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.
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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.
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Junket to Germany: Rural MLAs from Alberta fly to Berlin and Essen to ‘learn about energy and climate transition’
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!