Apparently an election in 90 days concentrates a premier’s mind wonderfully!
Posted inAlberta Politics
Guest Post: Researcher Regan Boychuk digs deep into the history of the RStar scheme
“This May will provide a spectacular opportunity for Albertans to demand more than a pittance in royalties and more than mere lip service to the principle of polluter-pay.” – Regan Boychuk
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Like the proverbial bad penny, Raj Sherman keeps turning up – this time as UCP candidate in Edmonton-Whitemud
For the Edmonton-Whitemud nomination vote, the former Alberta Liberal leader made sure he obeyed all the party’s rules and won the nomination fair and square. There’s not much the UCP can do about him except pray discreetly for an NDP victory in the riding.
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AG on AB continuing care COVID response: lack of preparation, not enough staff, outdated infrastructure
“It’s frightening to contemplate what would have happened if Alberta had followed Danielle Smith’s advice to copy the disastrous responses in South Dakota or Florida and simply let the virus rip …”
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COVID-19 haunts us still, but if your vaccinations and boosters are fully up to date, AHS won’t let you have another one
If you’ve had your two-shot vaccination against COVID, followed by two boosters and a bivalent booster, each about five or six months apart, Alberta Health Services will not allow you to have another booster. It’s the same elsewhere in Canada.
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Our annual Family Day toast to Don Getty, whose best-known achievement was one for the ages
If our former Alberta NDP government had wanted a project that would have ensured the eternal gratitude of most Albertans, come what may, it should have returned the August holiday to statutory status. They should promise that now.
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Rajan Sawhney, one of the seven contenders to lead the UCP last year, won’t seek re-election this spring
Rajan Sawhney was one of the UCP leadership candidates who strongly criticized then-candidate Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act promise, calling it “an unconstitutional distraction.”
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HEADLESS GOVERNMENT IN TOPLESS TOWN!
Topless swimming in Edmonton city pools is an issue that will get Alberta’s social conservatives to go right off the deep end. We’ll be hearing about it every day at least until May 29.
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Lion’s share of UCP health spending announced yesterday is earmarked for finding docs for rural areas
Docs for Alberta’s cities? It would appear that’s not as much of a UCP priority, or perhaps not a priority at all.
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Did the UCP just purport to change a law using only a cabinet order?
How can Cabinet now change the Employment Standards Code without taking it to the Legislature?
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NDP vows more access to family docs in what looks like the Opposition’s opening shot of 2023 election campaign
The NDP proposal gives the impression the Opposition has given serious thought to finding solutions to the health care crisis and has a clear plan over the next several years to make it happen.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Ottawa’s Conservatives: always disdainful of separatists, except when they aren’t
The vote Monday in the House of Commons demonstrates that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are always willing to undercut Canada and the Charter to own the Libs.