Jason Kenney also once said he’d donate his pension to charity if he was still being paid a public salary when his superannuation kicked in. But he’ll start collecting his pension the day after he stops being paid as an MLA.
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Support for Freedom Convoy in Alberta was an inch wide and an inch deep, research for inquiry suggests
Research by U of A Professor Jared Wesley for the Public Order Emergency Commission shows just how tepid support for the Convoy protesters and their goals was here in Alberta.
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Does being premier of Alberta mean never having to say you’re sorry? Let Danielle Smith explain …
Criticism of Premier Danielle Smith for calling vaccine refuseniks “the most discriminated-against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime” was hot enough to reheat the Lake of Fire!
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Danielle Smith’s first news conference as premier: Sovereignty, health care changes, succour for the Great Unvaxxed!
The new UCP leader’s notorious Sovereignty Act will respect the rule of law and all Supreme Court decisions. Plus, it’ll still give Alberta new tools to fiercely defend its jurisdiction. So which is it?
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Danielle Smith v. Rachel Notley: One remarkable political comeback sets the stage for another
In 2010, I predicted that Danielle Smith was one of two talented young women politicians who had an opportunity “to remake Alberta’s political history.” The other was Rachel Notley.
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Voters in Calgary-Elbow have every right to be furious with their treatment by the United Conservative Party
It took premier designate Danielle Smith less than 24 hours to change her story about why there will be no by-election in a Calgary riding that has already been without an MLA for two months.
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There will be only one by-election in Alberta before 2023, and it won’t be where it’s needed: Danielle Smith
Alberta’s premier designate says it will cost too much to hold a by-election in a Calgary riding with no MLA – she’ll save money by holding one in a rural riding instead where she’s sure to win.
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Danielle Smith is chosen, too narrowly for comfort, to lead a divided United Conservative Party
The former Wildrose Party leader captured 53.77 of the votes on the final ballot of the party election to Travis Toews’s 46.23 per cent. From the victor’s perspective, this was too close for comfort.
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The Big Gamble: Danielle Smith vows to roll the dice on a radical right-wing reordering of Alberta
Barring a miracle, Danielle Smith is about to deliver the Big Gamble that Preston Manning, the erstwhile Svengali and Godfather of the Canadian right, always wanted. That is to say, the woman who is about to be named Alberta’s unelected premier by less than 3.5 per cent of the province’s eligible voters will roll the […]
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Jason Kenney took months to become as unpopular as he is; Danielle Smith is poised to get there overnight!
It took Premier Jason Kenney a couple of years and plenty of fallout from a deadly pandemic and a series of policy flops to become the most unpopular provincial politician in Alberta. It looks like Danielle Smith may achieve that status the instant she’s declared to be the province’s unelected premier by the United Conservative […]
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Danielle Smith has neither the temperament nor the right ideology to lead a united conservative party for long
By now the UCP establishment must be thinking the only way to save the party may be by splitting with the lunatics before it’s too late!
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Conservative political activist Craig Chandler files defamation lawsuit against political scientist Duane Bratt, who vows vigorous defence
Professor Bratt is probably Alberta’s highest-profile and most quoted political scientist. He made it clear in his Statement of Defence he intends to defend himself vigorously against the lawsuit.