The health-care strategy of Alberta Conservative governments in summary: “Nothing we’ve done to fix the problems in health care has worked for years! Let’s do the same thing again!”
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Don’t worry about contradictions in health minister’s mandate letter – those promises aren’t meant to be kept
Having boxed herself during her campaign to lead the United Conservative Party, Premier Danielle Smith had no choice but to promise to decentralize Alberta Health Services to appease her party’s rural base.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s pitch to Calgary’s mayor about trains to the airport, trains to Banff, sounds lighter than hot air
Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner complains that the premier’s LRT talk ignores the transportation needs of residents of her north Calgary federal riding.
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Dr. Deena Hinshaw is out – did the UCP appoint the Dr. Joffe the premier wanted to replace the chief medical officer of health?
The Strange Case of Dr. Joffe and Dr. Joffe: Did Premier Danielle Smith want the COVID contrarian Dr. Joffe when her health minister appointed the mask-mandate supporting Dr. Joffe?
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It was the spring of crypto-hope, now it’s the winter of crypto-despair … Calgary’s promised crypto-boom is off, eh?
Whatever are we to do now that the spring of crypto has given way to winter in Wild Rose Country? Premier Smith?
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Cometh the hour, cometh the mandate letter: Premier Smith turns to the important task of looking busy
It is not yet clear if Jason Kenney will adopt a diet of honey and wild locusts, as befits a prophet wandering in the wilderness, to go with his grizzled and Lula-like whiskers.
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Hot take: Premier Danielle Smith finally wins a seat in Brooks-Medicine Hat – with an unimpressive 54.5% of the vote
The NDP’s Gwendoline Dirk won the vote outright for the NDP within the boundaries of the City of Medicine Hat. Is that a harbinger of things to come when Calgary residents get a chance to vote?
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New cracks appear in UCP façade as party officials disallow anti-vaxx nomination candidate in premier’s home riding
There’s not a lot of light between Nadine Wellwood’s beliefs, so bonkers they got her disqualified as a UCP candidate, and those of Danielle Smith, so mainstream they got her elected premier.
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St. Albert’s city administration contravened Libraries Act by modifying library funding request before presenting city budget to council
There is no reasonable excuse for the city administration, which includes its own legal staff to advise it on such matters, to have missed the requirements of Section 8 of the Libraries Act.
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Danielle Smith, it would seem, wants to Alberta hear from prominent anti-vaxxers – and maybe take their advice
Premier Danielle Smith appears to be reaching into some pretty strange corners to find anti-vaccine voices to support her crackpot views about public health in general and COVID-19 in particular.
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As by-election test nears for UCP Premier Danielle Smith, new poll shows NDP in majority territory
Danielle Smith may win next Tuesday’s by-election in a safe rural riding, but anything short of total electoral shock and awe is going to contribute to the narrative of an inevitable NDP victory in 2023.
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National convoy inquiry not going as hoped? Preston Manning plans partisan pandemic panel
Preston Manning, who is 80 and not really a player any more, celebrated the 35th anniversary of his ascension to the leadership of the Reform Party of Canada 35 years ago on Monday.