Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week.- Greg Sargent highlights how Donald Trump's pretense of concern for working-class people has given way to the largest transfer of wealth to plutocrats in…
Danielle Smith
Despite bad reviews for its sovereignty panel, UCP sails into Canada Day weekend with the wind in its sails
Even considering the bad reviews the ridiculous Alberta Next Panel has been getting since Premier Danielle Smith announced it on Tuesday, her United Conservative Party is sailing into the Canada…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Watts talks to Genevieve Guenther about the need to keep talking about the many climate tipping points in front of us - along…
Today is by-election day in three Alberta ridings
Vote suppression is a venerable part of any conservative party’s election-day strategy, but you have to admit that adding biological warfare to the mix puts a creative new spin on…
Guest post by Bradley Lafortune: I went to Danielle Smith’s Coal Town Hall in Fort Macleod and here’s why it went off the rails
On June 11, more than 500 people showed up in Fort Macleod, near the site of the historic North West Mounted Police post about 170 kilometres south of Calgary, for…
Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan yet for running public health care, but just like Donald Trump she’s got a concept of a plan
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t have a coherent plan for running public health care yet, but yesterday she revealed that, just like her hero Donald J. Trump, she has a…
Despite what Danielle Smith says, Alberta’s new COVID vaccine policy is not about saving money or cost recovery
Everybody who’s been paying attention to what Alberta Danielle Smith has been saying and doing for years understands that her government’s new policy of forcing Albertans to pay for COVID-19…
Danielle Smith has news for the people of Canada: you have ‘the lowest living standards in the world’
I’ve been writing these little meditations on the state of politics in Alberta now longer than it takes an infant to grow old enough to vote and in that time…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Doug Cuthand offers a reminder that the need for forward-thinking climate action hasn't been reduced just because any discussion of the possibility has…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Edward Zitron writes about the idiotic results of purging all considerations from business decision-making other than goosing short-term share prices. And EuropeanPowell examines…
When the dust settles from Danielle Smith’s cabinet shuffle, 60% of her caucus will be ministers!
Thanks to Friday’s cabinet reshuffle, more than half of the entire United Conservative Party caucus in the Alberta Legislature is now a member of Premier Danielle Smith’s cabinet! To be…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump's absolute lack of inhibition is responsible for the disastrous effects of his regime - and how a…
Jason Kenney, Alberta’s first UCP premier, warns that its second one could kill investment with her separation talk
Let it be acknowledged that while Jason Kenney’s assessment of the danger posed by the United Conservative Party’s continued flirtation with separatism is spot on, it was he, Alberta’s first…
Danielle Smith and the Alberta Prosperity Project: Who’s pulling whose strings?
So, is Danielle Smith pulling the Alberta Prosperity Project’s strings, or are the pushers of the prosperity project pulling the premier’s? Yesterday, a separatist sub-faction of the Alberta conservative movement’s…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon discusses the problem with the concentration of power in the hands of a few tycoons who see no purpose for most human…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- David Suzuki and Ian Hanington write about the importance of a courageous approach to climate change policy, while Nature's editorial board discusses the desperate…
Danielle Smith proposes a new theory of why Alberta needs a separation referendum
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s only enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country to keep a separatist party…
Danielle Smith explains why, as a strong believer in Canada, she’ll do whatever she can to help Alberta’s separatists
RED DEER – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called a news conference yesterday to tell the impertinent journalists who showed up why, as a strong believer in Canadian Confederation, she intends…