The fact Jason Kenney’s communications advisor had his COVID isolation costs covered should have been used to argue that we would all be safer if every infected person was entitled to the same support.
Posted inAlberta Politics
4,000 UCP memberships bought with six credit cards? Dodgy practice, legal or not, likely to come back to bite Jason Kenney
Elections Alberta is reported to be investigating allegations there have been legally sketchy bulk purchases of UCP memberships.
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Jason Kenney attempts to show he’s still relevant with risible legal intervention in Emergencies Act challenges
What’s that annoying buzz? It’s too early in the reluctant Alberta springtime for it to be a fly trapped between the blind and the window. And we’re too far away from Havana for it to be a mysterious Russian microwave weapon frying the brains of American consular officials. Don’t worry, it’s just Alberta Premier Jason […]
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Will students learn ‘financial literacy’ or corporate propaganda from Alberta’s $5M curriculum ‘investment’?
There’s nothing wrong with a little financial education, but is that what Alberta students will be getting from the grade school “financial literacy” program Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange announced so enthusiastically yesterday?
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Elections Alberta contributions report shows NDP leading first-quarter fund-raising with more than $1M raised
The UCP says it actually raised more! The party claimed its constituency associations raised enough additional funds not reported to Elections Alberta to put it ahead in Q1 contributions.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Canadian Conservatives, heavily influenced by Republican ideology, are keen to squelch debate about U.S. Supreme Court’s planned abortion ruling
With the leak of the shocking/not shocking plan by the Republican-packed majority on the now thoroughly politicized U.S. Supreme Court to allow American states to ban abortions outright and speed the republic toward theocracy, Canadian conservatives who drink from the same ideological well would very much like to shut down any discussion of that topic here.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Open Letter from 58 researchers and docs assails safe drug supply study prepared for Alberta Legislature committee
The open letter to the Alberta Government’s Select Special Committee to Examine Safe Supply, which was released yesterday, highlighted eight major shortcomings in the report produced by researchers affiliated with the B.C.-based Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction.
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UCP’s instinct for making things worse turns Alberta’s ongoing hospital capacity crisis into a catastrophe
What has Alberta’s United Conservative Party done about Alberta’s growing hospital capacity crisis? Why, they’ve fired the competent, universally respected CEO of Alberta Health Services.
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Whitemud Walking, by Edmonton author Matthew James Weigel, tops Alberta Independent Bookshops’ non-fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 24, 2022.
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Sweet Home Alberda? Jason Kenney, the Rodney Dangerfield of Canada, holds forth on pipelines, petroleum, and Pawliver
Brace yourselves, Albertans. Premier Jason Kenney says his government is “willing in principle to participate in de-risking a major pipeline.” That means forking over more cash, obviously.
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It’s a big deal when a judge rules that if cabinet secrecy isn’t in the public interest it can be tossed aside
A Calgary judge has ruled the public interest in answers about what the Alberta cabinet was advised about COVID-19 restrictions “outweighs the public interest in keeping the evidence confidential.”
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Now for something a little different: Podcasting about Alberta politics
It was nice of the lads at the True North Eager Beaver Podcast to sit down and let me bloviate about one of my favourite topics, Alberta’s unexpected political crisis and what it means for the province’s increasingly frenetic premier, for more than an hour recently. When Douglas Connors asked me to join him and […]