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” […]
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Give Jason Kenney, crowing about how good management made Alberta’s budget surplus possible, credit for chutzpah!
Give Jason Kenney credit for sheer brass! Yesterday, Alberta’s premier, so recently told by his own party to pack up his stuff and take a hike, was taking credit for the province’s unexpected recent resource jackpot. Finance Minister Jason Nixon having announced earlier in the day that Alberta will post a $3.9-billion surplus for the […]
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A thought on how Sundre can start to put the embarrassment of the racist jackassery in its rodeo parade behind it
The rodeo, town officials, and the people who rode on the embarrassing float should all take the Dashmesh Culture Centre up on its offer. There’s contact information on the centre’s website.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Protecting free speech on campus? Forget about it, Pierre Poilievre is just dog-whistling
The political value of such right-wing dog-whistles tends to outweigh the practical application of supposed “free speech” rules, such as they may be.
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As predicted, Canadian Conservatives want you to shut up about U.S. Supreme Court’s repugnant Roe v. Wade ruling
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling stripping half the United States’ 330 million people of their constitutional right to abortion, Canadian conservatives were busy trying to deny the intention of many in their political movement to do the exactly same thing here, as soon as possible. Were the situation south of the […]
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Told to take a hike by UCP, former Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman says he’ll run to lead Conservatives anyway
Since his days as a junior member of Ed Stelmach’s Progressive Conservative cabinet, the Edmonton Emergency Room physician has left a trail of political devastation in his wake.
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Portraying Alberta and federal Conservative parties as hot messes, Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner says she won’t join UCP leadership race
Rempel Garner portrays the UCP as rife with “heated exchanges to get basic concerns addressed, unjustified insularity in decision making, shunnings, exclusionary cliques and more.”
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Parliament’s budget watchdog concludes TMX is almost certainly a loser – no matter what Ottawa does
Yesterday’s Parliamentary Budget Office report requires reading between the lines to try to figure out which course of action – pumping or dumping – makes more sense in the long run.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Jason Kenney’s cabinet shuffle, clearly necessary, nevertheless gets delivered in a slippery way
As is typical of the man, Jason Kenney’s cabinet shuffle yesterday, while clearly necessary, was delivered in a slippery manner. Leastways, the usual cheerful statement alerting the media that a big upcoming announcement was in the offing appeared in no one’s email inbox before the minimalist news release announcing the shuffle to “fill vacancies left […]
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Verna Yiu, fired in April as Alberta Health Services CEO, named University of Alberta provost and academic vice-president
When governments fire high-profile officials, they like them to stay fired. This is particularly true of governments like the UCP under Jason Kenney that have an obvious vindictive streak.
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What’s with Danielle Smith’s nutty, sophomoric campaign to lead Alberta’s UCP? Maybe she’s just bored!
Whatever she’s up to now, it’s scary to wonder if Danielle Smith was nursing the same plans back in 2012 when she seemed to be on the verge of winning the top political job in Confederation’s richest province.
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Thomas Dang, cleared of criminal offence in whistleblowing case, applies for readmission to NDP Caucus
Meanwhile, the RCMP fraud investigation into the 2017 “Kamikaze campaign” to bring down UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean and elect Jason Kenney as leader of the then-new party is said to be continuing.