Alberta Politics: ‘Lunatics’ really are running the asylum: UCP-TBA fusion starts to sink in with the Alberta commentariat

It was finally starting to sink in with Alberta commentariat yesterday in the aftermath of the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting that the lunatics really are running the asylum, to borrow a colourful metaphor from former premier and UCP founder Jason Kenney.  Calgary Herald political columnist Don Braid (Photo:

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Alberta Politics: Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre joins Alberta pension plan uproar, proffers weak endorsement of Canada Pension Plan

In an obvious effort to inoculate himself against being identified as an enemy of the Canada Pension Plan, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday inserted himself into the open-letter uproar over the Alberta Government’s plan to force the province’s citizens out of the CPP with a statement of his own.

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A Puff of Absurdity: Media Subterfuge

Want to be a respected news outlet? Stop writing horribly misleading headlines. An article in The Guardian is causing a stir, not because of what the article says, but because of the heading and subheading:  “Thousands of Covid generation under-fives excluded from schools in England: Nearly half of children in some

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A Puff of Absurdity: The New CPC

Image from this great Breach article Remember back when Harper was PM, and he opened Canada’s media to foreign ownership despite widespread protests? So now Poilievre all but owns Canadian MSM. Media is backing him and many pollsters are backing him, and Trudeau has little mainstream media on his side. Even

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Alberta Politics: Environment minister in government that won’t approve geothermal projects visits new geothermal project in Germany

Alberta’s environment minister, Rebecca Schulz, is in Germany today, getting set to celebrate the opening of a large geothermal electricity-generating project that uses technology designed by a Calgary company.  Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). At the same time, back home in Wild Rose Country, geothermal projects

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