Alberta Politics: ‘Tylenot’ is here at last, premier and health minister proclaim, just in time for no one to want to buy the stuff

Ridiculed for their weirdly incompetent response to last fall’s shortage of children’s fever medication, which has ended up costing Albertans $80 million for 750,000 bottles of a non-standard product that can’t be bought off the shelf, Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government decided to brazen it out instead. NDP Children’s

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Northern Reflections: A Very Bad Place

Michael Harris writes that populism is destroying our politics: Opposition politics has always been the process of casting the appropriate lights and shadows over the other guy’s record—and the facts. No surprise there.   The job of opposition is to oppose, so the characterization of incumbent governments has almost never been

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