Alberta’s response to last fall’s shortage of children’s fever medication will cost taxpayers $80 million for 1.25 million bottles of a non-standard product from Turkey that can’t be bought off the shelf.
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MLA Dan Williams’ beer guzzling in the Legislature is just another episode in the UCP’s sophomoric obsession with alcohol
A legislative chamber is a workplace. Well, except in Alberta, apparently.
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UCP now wants underwhelming minimum wage report, a typical Jason Kenney production, to be quickly forgotten
The report contains no surprises. The minimum wage “expert panel” was obviously handpicked to come up with a report that called for policy Jason Kenney had already decided to implement.
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Take Back Alberta, far right radical group, continues its effort to take over UCP
If it ever was, the UCP is not your grandfather’s Conservative party any more!
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Growing consensus that Alberta NDP’s communications strategy is failing prompts calls for tougher approach
“If the NDP doesn’t up its comms game immediately, they will lose the election in May,” says a frustrated former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason. “There’s too much at stake to keep fumbling around.”
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Rachel Notley vows reinvestment in health and education, hammers UCP record, after accepting riding nomination
“New Democrat values are Alberta values,” Rachel Notley asserted at her nomination to run again in Edmonton-Strathcona. More than 1,000 people attended the meeting in Edmonton yesterday.
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Federal environment minister spoke softly about that unreported toxic sludge leak, but Ottawa carries a big stick
In the event of conflict between valid federal and provincial laws, the federal law is paramount. So Alberta can’t wish away federal regulations. Ottawa’s environment minister seems to have noticed.
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With province awash in cash, premier makes no commitment to Edmonton’s mayor about help with city’s social woes
Where the heck was the only minister from Edmonton when this important meeting with Edmonton’s mayor took place?
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Alberta in 2023: COVID, Conservatives, and the plan to make the energy rollercoaster even scarier
No natural disaster is required to justify bad economic policies. We’re quite capable of generating our own disasters right here in quasi-sovereign Alberta!
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National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommends spring COVID boosters for groups at risk of severe illness
The NACI guidance presents a conundrum for Premier Danielle Smith’s government, with the UCP organization if not its Legislative Caucus now dominated by anti-vaccination militants.
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Ron Liepert, colourful former Alberta cabinet minister who unseated ‘Canada’s Worst MP,’ is set to retire
When Calgary MP Ron Liepert announced on Feb. 17 he’s is about to retire, no one seems to have thought to thank him for his greatest service to Canada: handing Rob Anders his hat.
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Budget 2023: Smoke, mirrors, sleight of hand, and promises that don’t have to be kept
An air of pre-election unreality may explain why the aspect of the Alberta Budget that seemed to generate the most interest yesterday was the appearance of convoy activist Tamara Lich in the Legislature’s public gallery.