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 25, 2021. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, and include sales at Audreys Books in Edmonton and Glass Bookshop in Edmonton. ALBERTA FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. The Rose Code – Kate […]
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Premier’s news conference shows little change in Alberta’s inconsistent, indecisive, confusing, unsuccessful approach to COVID-19
If there was an obvious takeaway yesterday afternoon from Premier Jason Kenney’s announcement Alberta is reimposing “targeted regional measures to bend the curve,” it was that his government’s inconsistent, indecisive and confusing approach to COVID-19 will continue. With the third wave of the pandemic smashing Alberta infection records yesterday and leaving the province embarrassingly exposed […]
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Alberta heads into record-breaking territory as new COVID-19 cases surpass second-wave record set in December
Pandemic cases in Alberta are breaking records. CBC reporter Robson Fletcher’s daily accounting of the latest Alberta Health Services estimates indicated that probable and confirmed new cases of COVID-19 reached 1,888 yesterday – surpassing the previous single-day record, set on Dec. 4 during the second wave, of 1,874. Yesterday’s official tally, which you may have […]
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Kenney Government hastily cobbles together ‘working parents’ advisory panel’ to seek ways to undermine federal child care proposal
On April 19, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the Trudeau Government plans to spend $30 billion on a national child care plan with a target of reducing parents’ costs to $10 a day per child in five years. On April 22, Alberta Children’s Services Minister Rebecca Schulz announced that the Kenney Government had cobbled together […]
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Kenney’s surrender to COVID: Has the Great Barrington Declaration become the Great Edmonton Declaration?
Did the Great Barrington Declaration just transition into the Great Edmonton Declaration? Remember that thing? The now discredited notion – with the thinnest veneer of transitory scientific respectability – that everything would be OK if we just shielded the old folks from COVID-19 and ignored almost everyone else while the coronavirus pandemic ripped around the […]
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Kinney versus Kenney: Can a progressive gadfly offer unhappy Albertans a way to send their premier a message?
Progressive gadfly Duncan Kinney, executive director of the progressive news and advocacy organization behind the Progress Report newsletter and podcast, is the first Albertan to file his papers with Elections Alberta to run in the Kenney Government’s “Senate Nominee Election.” Such Senate votes – they’re not really elections as electing senators is not a provincial […]
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Small donors, potential election volunteers, flock to Alberta NDP as disillusionment with Jason Kenney grows
Alberta’s New Democratic Party raised twice as much as the ruling United Conservative Party in the first quarter of 2021. And we’re not just talking about chicken feed here, people. The first-quarter report on political donations by Elections Alberta shows the NDP, led by former premier Rachel Notley, raised $1,186,245.03 in the first three months […]
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Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson’s first novel, published in 2000, tops independent bookshops’ Alberta 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 18, 2021. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, and include sales at Audreys Books in Edmonton and Glass Bookshop in Edmonton. One of the charms of a bestseller list based […]
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Bill to hinder COVID-negligence suits against long-term-care firms will also protect Kenney Government from scrutiny
The Kenney Government would like you to think the bill it introduced yesterday to make it hard to sue long-term-care companies for negligence causing the death from COVID-19 of anyone in their care “strikes a balance between protecting those who have dutifully followed the rules with still permitting civil action to proceed against those whose […]
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Legislature passes transitory vaccine leave legislation, a worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Alberta style!
Never let it be said the United Conservative Party has done nothing worthwhile during the two years it’s been in power in Alberta. Late yesterday the Alberta Legislature passed a bill amending the Employment Standards Code “to ensure working Albertans can access up to three hours of paid, job-protected leave to get the COVID-19 vaccine,” […]
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$10-a-day child care in Alberta? Forget about it! Federal plan prompts Kenney to call up conservatism’s culture warriors
If cornered, will the Kenney Government flat out say no to federal funds for child care? It sure looks like it. But first, as is ever the case when the United Conservative Party’s lizard brain confronts a potentially popular publicly funded program, Premier Jason Kenney will rush with his loyal partisans to their favourite barricade: […]
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There are better ways for Alberta’s only New Democrat to spend her time than calling for more Canadian troops on Russia’s doorstep
Last week, Heather McPherson, New Democrat Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, was sounding as belligerent as any Alberta Conservative on the topic of what she termed “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.” In a lead-up to a question in the House of Commons, a clip of which Ms. McPherson distributed on social media, the NDP’s deputy […]