It would be fair to observe that senior health care management in Alberta appears to be becoming a less congenial place for women executives.
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Environment minister in government that won’t approve geothermal power projects visits new geothermal project in Germany
Irony is dead in Alberta.
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Meanwhile, across the continent in Maine, citizens are fighting to create a publicly owned, not-for-profit state electrical utility
Enmax Energy Corp., the utility company owned by the City of Calgary, has committed millions of dollars to a campaign to persuade voters in the U.S. state not to create a public, not-for-profit utility company.
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Thanks, Klein! Albertans are getting hammered as deregulated July electricity prices jump 128% over last year
High summer electricity prices are one impact of Alberta’s wide-open deregulated electricity market introduced by Ralph Klein’s Conservative government in 2000.
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United Conservative Party nationalizes privatized medical lab services – who saw that coming?
One crucial question about yesterday’s announcement remains unanswered: How much is this “de-privatization” going to cost?
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What’s next for Rachel Notley? Is there a path to the PMO for Alberta’s former NDP premier?
To be blunt, if the national NDP is going to survive it needs a leader stronger than Jagmeet Singh.
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Premier and feisty reporters spar over details of UCP plan to freeze new renewable electricity generation projects
About the best you can say about Ms. Smith’s constant positioning and repositioning the reasons for the moratorium is that it’s incoherent.
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How is it possible basic communications work for Alberta’s renewables freeze announcement wasn’t done?
So who cooked up this hare-brained scheme? Premier Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson, her chief advisor, probably.
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With freeze on renewables and vow to ignore federal net-zero rules, Alberta’s on its way to being a three-alarm international dumpster fire!
The only person who can be really happy about yesterday’s opera buffa in Alberta is Justin Trudeau.
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No sooner are renewable electricity-generation project approvals frozen by Alberta than ‘small modular reactors’ rear their heads again
Despite all the hullabaloo, at 300-megawatts power-generating capability, SMRs, so called, are probably too small to be economically viable.
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Danielle Smith in damage-control mode as freeze on new renewable electricity generation projects sparks hostility
The moratorium on approvals is all Ottawa’s fault for creating uncertainty about new natural-gas fired plants to provide back-up wind and solar electricity generation, Premier Danielle Smith insists.
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‘Specialized Prosecution Unit’ will work only in Calgary and Edmonton, Deputy Premier Mike Ellis tells talk-show caller
Restricting operations of the UCP Government’s “special prosecution unit” to Calgary and Edmonton is more evidence its purpose is entirely political.