Alberta PoliticsOpinion

Alberta propaganda push suggests UCP is encountering stiffer opposition to AI data centres than it expected

The United Conservative Party Government must be encountering stiffer opposition than it expected to its plan to make Alberta ...
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Alberta Day is coming on Sept. 1! It won’t be replacing Labour Day any time soon

Owing to the vagaries of the Georgian calendar, Labour Day won’t happen this year until Sept. 7. This may or may not be a ...
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Let’s go back to the future Danielle Smith promised us: ‘No one should ever have to pay out of pocket to see a family doctor’

Hi, I’m Danielle Smith, and I believe no one should ever have to pay out of pocket to see a family doctor.” So said Alberta’s ...
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Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade

Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer in the 2028-2029 fiscal year will likely result cuts of more than $50 billion for health care in Canada’s provinces and territories over the ...
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Was the separation petition ‘too big to rig’? Elections Alberta thinks so – many Albertans will not be so sure

Too big to rig,” proclaimed yesterday’s Canadian Press headline, carrying more than a little water for Jeffrey Rath, house ...
Alberta Politics

UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a news conference last May, as she pushed her idea for a series of murkily worded, often deceptive “referendum” questions designed to advance a grab-bag of policy ...
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Danielle Smith and Doug Ford, each facing criticism at home, announce performative pre-election pipeline pact

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford at their Calgary news conference yesterday (Photo: Screenshot of Alberta Government video). A northern route to Sarnia for Alberta heavy ...
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Ms. Smith’s chief of staff, Rob Anderson, at a union protest in 2013 – that’s former AUPE President Guy Smith’s gloved hand on his shoulder, I kid you not (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).
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Meta announcement shows Alberta’s determination to welcome AI data centres, public anxiety notwithstanding

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at her Meta AI data centre news conference in Calgary yesterday (Photo: Screenshot of Alberta Government video). Other than a few jobs and modest annual government ...
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UCP’s ‘constitutional’ referendum questions push a grab-bag of right-wing policy goals intended to divide and weaken Canada

The Court of Appeal of Alberta in Calgary – a key target of the Smith Government’s plan to undermine Canada by weakening federal institutions through deceptive referendum questions that push a ...
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Obviously impressed by the nice reception the NDP gave him, Sen. Lindsay Graham said Donald Trump made him ‘want to move to Canada’

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines in October 2015, not long after his return from Alberta (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons). In 2015, the Wildrose ...
Alberta Politics

Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition

Musician, songwriter and clean-water advocate Corb Lund, who believes “we got screwed on this thing pretty hard” (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Combined with ongoing UCP electoral jiggery-pokery, this ...