For a man who once stood astride Alberta in triumph, Jason Kenney has become utterly irrelevant, and all but invisible. Who saw that coming?
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Never mind what Danielle Smith promises, here are the Top Ten Things that WON’T happen in Alberta politics in 2023
I will be delighted to be proved wrong about this, but don’t bet the farm, or even the modest Edmonton condo, on an election being called for May 29, 2023.
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Political risk? Unhappy school boards? UCP unexpectedly turns against P3s to build new schools
Alberta Infrastructure Minister Nathan Neudorf has announced the United Conservative Party Government will no longer be using P3s build new schools.
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Premier Smith to nurses and doctors: Forget about measures to mitigate respiratory disease spread, the UCP is for ‘choice’
Premier Danielle Smith has made it clear that chief medical officers of health who do their jobs and express opinions other than those of the government will not be in their positions for long.
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Danielle Smith runs the idea of an Alberta pension plan referendum in May up the flagpole – then yanks it halfway down again
If the whole idea is not achievable and politically dangerous, what the heck is Ms. Smith doing raising it now?
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Tracy Allard, pushed from cabinet in 2021 for a Hawaiian pandemic holiday, welcomed back as ‘parliamentary secretary for civil liberties’
Perhaps the new Civil Liberties Czar can look into the UCP plan to incarcerate people living with addictions and force them to receive injections of opium addiction medications.
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In only 64 days, Danielle Smith blew the relationship Jason Kenney strove to build with Alberta First Nations to smithereens
Say what you will about Jason Kenney and his ideas, he made progress on persuading First Nations communities to buy into his vision of Alberta’s future.
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Alberta: Doing everything in its power to protect ‘law abiding’ gun owners from having to obey the law!
Alberta’s UCP Government is going to make Alberta safer by taking over enforcement of a federal gun safety law and not enforcing it. Or something.
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‘Premier Smith does not understand our Treaty or our inherent rights nor does she respect them’ – Treaty 6 chiefs
Treaty 6 chiefs urged the Smith Government “to withdraw and reconsider any legislation that pretends jurisdiction over Treaty Lands and Peoples.”
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Advanced education minister’s video features porkies about premiers, prime ministers and petroleum
Why did Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides choose or approve a nano-clip of prime minister Pierre Trudeau saying “just watch me” to illustrate a cringeworthy social media video justifying Premier Danielle Smith’s unconstitutional Sovereignty Act?
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This is the last straw! Danielle Smith lays down a red line Ottawa must not cross: mushy paper straws!
On Saturday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith laid down a red line that Ottawa must not cross. You’d better be paying attention, Justin Trudeau! I give you … paper straws! Ms. Smith was bloviating in her characteristic gab salad for the benefit of her audience on Your Province, Your Premier, the forty-some minutes of what amounts […]
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Limiting debate, UCP rams through ‘Sovereignty Act in the wee hours of yesterday morning
NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley immediately called on the government to refer the Sovereignty Act, widely seen as unconstitutional, to the Alberta Court of Appeal.