Sounding a mite panicked by the negative public response to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s willingness to bend rules to help political allies in trouble with the law, the United Conservative Party has retreated to its ideological safe space: Law ’n’ Order, with a side of dog-whistles and urban crime stereotypes. There is a deep and […]
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On Monday Danielle Smith quoted government lawyers; now Alberta’s premier says the UCP is paying for her to sue the CBC
Is using libel law to suppress inconvenient media reports a suitable use for tax-deductible political donations in a democracy?
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Alberta premier hides behind lawsuit that hasn’t happened to dodge reporters’ difficult questions
Danielle Smith is refusing to comment on an essentially unrelated story based on a matter that is not now before the courts and may never be.
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Last week wasn’t a good one for Alberta’s UCP – this week holds the promise of more … snow
At this rate, the UCP is going to be praying that the heavy snow forecast throughout Southern Alberta today keeps falling until June!
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Biden offers to send election observers to Canada to oversee Alberta vote in May
Seriously, people, irony and sarcasm, let alone April Fool’s jokes, are going to have trouble surviving another year in Alberta!
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If you’re not talking to a Crown prosecutor, it doesn’t count as interference – that’s the UCP’s story, and they’re stickin’ to it!
Meanwhile, in Southern Alberta, an outrageous campaign video results in a UCP candidate having to walk the plank.
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Premier threatens CBC for reporting her own words in phone conversation with anti-vaxx pastor facing criminal charges
It may not be Lake of Fire 2.0, but you wouldn’t think Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s blustering response yesterday to the CBC’s release of a recording of her telling an anti-vaccine pastor facing criminal charges that she was talking to Justice officials “almost weekly” about his case is going to help her election campaign. Artur […]
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UCP plans to let private medical corporations provide some surgeries without qualified anesthesiologists in the Operating Room
Could AHS end up having to cancel surgeries in public hospitals to ensure the private surgical companies with which its signed deals can keep operating? It looks like that could happen.
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So what kind of UCP candidates will replace Finance Minister Travis Toews and Environment Minister Sonya Savage?
Whoever the candidates turn out to be, measures have already been taken to ensure they won’t be enemies of Premier Danielle Smith.
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Finance Minister Travis Toews and Environment Minister Sonya Savage won’t seek re-election on May 29
Both Travis Toews and Sonya Savage were capable cabinet ministers and members of what we might call the rapidly diminishing sane wing of the UCP.
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You can never believe anything until it’s been officially denied: The UCP just denied it wants to privatize health care
Don’t worry, Alberta, Health Minister Jason Copping wants you to know that here in Wild Rose Country, private is public.
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China’s spending money to undermine Canadian democracy? If they’ll just leave us alone, we’ll take care of it ourselves!
Canada faces foreign interference in Canadian democracy right now – from the U.S. Government, the American corporate sector, and the Neoliberal Internationale headed by Stephen Harper.