We are a point now that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called into doubt just about everything else she has ever said about anything.
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Stuff Danielle Smith says: Alberta premier in hot water again, this time for suggesting she interfered with administration of justice
Whatever happened, Premier Danielle Smith has gotten herself in trouble again, and further clarifications are going to be required.
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Impasse: Ottawa unlikely to fork over billions to make health care better if Conservative premiers insist on using the cash to make it worse
The 2001 Firewall formula makes it sound easy, but the UCP dream of ‘reforming’ health care would be pretty hard without federal co-operation.
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Danielle Smith to Alberta at first newser of 2023: ‘We haven’t made a decision to invoke the Sovereignty Act on anything’
If Alberta’s Sovereignty Act ever gets used, it’ll be so close to the next general election that it won’t have a chance to flop until after the ballots are counted.
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Think tanks to Canadians: Do what we say or be prepared to freeze in the dark!
Without decisive changes in public and government attitudes, “Canada faces a decline in living standards and a crippling dependence on foreign fuels within the next 10 years.” Yup, according to an independent study group set up by the Calgary-based Canada West Foundation, “without additional commitments to the development of new resources to replace those we […]
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From the folks who brought you sovereignty within a united Canada, ‘just transition’ is a divisive, polarizing term!
I’ve got news for federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson: This is Alberta, and we’re the Canadian equivalent of “Mikey.” We hate everything. So we’re going to hate sustainable jobs, too.
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Juxtapose: Burgeoning CEO pay and the sprawling woke conspiracy the National Post thinks we should worry about
Talk about crypto-marxism! Next thing you know the CCPA is going to be coming after Kitty just because she enjoys dining on a songbird now and again!
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Alberta NDP’s $7.1-million fund-raising total in 2022 speaks to deep dissatisfaction among many voters with Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP
Alberta’s Opposition party says it raised $3.2 million in the fourth quarter, $265,000 in a single day – New Year’s Eve.
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Social-conservative activist John Carpay reported by legal advocacy group he heads to have been charged with obstruction of justice
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms said it believes the charges stem from a 2021 incident in which the Calgary lawyer hired a private detective to snoop on a top Manitoba judge.
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Resignations leave residents of two corners of southwest Calgary with neither an MP nor an MLA
Happy New Year, and say goodbye to Calgary Heritage Member of Parliament Bob Benzen, who has resigned his seat effective midnight last night.
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Some thoughts on New Year’s parties, especially conservative ones, which are always welcome in Alberta politics
As former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason has accurately said on many occasions, you just can’t have too many right-wing political parties in Alberta.
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The Alberta political story of 2022 was the decline, fall, irrelevance and virtual disappearance of Jason Kenney
For a man who once stood astride Alberta in triumph, Jason Kenney has become utterly irrelevant, and all but invisible. Who saw that coming?