Mark Carney comes back to Edmonton, warms up with Oilers, infuriates Danielle Smith
It may just be a political stunt when a prime minister comes to the capital city of Alberta, puts on his skates and a jersey with his own name on…
Alberta Politics
Amid performative tantrum about ‘federal overreach,’ UCP tries to goad Mark Carney
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is having another tantrum about federal environmental regulatory overreach, mostly imagined, by the former Trudeau Government. Yesterday’s meltdown came in the form of an announcement…
Moribund newspaper chain names former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to its board
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., operator of the flagging chain of English-language Canadian newspapers and clickbait websites, yesterday announced the appointment of former Alberta Conservative premier Jason Kenney to its board…
Alberta 12-year-olds will soon be able to hunt without adult supervision using laser targeting devices
Hey, 12-year-olds in Alberta will soon be able to hunt without adult supervision using laser targeting devices on their hunting rifles! What could possibly go wrong? Parks and Forestry Minister…
CUPE education workers in Fort Mac and Edmonton reach settlement deal after weeks on picket lines
After more than 17 weeks in some cases, braving temperatures that dipped into the sub 40s if you don’t count the wind-chill, education workers represented by the Canadian Union of…
Former AHS CEO wants her wrongful dismissal lawsuit to skip oral questions and ‘proceed directly to trial’
Charging that “an army of lawyers at Bennett Jones has been hired to defend the Government, I assume at great expense to the taxpayer,” former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana…
Sure looks like it’s pride that keeps the UCP from just dumping that useless Turkish ‘Tylenot’ it bought in 2022 to own the Libs
Pride, according to the Solomonic wisdom, goeth before destruction. Here in Wild Rose Country, though, it goeth before a big storage fee! So far, for example, it’s cost something like…
Reshuffling EMS services to a redundant new bureaucracy may not make much sense, but that’s what the UCP is doing
Now that most of the province’s ambulances and their crews have finally all been transferred to Alberta Health Services, the United Conservative Party Government has decided to transfer them all…
Jason Kenney is back on social media, and boy, does he sound cranky! So what’s up?
Jason Kenney is back! And, boy, does he sound cranky! What’s up? Once upon a time, Alberta’s first United Conservative Party premier was an industrious social media commentator – or…
Did Donald Trump just save Canadian supply management for another generation?
OTTAWA – It’s a funny old world and it looks as if Donald Trump just saved supply management. If there’s a single thing hated with abiding passion by Canadian market…
Finance Minister Nate Horner delivers a Budget Speech with a split personality
Finance Minister Nate Horner rose in the Alberta Legislature yesterday afternoon and delivered a Budget Speech with a split personality that reflects the rock and the hard place the United…
Good Morning, Alberta! It’s Budget Day in Wild Rose Country! Brace yourself!
Good Morning, Alberta! It’s Budget Day in Wild Rose Country! South of the 49th Parallel, U.S. President Donald Trump is still talking tariffs, keeping everyone on the edge of their…
Deny! Distract! Deflect! The Alberta Legislature resumes sitting
The Alberta Legislature got back to business yesterday, with a desperate United Conservative Party Government mired in a dodgy contracts scandal of its own creation flailing about for ways to…
Make no mistake, the UCP’s planned ‘compassionate intervention centres’ will be jails
Make no mistake, the two “compassionate intervention centres” planned by Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government will be jails. At a fancy televised news conference in Calgary yesterday with a large…
Impact of those dodgy contracts allegations continues to spread – so, did anyone ever call the cops?
Did anyone ever call the cops? What are the Mounties doing, if anything? In Paragraph 60 of her statement of claim for her $1.7-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit, former Alberta Health…
Still struggling to control damage from Dodgy Contracts Scandal, Danielle Smith claims AHS conspired to block UCP private surgery scheme
Finally responding in person to Athana Mentzelopoulos’s $1.7-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit, Premier Danielle Smith stood up at a government news conference in Calgary yesterday and spent part of the tightly…
Two cheers for Don Getty, who gave Alberta the Family Day long weekend in February
Happy Family Day! The winters around here are long. T.S. Eliot may have reckoned April was the cruellest month, but anyone from Alberta knows it’s February, season of the original…
Crack appears in UCP’s solid front as cabinet member calls for Adriana LaGrange to be sacked as health minister
For the first time since Danielle Smith became premier of Alberta in the fall of 2022, a rift in United Conservative Party cabinet ranks appeared in public view yesterday over…
If the UCP hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal, someone’s going to have to fall on their sword
If Danielle Smith hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal that’s been dogging her since the former CEO of Alberta Health Services challenged the United Conservative Party…
Athana Mentzelopoulos files her $1.7-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit and the stuff starts really hitting the fan
Fired Alberta Health Services Chief Executive Officer Athana Mentzelopoulos’s lawyers have filed her $1.7-million lawsuit alleging she was fired “capriciously, arbitrarily, and in bad faith because she was actually carrying…