Despite the flaws in her argument, Rajan Sawhney is the first and only UCP leadership candidate to speak out against the appointment of the Calgary lawyer and contributor to a controversial right-wing magazine.
Posted inAlberta Politics
UCP appoints lawyer who wrote favourable review of book denigrating Islam to lead Human Rights Commission
Now that it has had almost nothing to say on this topic, we can assume the UCP Government will have nothing more to say.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Danielle Smith takes UCP leadership campaign down a dark, Trumpian road with her conspiracy theory about AHS
The danger now is that other candidates in the UCP leadership race, seeing the traction Danielle Smith has gained through these tactics, will join in with inflammatory conspiracy theories of their own.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Danielle Smith, campaigning to lead the United Conservative Party, sounds crazy – but is she crazy like a Trump?
Maybe Danielle Smith was just talking to see what she was going to say. She’s been known to do that, blithely confident she’s the smartest person in the room and can babble her way out of any gaffe.
Posted inAlberta Politics
One Party, Two Guv’nors! Dispute over who leads Alberta’s Wildrose Independence Party continues
Former MLA Paul Hinman says he’s still the leader of the Wildrose Independence Party; the party’s board says it’s appointed Calgary engineer Jeevan Singh Mangat as interim leader of the separatist party.
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Newly named chief of Alberta Human Rights Commission, set to start work Thursday, must step aside immediately
In 2009, Collin May authored an article that can fairly be described as Islamophobic in a right-wing Calgary publication called C2C Journal.
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With Alberta enjoying an unexpected oil boom, Rachel Notley vows an NDP government won’t piss it all away
With Alberta enjoying another rather unexpected oil boom, Rachel Notley has promised that an NDP government won’t piss it all away. That’s exactly what she said. “I spend a lot of hours on Alberta highways and I often see that bumper sticker — you know the one — that says ‘Please God, give me one […]
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Another day on the campaign trail: Travis Toews woos building trades unions and jumps on the anti-vaxx bandwagon
The UCP has been so relentless and self-righteous in its attacks on unions under Jason Kenney’s leadership that Travis Toews’s Toews’s social call on a union group has to be a surprise.
Posted inAlberta Politics
In Alberta, it would appear that Conservative politicians really can run and hide at the same time!
The UCP is an increasingly radicalized party in the Republican mould, and the rest of us are just going to have to live with whomever they choose – for a while, anyway.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Independence Day, freedom, the dog days of summer, and Pierre Poilievre’s profundities … plus the care and treatment of wood
If we Canadians are planning to build something worthwhile out of our recycled wood, we’d be advised to check it for rotten spots.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Canada Day 2022 – doesn’t look like this national holiday will herald the best summer ever, either
Last year on this day traditionally reserved for national celebration, the headline of the post that occupied this space read: “While Jason Kenney promises the best summer ever, it’s hard to shake the feeling of apocalyptic foreboding this Canada Day.” Once again, no one is now promising the “best summer ever.” Indeed, the sense of […]
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Bizarre UCP plan would see Alberta patients and their Alberta docs shipped to B.C. for surgeries, then shipped back
What the hell was the Kenney Government up to last fall when it had the brainstorm to compel Alberta Health Services to ship patients and their surgeons to an apparently under-used surgical facility in British Columbia’s Okanagan? The saga involving what NDP Opposition leader and former premier Rachel Notley called the “slightly less-than-reputable surgical facility” […]