Just remember, as Senator Patrick Brazeau can tell you, if Justin Trudeau decides to get off the ropes, he’s got a pretty good right, and a pretty good left too.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Danielle Smith accuses CBC of defaming her, her staff, Crown prosecutors, and the whole public service
It’s highly likely the premier and her staff were bluffing when they came up with the idea of yesterday’s press release, which represents a new level of silliness for the Alberta government.
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No matter what the Law Society decides about his conduct, Tyler Shandro’s reputation is bound to suffer
Alberta justice minister should really think seriously about not running for re-election in his Calgary-Acadia riding whenever Premier Danielle Smith gets around to calling a general election.
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Mike Cardinal, influential minister in Ralph Klein’s cabinet, dies at 81
Melvin Percy Joseph Cardinal, known by all as Mike, was the first Status Indian to hold a cabinet post in Alberta.
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Public service swiftly checks Premier’s Office emails, unsurprisingly finds nothing
It’s a dirty little secret of Canadian government that plenty of public business is nowadays conducted outside legitimate channels to avoid public accountability.
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Postmedia closes 12 community newspapers in Alberta, vows ‘digital’ revenants will linger
It’s now 2023 and the foundering Postmedia newspaper chain is still in business – it’s principal business, presumably, being giving big bonuses to executives, because it sure isn’t running newspapers.
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Posted in obvious haste to distract UCP foes and appease party’s base, Manning panel survey asks only 1 question!
Everything about this announcement and survey suggests the whole thing was cobbled together in about 10 minutes over coffee – or perhaps something stronger. How is this a legitimate way to develop public policy?
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It’s hard to believe Danielle Smith didn’t know her staff was emailing prosecutors about Coutts border blockade charges
Plus, will Preston Manning drop his plans for a national partisan pandemic panel now that he’s been offered a chance to run a paid provincial partisan pandemic panel?
Posted inCanadian Politics
There’s a sedition super-highway – Canada needs to take the off-ramp
In the United States and Brazil, the institutions of government are taking steps to show that this type of conduct has no place in a civilized society. In Canada, not so much.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Apocalypse Now? Or apocalypse later? Are we looking at the last days of the UCP, or just another self-inflicted speed bump?
Nothing definitive, but there’s a whiff of smoke in the air, as if a cow has kicked over a lantern in a stable somewhere, and flames are just starting to spread.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Dumping RCMP for provincial force could cost St. Albert residents an average $2,784 a year in property tax, says city’s NDP MLA
St. Albert MLA Marie Renaud cited a report from Surrey, B.C., which concluded property taxes would have to rise 55 per cent if the city went ahead with a plan to set up a local police service.
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Texas businessman, world traveller, decides not to seek re-election in rural Alberta riding
A United Conservative Party backbencher caught up in the Alohagate pandemic travel scandal in the first hours of 2021 and seldom seen in his own riding has acknowledged reality and announced his political career is done like dinner. Or, as Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn put it in a rambling letter to constituents yesterday, […]