A video clip of Alberta’s premier outlining how her province could privatize major public hospitals appeared on social media last week.
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Unhinged: Danielle Smith says vaccinated Albertans are just like the German voters who elected Hitler
The latest recording of Danielle Smith expounding on her bizarre beliefs – this time her opinion that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is like voting for Hitler – sparks near-universal outrage.
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Wildfire state of emergency introduces new calculus to Alberta election campaign
Close to 25,000 Albertans in about 20 communities had been forced out of their homes by more than 100 wildfires by yesterday afternoon.
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Two cheers for King Charles!
Canada needs to keep King Charles. Here’s why.
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UCP’s ‘Alberta is Calling signing bonus’ is mostly fluff, little substance, and likely to stir resentment
In what is surely an unprecedented development, Navius Research Inc. published a statement to “set the record straight” on what a report it was commissioned to write for the UCP really said.
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Radical street preacher Artur Pawlowski found guilty of 2 charges; still gets to challenge Jason Kenney’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act
Possible unpopular opinion: Far-right street preacher Artur Pawlowski will have done us all a favour if he manages to get all or part of Jason Kenney’s odious Critical Infrastructure Defence Act tossed out by a court on constitutional grounds. OK, no one’s going to name a school or a bridge after the guy. But still, […]
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As campaign begins, Art Pawlowski and Rob Anders talk political alliance; Paul Hinman gets new party; Drew Barnes exits, stage right
Several fringy political characters made announcements yesterday. Today, presumably, we’ll all get back to talking about the only two parties that actually matter in this election – the UCP and the NDP.
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Happy May Day! Alberta poised for election call today
Today is May 1, the International Day of the Worker and presumably only by coincidence the day on which Alberta Premier Danielle Smith plans to ask for a general election
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Criticized for the company she keeps, premier insists she doesn’t know who her friends are
Some media figures claim Premier Smith’s personal beliefs are sufficiently inclusive to pass a test for “wokeness.” Sorry, but I don’t buy it.
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$#!+ Danielle Smith says, and does: Alberta Premier touts far-right ‘bastions of freedom’ in U.S.; poses with convoy insurrectionists
Alberta’s premier rhapsodizes about anti-book, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-vaccine, pro-gun jurisdictions south of the 49th Parallel, and hangs around with criminally charged convoyers. Again.
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In another unsurprising Danielle Smith flip-flop, Calgary to get $330 million in provincial cash for new Flames arena
This is the age of neoliberalism and no Canadian government is very likely to deny its local billionaires the money they want for a money machine like an NHL arena.
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How to blow up a pipeline hearing: AER boss just won’t say when regulator told Alberta government about toxic leak
We can’t be confident Alberta officials are working very hard to prevent leaks and spills of toxic materials, but at least we know that when the going gets tough, the tough review movies.