Reserve Powers, The Notwithstanding Clause, and Unjust Laws
Since the Smith-led UCP government in Alberta saw fit to invoke The Notwithstanding Clause (S33) of The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (The Charter) to order teachers back to work…
Danielle Smith
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers
Overreach, anyone? Since the start of the legal strike by 51,000 Alberta public, francophone and Catholic schoolteachers on October 6, elements of the province’s United Conservative Party Government have been…
Danielle Smith announces another step down the rocky road to U.S.-style health care
Just to give us something to think about while we await the Speech from the Throne this afternoon, Premier Danielle Smith yesterday announced Albertans will soon have the opportunity to…
Danielle Smith declares herself vindicated by Wyant report on dodgy contracts scandal
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has declared herself, her political aides and her government vindicated by a former Manitoba judge’s limited investigation of contract jiggery-pokery at Alberta Health Services. In a…
Who knew that the public would end up supporting striking teachers? Not Danielle Smith and the UCP!
Who knew the public would end up supporting 51,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers in spite of the United Conservative Party Government’s blithe gaslighting about the reasons for the labour dispute now…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Don Moynihan examines the Trump regime's steps to build a police state whose only loyalty is to their mad king, while Andrew Egger…
Danielle Smith and her ministers burrow deeper into their self-dug book-ban and bargaining holes
Premier Danielle Smith and her education and finance ministers spent much of the day yesterday digging themselves deeper into the holes they started with their it’s-not-a-book-ban ban on books and…
Danielle Smith to Albertans: No way can you have free COVID vaccinations like every other Canadian
If you’d hoped Danielle Smith’s flip-flop from denying free COVID-19 vaccinations to health care workers to providing them might indicate she could also have a change of heart on vaccines…
In one day, Danielle Smith’s UCP government flip-flops on unpopular COVID and expense claim policies – so what’s up?
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government just flip-flopped on plans to make health care workers pay for COVID-19 vaccinations and to stop making cabinet ministers file expense claims. So what gives?…
Alberta’s UCP government makes important breakthrough in Internet enshittification
With its BookVaccine.Alberta.ca website, which is confusing and upsetting significant numbers of Albertans fearful they will lose access to lifesaving COVID-19 immunization, Alberta’s United Conservative Party has made a significant…
Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins
Alberta’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing began yesterday with the appearance of a website where Albertans can register to be considered for COVID-19 immunization sometime in the fall…
Alberta premier and justice minister to chief electoral officer: Drop your plan to ask the courts about separation referendum question
Notwithstanding frequent protestations to the contrary, it gets harder by the day to believe Premier Danielle Smith and a significant portion of her cabinet and caucus are not fully committed…
Globe and Mail journalist was stalked and photographed by persons unknown for breaking stories about UCP Government
For several days the sordid tale of how a Globe and Mail journalist was stalked and photographed by a person or persons as yet unidentified has been one of the…
Danielle Smith, exhibiting remarkably thin skin, demands apology from Town of Jasper for consultant’s critical report on 2024 fire
Alberta’s thin-skinned premier clapped back at Jasper yesterday for daring to release a consultant’s after-action report about last July’s devastating fire that criticized her government’s response. Clearly the report’s indication…
‘My husband’s an adviser to me, and that’s allowed because he’s married to me,’ Alberta Premier Danielle Smith insists
Last month, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith replied snippily to a reporter’s question at a news conference that it was quite proper for her husband to take part in discussions about…
A Week In Alberta Politics
Alberta’s politics are an awful mess right now, and this past week has been quite a spectacle even for Alberta. Devin Dreeshen kicked things off by making a fuss over…
A Week In Alberta Politics
Alberta’s politics are an awful mess right now, and this past week has been quite a spectacle even for Alberta. Devin Dreeshen kicked things off by making a fuss over…