At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where’s John A. Macdonald when we need him?
At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where’s John A. Macdonald when we need him? I speak, of course, not of the policies that gave rise to the tragic…
Alberta Politics
Danielle Smith has a sovereignty moment, claiming she can make it illegal for fossil fuel companies to comply with federal laws
Was Premier Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act moment yesterday formal notice she intends to unilaterally declare Alberta independence soon, evidence she thinks she’s found a magic constitutional formula to overturn federal…
Alberta pulls plug (again) on regional planning – a big win for the ‘Sprawl Cabal,’ not so much for city taxpayers
The United Conservative Party is pulling the plug on regional planning in Alberta in a move that will be a big win for the “Sprawl Cabal” of wealthy developers and…
Guest post: Science versus the Alberta Minister of Hunting and Fishing
As Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government continues to flood the zone with daily news releases announcing dubious and dangerous policy changes, it’s very hard to keep up and provide measured…
Stephen Harper’s appointment today as chair of AIMCo board ends pension management company’s ‘arm’s length’ status
Make no mistake, with the appointment this morning of Stephen Harper as chair of the governing board of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. we can forget about the notion that…
The judgment of history confirmed: Jason Kenney’s equalization motion in the Legislature is deader than the proverbial mackerel
Busted in June 2021 by a mystery photographer as he boozed it up with a group of cronies in defiance of COVID-19 restrictions on a government building’s controversial rooftop patio…
UCP switches health care zones for ‘corridors’ – making ‘hallway medicine’ the new normal everywhere in Alberta!
It turns out not everything about yesterday’s announcement that the United Conservative Government is “making progress refocusing the health care system” was illogical and misleading. One tidbit about the chaotic…
Let’s face it, ‘Ms. Smith Goes to Washington’ for Donald Trump’s inauguration isn’t likely to be a critical success
One can feel a little sympathy with Danielle Smith for wanting to be at Donald Trump’s second inauguration on Jan. 20, especially since the trip is likely to be on…
Stephen Harper: will he actually help Danielle Smith try to wreck the Canada Pension Plan?
Is Stephen Harper, the man who holds Pierre Poilievre’s puppet strings, actually going to help Danielle Smith try to wreck the Canada Pension Plan? Even considering how much trouble the…
Report says UCP wants Stephen Harper to lead AIMCo board, just about the worst pension management idea you’ve ever heard
BNN Bloomberg is a reasonably sober business news organization, so when it reports as it did yesterday that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government wants to make Stephen Harper chair of…
Nate Horner wants us to believe AIMCo’s board richly deserved to be summarily fired
Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner wants us to believe he sacked the CEO and entire board of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. last Thursday because, as his news release put…
Firing of AIMCo CEO and entire board another sign UCP is determined to control everything, everywhere, all at once
With its surprise decision to cashier the entire board and the top executive of the supposedly independent Alberta Investment Management Corp., we see once again that the United Conservative Party…
Some post-election-night hot takes on the coming MAGA Restoration south of the Medicine Line
Whoever forms the next Canadian government, no matter how sympathetic they may be right now to next January’s MAGA Restoration south of the Medicine Line, the next four years at…
Here in Alberta, if the oilpatch ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy – and profitable fossil fuel corporations hate Ottawa’s emissions cap plan
Remember, here in Alberta, if the oilpatch ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. Still, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s theatrical extended temper tantrum in the Legislature Building’s media room yesterday in response…
Danielle Smith’s 91.5% leadership review approval rate shows there’s almost no one left in the UCP but the extremists
No one should be shocked by the fact Alberta Premier Danielle Smith not only survived her leadership review vote but posted an absurd sounding 91.5-per-cent approval rating. The explanation is…
Danielle Smith introduces harsh but politically expedient anti-trans legislation – she didn’t always sound like this
Can Danielle Smith be trusted about anything she says? Now that Alberta’s premier has introduced what is widely acknowledged to be the harshest anti-transgender legislation in Canada, rivalling that in…
Happy Halloween! Danielle Smith offers mostly rosy ‘State of the Province’ summary, predictable complaints about Ottawa
Happy Halloween! Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gave her annual tritely titled “State of the Province” speech yesterday to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, complaining about Ottawa but painting a rosy…
The Alberta Bill of Rights Amendment Act, 2024, otherwise known as Bill 1, is a fundamentally unserious document
Now that we have before us an actual copy of the United Conservative Party’s first bill of the fall 2024 sitting of the Legislature, the new and improved Alberta Bill…
Guest post: Alberta’s UCP government is poised to let foundering elk farms be turned into ‘hunt preserves’
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any goofier, it looks like Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to succumb to a long-standing lobby by financially hard-pressed game farmers to…
Danielle Smith’s government doubles down on its War on Trans Kids, performative new ‘rights,’ to woo far-right UCP base
According to some wag on the Internet, Blaine Higgs has changed his pronouns. They’re now Has/Been. I don’t know enough about New Brunswick politics to be certain if the cruel…