ideas go to live forever.
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Danielle Smith and Tucker Carlson: Four reasons the Alberta premier will join the far-right American bloviator on stage
Here’s why Danielle Smith is going to go ahead and appear on stage with Tucker Carlson: She agrees with him. She’s a fan. It solves a political problem. She thinks she can get away with it.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Danielle Smith summons Ed Stelmach, Lyle Oberg from the Alberta political crypt to help sell the breakup of AHS
The early release of the briefing notes by the NDP seems to have forced the government to move up its press conference by a day to try to recover lost ground.
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Back to the future: UCP set to announce plan to bust up AHS, add reams of red tape, and politicize health care decisions
Danielle Smith says she is “100 per cent committed” to leaked plan to replace Alberta Health Services with new health boards, agencies, bureaucracy, all directed out of her office.
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‘Lunatics’ really are running the asylum: UCP-TBA fusion starts to sink in with the Alberta commentariat
What’s changed as of yesterday is that Take Back Alberta and other like-minded groups in the UCP are no longer just a powerful faction of the party, they are the whole damn thing!
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Take Back Alberta victory in UCP board elections wasn’t that steep a hill to climb – the party went full MAGA ages ago
David Parker, TBA’s founder, chief ideologist and chief executive, tweeted “Veni, vedi, vici” last night. Just remember, Caesar said it first, and it sounded like “Weenie, Weedy, Weakie.”
Posted inCanadian Politics
Chrystia Freeland says Canada’s chief actuary will determine how much cash Alberta would actually get if it pulls out of the CPP
When we heard Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner say yesterday he’s encouraged to hear that the federal government will ask the Government of Canada’s chief actuary to determine how much cash Alberta would actually get if it were to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan, we could predict with reasonable confidence he won’t be […]
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As Edmonton activist Michael Kalmanovitch sees it, with the planet afire, he had no choice but to raise a ruckus at the Legislature
There has been fallout. Speaker Nathan Cooper is said to have decreed guests will never again be seated inside the legislative chamber.
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UCP expands role of government’s chief advisor on union negotiations, former AUPE negotiator Kevin Davediuk
Once excoriated as a union fox in the taxpayer henhouse by Conservative politicians and right-wing editorialists, Kevin Davediuk has now in effect been made Alberta’s Public Pay Czar.
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The mystery of Bill 5: Is it part of the UCP’s covert ‘Free Alberta’ agenda or just a bit of administrative housekeeping?
Albertans should be paying attention to the separatist project that animates the government of Premier Smith and measuring all UCP policies against it.
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Alberta’s Throne Speech was long, boring, unpersuasive, evasive, unoriginal, and defiantly aspirational
The Speech from the Gallery, by contrast, was concise, frank, and could turn out to be a more accurate prophecy of Alberta’s future than the one in the official disquisition.