Most likely it will turn out that some things really are too big to dismantle – and Alberta Health Services is one of them.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Better late than never, one supposes, NDP hammers Smith Government’s scandalous RStar scheme
It’s hard to argue with the NDP’s points. But with Danielle Smith’s UCP entrenched in power for another four years at least, it’s also going to very hard to do anything about them.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Kaycee Madu is the third former Conservative justice minister subject to an Alberta Law Society investigation
But why did it take so long?
Posted inAlberta Politics
Sounds like the UCP’s terrible Alberta pension scheme is right back on the front burner
The denizens of the corporate boardrooms of Calgary and Houston must be salivating at the prospect of a captured provincial government accessing millions of Albertans’ pension funds to keep fossil fuel companies afloat.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Mission Impossible, Conservative style: Making the B.C. port strike settlement look like a disaster for Justin Trudeau
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s statement on the end of the strike was uncharacteristically polite and only a little ambiguous.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Alberta Labour Board ruling yesterday in response to 2020 wildcat strike could cost AUPE $1.6 million
Labour relations experts warn that if it is implemented, the labour board’s decision will make “wildcat” strikes more likely, not less, since it financially rewards participants in illegal strikes.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Stephen Harper – he haunts us still!
In regard to their approach to the mechanics of democracy at least, Stephen Harper and Viktor Orbán would appear to be birds of a feather, flocking together.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Premier’s meeting with PM sparks petulantly hyperbolic ‘readout,’ Postmedia hysteria
Danielle Smith’s petulant afternoon “readout” from Friday’s Calgary Stampede meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests Alberta’s premier didn’t get very far trying to bully the feds into abandoning their energy emissions targets. In other words, my assessment yesterday of what was likely to happen once the doors closed and the smiles came off at […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Canadian prime minister and Alberta premier exchange vapidities in public for 5 minutes and 10 seconds
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had a five-minute-and-10-second televised conversation of remarkable vapidity in Calgary yesterday. Notwithstanding the frenzied spinning of some local newshounds, what little news there was at the Calgary Stampede photo-op needs to be prised out from between the lines. Ms. Smith grandstanded a little about how Ottawa’s […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Compare and contrast: Convoy occupations and border blockades versus B.C. port strike
Speaking of predictions, it sure didn’t take long for Premier Danielle Smith and Jennifer Johnson, the “Independent” MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka to appear happily together on stage at a rural rodeo.
Posted inAlberta Politics
That interim report of the Public Health Emergencies Governance Review Panel? Nothing to see here, folks
As a political ally of Alberta’s premier who is also closely associated with anti-vaxx extremists, Preston Manning was a singularly inappropriate choice to author a government report on COVID-19.
Posted inCanadian Politics
News coverage of B.C. port strike unfolds according to the usual predictable, misleading formula
Shouldn’t any back-to-work deal imposed by Ottawa, as the usual suspects demand, give the workers, not the employers, what they want?