UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean says frontrunner Danielle Smith should spill the details of her proposed ‘Sovereignty Act.’ She should. Here’s why she won’t.
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The Alberta Advantage is back! Highest average wages in the country! (Never mind what we said last year …)
Who knew that higher salaries were part of the Alberta Advantage? Jason Kenney, the man touting them on Monday, has spent much of his political career figuring out ways to lower them.
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Jason Kenney’s not wrong about Danielle Smith’s ‘Sovereignty Act’ plan – it’s nuts!
Jason Kenney must be kicking himself for not sticking to his vow before his leadership review that 51 per cent would be enough for him to remain as premier.
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Essaygate: Why has no one demanded the resignation of Culture and Status of Women Minister Ron Orr?
Surely Alberta’s Essaygate Scandal, wherein a prize was awarded in a contest for young women to an essay that included racist and sexist themes, requires the resignation minister Ron Orr.
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No news is probably bad news: Deadline passes, no one steps forward to lead Alberta Liberal Party
Political parties can come back from the brink. But not if no one is willing to lead them. It sure seems as if Alberta’s Liberals are done like dinner.
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Advanced education minister drops demand that 500 Athabasca University employees must move to town of Athabasca
Demetrios Nicolaides still wants the distance-education university’s top executives to live in the town of 2,800, 145 kilometres north of Edmonton. That’s unlikely to happen.
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UCP leadership candidates’ cagey answers at forum sponsored by teachers’ union include promises to delay new curriculum
Danielle Smith’s attitudes about public education are well enough known she was met by boos, groans and chuckles when tried to spin her yarns at a forum put on by the Alberta Teachers Association.
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Her vision inspires … outrage! Fury greets UCP Government prize for essay that calls women best suited as vessels for babies
The United Conservative Party seems to be so busy picking a replacement for Premier Jason Kenney that no one’s minding the store.
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Full stop to full on in eight months – why’s the UCP on fire to move 500 to 1,000 people into Athabasca almost overnight?
So what is it about the next two years that makes it so essential to the minister to immediately relocate as many as 1,000 people when you include households to a town of fewer than 3,000?
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Athabasca University president rips UCP for ‘1980s thinking’ that puts institution on ‘path to ruin’
Given the political situation in Alberta, a better strategy for Dr. Scott might have been to rag the puck and wait to see what happened in the next provincial election. Too late for that now.
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Funding threatened by advanced education minister, battle over Athabasca University’s future continues
Athabasca University wants to move most of its operations out of the rural town that serves as its home base and into cyberspace. The advanced education minister says it can’t. Now the institution is in turmoil.
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‘I did not authorize or approve this payment,’ former finance minister Travis Toews says of Deena Hinshaw’s bonus
Anyone who believes sneaky civil servants didn’t tell the finance minister about a $227,911 payout has no idea how the public service works.