How do you report honestly on policies of the Smith Government, or the ridiculous and contradictory statements made by Premier Danielle Smith, without sounding like you’ve slipped your mooring?
Posted inAlberta Politics
Help was on the way? Looks like the goal of UCP’s $70M+ ‘Tylenot’ stunt was simply to own the Libs
UCP insiders seem remarkably calm about the Globe’s revelation Thursday Alberta will probably never receive about 70 per cent or 3.5 million bottles of the oddball Turkish-made medicine it squandered more than $70 million to buy.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Continuing CPP uproar means Danielle Smith and the UCP are getting what they want: the grownups are paying attention!
Canada’s finance ministers will get together to talk about how to respond to Alberta’s really bad, terrible, unpopular idea to ditch the Canada Pension Plan.
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International Energy Agency predicts fossil fuel use will peak by 2030 – whatever will Alberta have to say?
Maybe Alberta Premier Danielle Smith can send an open letter to Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, to accuse him of trying to frighten Alberta’s seniors. Or maybe she’ll say nothing at all about the World Energy Outlook report the IEA published yesterday, which concluded that our planet is hurtling toward a […]
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Congratulations on your appointment, Mr. Dinning, your pension ‘consultation’ has a few flaws: CPP public affairs leader
CPP public affairs chief Michel Leduc’s diplomatic but damning letter to Jim Dinning about the Alberta Government’s biased and manipulative pension ‘consultation’ really is a work of art.
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Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre joins Alberta pension plan uproar, proffers weak endorsement of Canada Pension Plan
Obviously, “I encourage Albertans to stay in the CPP” is pretty weak beer when it comes to an endorsement of our national pension plan.
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Will Danielle Smith’s pension scheme drive a wedge right into the heart of Conservative support?
Danielle Smith’s pension machinations have handed the Trudeau Government – seemingly on the ropes – the perfect way to let the air out of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s tires.
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Guest Post: Alberta has already killed the notorious Grassy Mountain coal mine, so why is it still alive?
The now infamous Grassy Mountain coal mine proposal is an “advanced” project only in the sense it’s advanced to the point of rejection? Is it because when money talks, the public interest walks?
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Canadian Ditchley Foundation tells TBA’s David Parker he’s out as a director; Premier Smith does damage control
In a bitter sounding tweet yesterday, the Take Back Alberta executive director complained that “the woke mob has succeeded in intimidating the Ditchley board to have me removed.”
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Take Back Alberta’s David Parker: MAGA rabble rouser or establishment elitist?
Given TBA director Parker’s views about masking, communism and COVID, not to mention his populist pose, it’s odd he serves on the board of the Canadian arm of an elite establishment organization.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Local decision making comes to Alberta acute care facilities, potentially undermining patient and public safety
The message between the lines of documents released by Alberta Health Services yesterday is that health care policies are now driven more by political considerations than public health and patient safety.
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Babylon, once the apple of the UCP’s eye, is fallen! A pre-Halloween tale from the Alberta health care crypt
It turns out Babylon Health’s leaders exaggerated the capabilities of its chatbot program, described as using AI, raising hopes in UCP circles it could all but make family physicians obsolete.