Former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos has responded to the Alberta Government’s statement of defence in her wrongful dismissal suit with a briskly argued denial that lousy job performance had anything to do with why she was fired. The government’s lame response to reporters’ questions about situations described in Ms. Mentzelopoulos’s rebuttal document at […]
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Mark Carney comes back to Edmonton, warms up with Oilers, infuriates Danielle Smith
It may just be a political stunt when a prime minister comes to the capital city of Alberta, puts on his skates and a jersey with his own name on it and warms up with the local NHL team, which just happens to be called the Oilers, but you’ve got to admit it’s a hell […]
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Amid performative tantrum about ‘federal overreach,’ UCP tries to goad Mark Carney
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is having another tantrum about federal environmental regulatory overreach, mostly imagined, by the former Trudeau Government. Yesterday’s meltdown came in the form of an announcement about a bill to implement changes to former UCP premier Jason Kenney’s untested but probably unconstitutional Critical Infrastructure Defence Act that are obviously intended to […]
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Moribund newspaper chain names former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to its board
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., operator of the flagging chain of English-language Canadian newspapers and clickbait websites, yesterday announced the appointment of former Alberta Conservative premier Jason Kenney to its board of directors. It’s a revealing commentary on the state of affairs in Canadian media nowadays that the acquisition of Mr. Kenney’s services actually lends a […]
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Alberta 12-year-olds will soon be able to hunt without adult supervision using laser targeting devices
Hey, 12-year-olds in Alberta will soon be able to hunt without adult supervision using laser targeting devices on their hunting rifles! What could possibly go wrong? Parks and Forestry Minister Todd Loewen is at it again, introducing legislation that draws on a deep well of bad ideas about wildlife management and by all appearances a […]
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CUPE education workers in Fort Mac and Edmonton reach settlement deal after weeks on picket lines
After more than 17 weeks in some cases, braving temperatures that dipped into the sub 40s if you don’t count the wind-chill, education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Fort McMurray and Edmonton reached settlement agreements yesterday. The three mediated agreements between negotiators for CUPE’s locals and the Edmonton Public, Fort […]
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Despite his opponents’ constant and often deceitful yammering, Justin Trudeau grew in office, and history will remember him well
“You can hear him. The man is teary-eyed.” I speak, of course, of Rick Bell, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite political commentator. I hope Mr. Bell will forgive me for plagiarizing the lead of his March 8 column, in which he pretends that he isn’t sorry to see a choked-up Mr. Trudeau about to leave […]
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Former AHS CEO wants her wrongful dismissal lawsuit to skip oral questions and ‘proceed directly to trial’
Charging that “an army of lawyers at Bennett Jones has been hired to defend the Government, I assume at great expense to the taxpayer,” former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos said in a public statement yesterday she is “worried there’s a strategy to try to bring me to my knees financially.” Accordingly, Ms. Mentzelopoulos […]
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Sure looks like it’s pride that keeps the UCP from just dumping that useless Turkish ‘Tylenot’ it bought in 2022 to own the Libs
Pride, according to the Solomonic wisdom, goeth before destruction. Here in Wild Rose Country, though, it goeth before a big storage fee! So far, for example, it’s cost something like five and a half million Loonies in storage charges for unusable medicine and questionable COVID masks destined for the landfill! So it turns out that […]
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Reshuffling EMS services to a redundant new bureaucracy may not make much sense, but that’s what the UCP is doing
Now that most of the province’s ambulances and their crews have finally all been transferred to Alberta Health Services, the United Conservative Party Government has decided to transfer them all again, this time to its redundant and unneeded Acute Care Alberta entity. The changeover will officially take place on April 1, which seems appropriate. Why […]
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Jason Kenney is back on social media, and boy, does he sound cranky! So what’s up?
Jason Kenney is back! And, boy, does he sound cranky! What’s up? Once upon a time, Alberta’s first United Conservative Party premier was an industrious social media commentator – or at least someone on his public engagement staff was on his behalf – generating no shortage of hostile responses on Twitter, the microblogging application we […]
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With an election looming as our country faces a grave threat to its survival, it’s high time for Canada to ban Twitter/X
OTTAWA – Last year, as the U.S. government debated and then followed through on banning TikTok, Republican lawmakers advanced numerous arguments against allowing a hostile foreign power to control a significant medium of public discourse. They said a social media application owned by someone who is close to an autocratic leader might be used as […]