Is this the beginning of an attempt to take back Take Back Alberta (TBTBA)? Sounds like it. Either way, though, it’s an interesting subplot to the fight to take back the UCP.
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Take Back Alberta leader’s Twitter rant casts some light on the war within the United Conservative Party
The UCP governing board’s president, according to the leader of the far-right TBA faction, “has become a tyrant” and must be removed.
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UCP addiction to inflicting ideological solutions on real problems means plague of drug deaths is unlikely to abate
While much of the rest of the world edges toward more promising ways to respond to addiction, Alberta is stuck in the 1970s War on Drugs with decades of failure and tragedy ahead.
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Yes, Danielle Smith can just apologize and shrug off her ethical failings – so it’s time for a new NDP strategy
More talk about the premier’s ethical failings? The response of most Albertans, including a significant number who would have preferred to see the NDP elected on May 29, is going to be a bored shrug.
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Deena Hinshaw can’t be called a hero, but she is a victim of vindictive UCP retribution for things she did right
Despite her failures as Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, the UCP campaign to scapegoat Dr. Deena Hinshaw is vindictive and inappropriate. It also shows contempt for Indigenous health leaders.
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Jason Stephan, temporarily missing MLA, suggests he had no idea in March there would be an election in May
If there’s a lesson to be learned here, it’s probably the value of public figures being honest and open up front about their whereabouts on dates important to their constituents.
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Red Deer-South MLA Jason Stephan, on ‘previously planned trip out-of-province with family,’ a no-show for swearing-in
This is not the MLA’s first travel controversy. He was booted off Treasury Board in January 2021 for holidaying in Arizona during the Kenney Government’s first mid-pandemic travel scandal.
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Smith to Legislature: Sorry/Not sorry!
NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley and Justice Critic Irfan Sabir fired off a letter to the RCMP calling for a criminal investigation of Premier Smith’s efforts on behalf of a preacher facing criminal charges.
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Former MLA’s request for investigation of premier’s dishwashing post blown off by office of Ethics Commissioner
Cameron Westhead says he has requested an explanation and a reconsideration of the office’s decision not to look into what he sees as the premier’s use of her office for private gain.
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Turns out Facebook didn’t censor or ban Alberta’s premier, but Danielle Smith’s complaint raises a legitimate policy question
Let it be said that with Facebook and Twitter operating in many countries, including Canada, like public utilities, there is some merit to the idea they should be subject to government regulation.
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The boss is going crazy! She’s practically giving her restaurant away! Plus, big tech is censoring her!
Could there be two more quintessential Alberta political stories? How does one even choose which one to cover? And from what are we being distracted?
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Rachel Notley is no Jim Prentice or Danielle Smith, so she’s not about to quit in a tantrum or a snit
Rachel Notley isn’t a big baby like Jim Prentice, Alberta’s last Progressive Conservative premier, who quit in a snit on election night 2015, or Danielle Smith after her 2012 election loss.