Sooner or later, Albertans are probably going to start to suffer from petition fatigue. But not just yet. Too many of us are having too much fun with the understanding that, sometimes, turn about really can be fair play. Last month, Elections Alberta approved a petition in the Calgary-Bow riding to recall United Conservative Party […]
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Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands
Now that Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite foreign autocrat appears to be on the brink of transforming himself from a successful “peace candidate” into a war president, it would behoove folks here in Wild Rose Country to remember why American-imposed regime change in Venezuela is bad news for Alberta. Anyone who has paid even casual attention […]
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Forever Canadian campaign delivers petition forms signed by 456,365 citizens to Elections Alberta
When Thomas Lukaszuk said he could bring Elections Alberta pro-Canada petition forms signed by 300,000 Albertans in the three months allowed by the United Conservative Party’s “citizen initiative” legislation, there were many who said it couldn’t be done. Premier Danielle Smith’s openly separatist political allies laughed at the former Progressive Conservative deputy premier and called […]
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Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers
Overreach, anyone? Since the start of the legal strike by 51,000 Alberta public, francophone and Catholic schoolteachers on October 6, elements of the province’s United Conservative Party Government have been chomping at the bit to use the Notwithstanding Clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to end the strike and school the teachers […]
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If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation
If the Alberta Prosperity Project hoped to hold the largest public protest in Alberta history yesterday, as some organizers of the “independence rally” that took place in front of the Legislative Building in Edmonton boasted on social media last week, they came up short. The turnout at the late-afternoon separatist rally was clearly smaller than […]
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Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention
Sandra Azocar, who started working for the Alberta Government as a child protection worker in 1987, has been elected president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. The 59-year-old Chilean-born union activist, AUPE’s executive vice-president since 2021, defeated longtime President Guy Smith on the second ballot in voting at AUPE’s annual convention in Edmonton this […]
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Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction
Having already solved the problem of trade and tariffs with the United States simply by being nice to the Trump Administration, Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to “end the landlocking of Alberta’s oilsands by building new oil pipelines to our nation’s west coast in order to access the largest market on earth” and “become […]
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Danielle Smith announces another step down the rocky road to U.S.-style health care
Just to give us something to think about while we await the Speech from the Throne this afternoon, Premier Danielle Smith yesterday announced Albertans will soon have the opportunity to take another step down the rocky road to U.S.-style health care. Promising “faster access to preventative care” and “patient autonomy for Albertans” – via a cheerful […]
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Civic election hot take: UCP’s big-money, small-party scheme to elect friendlier city councils mostly flops
Looks like the United Conservative Party’s scheme to encourage civic political parties and allow big corporate money to make it easier to elect ideologically simpatico mayors and councillors in Alberta’s big cities was a bust in Edmonton and not much better in Calgary. At any rate, while the ridiculous manual vote count the UCP insisted […]
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The key to understanding UCP’s legislative agenda is the UCP’s annual general meeting next month
The key to understanding the Alberta Legislature’s fall agenda is knowing that almost everything on the list trotted out yesterday by United Conservative Party House Leader Joseph Schow is there to keep the party’s far-right fringe happy with Premier Danielle Smith at least until next month’s annual general meeting. So whether it’s trying to control […]
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Primary and Preventative Health Services Ministry changes website message to say Albertans can book next year for vaccines
Blaming “false statements on social media” for the confusion, the Alberta Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health Services has amended its website vaccination pre-ordering page to say that Albertans will still be able to book COVID-19 and influenza websites next year even if they don’t pre-order now. Until today, the statement on the government’s BookVaccine.Alberta.ca […]
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Seriously? We only have until Dec. 15 this year to order flu and COVID vaccines for next year?
Is Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government seriously proposing to make anyone who wants an influenza or COVID-19 vaccination next year order it during an unannounced 78-day window that is already 20 days gone and closes on Dec. 15? Alternatively, are they planning to base the amount of COVID-19 and influenza vaccine they’re expecting to order […]