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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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 ...
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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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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).
Alberta Politics

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 ...
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 ...
Alberta Politics

UCP Calgary-Shaw by-election nomination winner assailed as ‘extremist’ by NDP

Successful UCP Calgary-Shaw nomination candidate Mike Derry, at right, with Premier Danielle Smith and his campaign manager, Craig Chandler (Photo: Facebook via The Breakdown). Mike Derry’s choice as ...
Alberta Politics

Right-wing think tankers urge PM Mark Carney to leave Alberta alone to undermine public health care

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, seen here with Hospitals and Surgical Services Minister Adriana LaGrange, at a news conference about her plan to privatize more surgeries (Photo: Alberta ...
Alberta Politics

Jack Mintz, chair of panel studying pros and cons of Alberta separation, seems to have made up his mind in favour of secession

Jack Mintz with then Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in March 2020, just after Mr. Kenney appointed the University of Calgary economist to an emergency panel on how the province could get through one of ...
Alberta Politics

Four NDP MLAs, three of them cabinet veterans, announce plans to retire after next election

Joe Ceci, then the MLA for Calgary-Fort, greets well-wishers on the Alberta Legislature grounds in Edmonton on May 24, 2015, the day he was sworn in as finance minister (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).