Let’s cut right to the chase: What the analysis made public yesterday by the Chief Actuary of Canada shows is that if Alberta were to split from the Canada Pension Plan it would only be entitled to 20 to 25 per cent of the CPP investment fund, or about $120 billion to $150 billion. In […]
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Danielle Smith congratulates the loser of the Lethbridge-West by-election; family docs’ pay deal is finally done
Had the United Conservative Party’s John Middleton-Hope won Wednesday’s by-election in Lethbridge-West, one wonders if Health Minister Adriana LaGrange would have invited him along yesterday to help her make her long-overdue announcement of the government’s funding agreement with Alberta doctors? Alas for the UCP, Mr. Middleton-Hope was not the winner of the by-election. The Alberta […]
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Lethbridge-West by-election voters send NDP’s Rob Miyashiro to the Alberta Legislature
In a refreshing sign of intelligent life on the Great Plains of Alberta, voters in the Lethbridge-West by-election sent New Democrat Rob Miyashiro to the provincial Legislature in Edmonton yesterday. Judging from the unofficial numbers on the Elections Alberta website, the vote appeared to be a squeaker until about 11 p.m. when results of the […]
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If Justin Trudeau takes a ‘walk in the snow,’ how will Alberta’s UCP ever fit up a replacement as nicely?
The Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa surely isn’t the only Canadian venue with more than a whiff of panic in the air these days. Consider the likely conversation in Premier Danielle Smith’s office in the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. According to Environment Canada, periods of snow are forecast in Ottawa today with more flurries tonight. […]
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Edmonton police commission member plans to work from Portugal; strangely, UCP minister has no problem with that
If only Andy Thompson had lived to see this day! Andrew Ernest Joseph Thompson, who ascended to the Great Legislature in the Sky in 2016, was the low-profile Canadian Senator who spent too much of his time in the lovely Mexican city of Guadalajara. And who can blame him, the winter climate in Jalisco state […]
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Soon-to-retire Edmonton police chief and tireless copagandist to become Alberta’s chief bureaucop: premier
Dale McFee, chief of the Edmonton Police Service, will soon take over as Alberta’s chief bureaucop – pardon me, bureaucrat – Premier Danielle Smith announced yesterday, surprising absolutely no one. Chief McFee will retire as Edmonton’s chief constable on Feb. 21. He will take over as the Deputy Minister of Executive Council three days later. […]
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Rachel Notley, Alberta’s first NDP premier, announces her intention to quit as Edmonton-Strathcona MLA
Rachel Notley, Alberta’s first NDP premier and the woman who in 2015 broke the Progressive Conservative party’s seemingly unshakable grip on power in this province, has announced her full departure from politics. In a social media post this morning, Ms. Notley stated her intention to write the Speaker of the Alberta Legislature and resign her […]
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A week before crucial Lethbridge by-election, it’s still not clear what NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi stands for
Since Naheed Nenshi replaced Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP last June, the Opposition party appears to have gone from all tactics and no strategy to all strategy and no tactics. The crucial by-election to replace former NDP cabinet minister Shannon Phillips in Lethbridge-West is one week away yet very little has been […]
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UCP travel update: Dubai TFW construction crew recruiting trip is off … for now
Busted by the Alberta local of the electrical workers’ union and a couple of federal NDP Members of Parliament, the United Conservative Party Government has put its plan to recruit new temporary workers by poaching temporary workers from Dubai on ice. On Friday, under a picture of Premier Danielle Smith walking with a guy in […]
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UCP MLAs and ministers seem to be jetting all over the place these days – and taxpayers are picking up the tab
It doesn’t seem like that long ago United Conservative Party cabinet ministers, MLAs and political aides were getting in to all kinds of hot water for their holiday travel. Who can forget Tracy Allard, booted from her job as municipal affairs minister for her mid-pandemic Hawaiian holiday? Or the controversies in 2021 stirred up by […]
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Guest Post: Alberta’s UCP wants to pave paradise and put up an all-season resort
Now that the fall session of the Alberta Legislature is over and the United Conservative Party is celebrating its success pushing through major parts of its radical agenda, a number of new laws continue to arouse controversy. As a result, Bill 35, the All Season Resorts Act, hasn’t really received the careful attention it deserves. […]
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During eventful fall session of the Alberta Legislature, UCP attacks the rights of citizens on several fronts
During this fall’s eventful session of the Alberta Legislature, the United Conservative Party Government attacked the rights of some vulnerable Albertans to medical treatment, undermined the right of all citizens to public information, made it easier to keep citizens from exercising their right to use public land, and even tried to make it illegal for […]