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.
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Why does the UCP want to create a ‘special prosecution unit’ for Alberta cities when the evidence suggests it’s not needed?
Crimes in rural areas are both more numerous and more severe than in urban areas, especially on the Prairies, StatsCan reports. Wouldn’t a “specialized prosecution service” for rural crime make more sense?
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Once more unto the breach, public sector lab workers save medical test system from collapse in Calgary after privatization fiasco
What do you want to bet fixing this privatization mess this is going to cost a lot more than the $18-million the Dynalife takeover was supposed to save?
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Forget that stuff about decentralizing health care, AHS directed to consolidate all mental health and addictions programs in one silo
Health care decision making in Alberta is always going to be made at the provincial level, except when it’s always going to be made at the local level. Plus, no more renewable energy projects for a while!
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RCMP to stay? CPP to go? Who knows? The Dance of the Thousand Mandate Letters continues
Figuring out what the UCP is up to by reading ministers’ mandate letters is rather like Kremlinology, back in the bad old days when the Soviet Union was “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
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Cabinet was ignoring the law when it ordered Dr. Hinshaw around during the pandemic! Who knew?
The answer? Everybody knew. But now a judge’s ruling has made it official.