‘Anger and Angst: Jason Kenney’s Legacy and Alberta’s Right’ combines 22 essays on politics, the economy, the environment, education, housing, child care, right-wing populism, and the UCP’s relationship with media.
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The curious case of Canada’s ‘tax watchdog,’ which hasn’t barked at the scandalous RStar program
With potentially the largest daylight robbery in Canadian history unfolding in Alberta with the co-operation of the province’s UCP Government, what have we heard from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation? Crickets.
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Guest post: The Website that Time Forgot
The Alberta Labor Relations Board website is “almost as outdated as the Alberta employment laws overseen by the Labour Board itself.”
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The ‘RStar’ scam’s not a good deal, but it’s a done deal, even if it goes against a ‘core capitalist principle’
Scotiabank report forcefully criticizes UCP plan give multibillion-dollar companies royalty breaks to clean up abandoned wells they’re already obligated to clean up.
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Health care funding: Trudeau looks serene, even mischievous; premiers look like they’re just going to have to take it
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked like the smooth old political pro he has become yesterday as he laid out his health care deal for Canada’s perpetually dissatisfied and mostly Conservative premiers. Try as they might to look offended and unhappy with the 10-year, $196.1-billion cash deal the PM had just offered them (only a few […]
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Demetrios Nicolaides’ red-tape plan for post-secondaries is about dominating free speech on campus, not defending it
The Chicago Statement on Free Expression is an ingenious manifesto cooked up by the American right to use “free speech” as code for the right of the privileged and powerful to shout down everyone else.
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Firing at Athabasca U suggests there are now two classes of public board members in Alberta – those appointed by the UCP and those not
In a case like the firing of AU president Peter Scott, both “best practices” and natural justice require a vote of the full board to be held.
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Athabasca University President fired after long-running disagreement with UCP over institution’s role in Athabasca Town
Details remain murky about how the decision was reached to fire Dr. Peter Scott as president of Athabasca University.
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Former premier, CMOH – both battered by the winds of COVID controversy – find soft post-pandemic landings
Obviously, Bennett Jones is hiring the former premier and federal cabinet minister for his connections and influence, not for his political advice.
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Day drinking with Dale and Larry: The perfect metaphor for Alberta’s UCP Government
The policy may drive some of Alberta’s many marginal liquor stores out of business, a change that certainly won’t stimulate economic growth, diversification and job creation.
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NDP raised more cash in fourth quarter and all of 2022 than UCP, Elections Alberta figures show
The 2022 donations reported by Elections Alberta today strengthen the narrative that there is now really a two-party system operating in Alberta.
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Challenge accepted: Premier throws down the gauntlet with defamation accusation; CBC picks it up
It would seem that Premier Smith can bluster and threaten if she likes but that there is not much she can do to prevent the CBC from pursuing the story.