MLAs Shane Getson and Garth Rowswell seem an unlikely pair to be appeal to those European Green Marxists that Jason Kenney used to complain about, but you never know.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Calgary E. coli poisonings too serious a matter to be left to a committee led by a former Conservative candidate
With an impartial inquiry, the public could be confident any findings and recommendations had not been drafted with partisan political considerations in mind. It can have no such confidence now.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Manitobans elect an NDP government; the province’s Conservatives richly deserve their defeat
Surely the Manitoba Conservatives’ use of opposition to searching a Winnipeg landfill for the bodies of murdered First Nations women as a wedge issue was a new low in Canadian political discourse.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Conservative Danielle Smith vows to dismantle Alberta Health Services, Conservative Ed Stelmach’s greatest achievement
Welcome to the Twilight Zone! The mean little kids are in charge and they’re going to ‘fix’ Alberta Health Services.
Posted inCanadian Politics
If you don’t know basic facts about who was fighting whom in World War II, you’re not fit to hold public office
When you start to think seriously about what happened last Friday, it’s hard not to conclude that everyone involved looks like an idiot. And that includes some of the people complaining most loudly.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Talk about embarrassing! Jim Dinning lends his faded credibility to Danielle Smith’s pension snake oil scam
What a pathetic coda to the respectable if not quite illustrious political career of Jim Dinning!
Posted inAlberta Politics
We’re closed … but not for long (and we hope you had a happy Labour Day)
Thanks, and so long, and I’ll see y’all soon!
Posted inAlberta Politics
Proposed federal clean-electricity rules are ‘unaffordable blackout regulations’? … UCP environment minister floods the zone
What’s disappointing about this is the central role of Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz is playing in the UCP’s effort to flood the media with you-know-what.
Posted inAlberta Politics
It’s hard to take Danielle Smith’s hysterical outburst at federal environment minister very seriously
The plotline’s obvious. The UCP will use any stratagem to stall implementation of carbon reduction measures and renewable energy. And Ottawa doesn’t mind looking like the grownup in the room.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Social-conservative groups gear up for stealth takeover of Alberta school boards in coming elections
If you’re concerned about the MAGA assault on education, fasten your seatbelts, because it’s coming to Alberta. And like the warning on your car’s wing mirror, it’s closer than it looks.
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2,500-word Alberta ‘fact sheet’ tries to counter critics of freeze on new renewable electricity project approvals
Bottom line: Nothing is changing. The freeze will continue. The principal criticisms have been met with a lot of words, but not really answered.
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Estimated 24,000 jobs, $33B in investments at risk because of renewables freeze: Pembina Institute
The projects would have contributed an additional $263 million a year in tax and land-lease revenue to 27 different municipalities, the Pembina report says.