When we heard Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner say yesterday he’s encouraged to hear that the federal government will ask the Government of Canada’s chief actuary to determine how much cash Alberta would actually get if it were to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan, we could predict with reasonable confidence he won’t be […]
As Edmonton activist Michael Kalmanovitch sees it, with the planet afire, he had no choice but to raise a ruckus at the Legislature
There has been fallout. Speaker Nathan Cooper is said to have decreed guests will never again be seated inside the legislative chamber.
UCP expands role of government’s chief advisor on union negotiations, former AUPE negotiator Kevin Davediuk
Once excoriated as a union fox in the taxpayer henhouse by Conservative politicians and right-wing editorialists, Kevin Davediuk has now in effect been made Alberta’s Public Pay Czar.
The mystery of Bill 5: Is it part of the UCP’s covert ‘Free Alberta’ agenda or just a bit of administrative housekeeping?
Albertans should be paying attention to the separatist project that animates the government of Premier Smith and measuring all UCP policies against it.
Alberta’s Throne Speech was long, boring, unpersuasive, evasive, unoriginal, and defiantly aspirational
The Speech from the Gallery, by contrast, was concise, frank, and could turn out to be a more accurate prophecy of Alberta’s future than the one in the official disquisition.
Alberta’s Legislature shudders back to life this afternoon – what will the UCP get up to next?
How do you report honestly on policies of the Smith Government, or the ridiculous and contradictory statements made by Premier Danielle Smith, without sounding like you’ve slipped your mooring?
Help was on the way? Looks like the goal of UCP’s $70M+ ‘Tylenot’ stunt was simply to own the Libs
UCP insiders seem remarkably calm about the Globe’s revelation Thursday Alberta will probably never receive about 70 per cent or 3.5 million bottles of the oddball Turkish-made medicine it squandered more than $70 million to buy.
Continuing CPP uproar means Danielle Smith and the UCP are getting what they want: the grownups are paying attention!
Canada’s finance ministers will get together to talk about how to respond to Alberta’s really bad, terrible, unpopular idea to ditch the Canada Pension Plan.
International Energy Agency predicts fossil fuel use will peak by 2030 – whatever will Alberta have to say?
Maybe Alberta Premier Danielle Smith can send an open letter to Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, to accuse him of trying to frighten Alberta’s seniors. Or maybe she’ll say nothing at all about the World Energy Outlook report the IEA published yesterday, which concluded that our planet is hurtling toward a […]
Congratulations on your appointment, Mr. Dinning, your pension ‘consultation’ has a few flaws: CPP public affairs leader
CPP public affairs chief Michel Leduc’s diplomatic but damning letter to Jim Dinning about the Alberta Government’s biased and manipulative pension ‘consultation’ really is a work of art.
Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre joins Alberta pension plan uproar, proffers weak endorsement of Canada Pension Plan
Obviously, “I encourage Albertans to stay in the CPP” is pretty weak beer when it comes to an endorsement of our national pension plan.
Will Danielle Smith’s pension scheme drive a wedge right into the heart of Conservative support?
Danielle Smith’s pension machinations have handed the Trudeau Government – seemingly on the ropes – the perfect way to let the air out of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s tires.