Reviewing The Cass Review Report
The subtitle for this should be "How Cass Weaponized Science".Now that the Cass Review has published their final report, it is possible to look beyond the apparent issues in how…
Alberta Politics
Reviewing The Cass Review Report
The subtitle for this should be "How Cass Weaponized Science".Now that the Cass Review has published their final report, it is possible to look beyond the apparent issues in how…
Columnist: Calgary mayor walks on water? We have proof she can’t swim!
If Jyoti Gondek took off her shoes one summer day and walked across the Glenmore Reservoir, Rick Bell’s next column would probably say it proved she can’t swim. Calgary Mayor…
Danielle Smith says she wants to skim Heritage Fund investment revenues to ‘de-risk’ fossil fuel investments lenders won’t touch
Danielle Smith says she wants to skim off investment income from the province’s famously mismanaged Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund to prop up oilpatch investment ideas so bad they can’t…
So! It really was the anti-greenwashing provision in Ottawa’s Bill C-59 that pushed the UCP into shutting down the War Room
It’s official now: Calgary Herald political columnist Don Braid has breathlessly reported, to paraphrase the headline on the column he posted yesterday, that it was the threat of federal fines…
The Alberta Energy War Room is no more – except for the FOIPs that are bound to follow its demise
The Alberta Energy War Room is kaput. Supposedly, it’s about to be folded into a government department. NDP leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley released the news before the government could put…
Shannon Phillips to quit as MLA, citing the disinformation and viciousness women are subjected to in public life
Shannon Phillips, the high-profile NDP MLA for Lethbridge-West with a reputation for toughness and commitment, is leaving politics. Her resignation will take effect on Canada Day. Ms. Phillips on skates,…
Reviled no more, Alison Redford edges toward rehabilitation with appointment to Crown corporation’s board
Welcome home, Alison. All is forgiven. Gary Mar, the affable front-runner defeated by Ms. Redford in 2011 (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Well, maybe not everything. Behave yourself, though, and there…
Why settle for performative truth-in-advertising rules? UN head calls for total ban on fossil fuel industry ads
Why settle for a milquetoast truth-in-advertising law? The Secretary General of the United Nations wants the world to ban all advertising by the fossil fuel industry. Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca…
Could a federal climate change truth-in-advertising law pose a risk to the Alberta Energy War Room and its directors?
When Canadian Energy Centre Ltd., better known as “the Alberta Energy War Room,” was set up by premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government soon after its election in 2019,…
Billed as a leadership debate, NDP get-together in Edmonton yesterday was more of a candidates’ mutual-admiration society
The NDP get-together in Edmonton yesterday was billed as a leadership debate, the last one before voting commences today. In the event, though, it seemed more like a candidates’ mutual…
Tyler Shandro, source of constant controversy as UCP health minister, turns up as member of Covenant Health Board
Former Alberta health minister Tyler Shandro has been a member of the board of Covenant Health since December 2023. Mr. Shandro as he now appears on the Covenant Health board…
Truth in advertising? Forget about it, says the UCP, assailing Bill C-59 ‘gag order’ in overwrought screed
Say what you will about Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, you have to admire their sheer brass. Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay (Photo: Facebook/Charlie Angus). Consider the…
7 years ago, the NDP announced the location of a South Edmonton Hospital; thanks to the UCP, it will probably never be built
Seven years ago yesterday, Alberta’s NDP government announced the location of a desperately needed new hospital in South Edmonton. Keep your eye on this still-empty field, where no hospital will…
Farewell Rachel Notley – it’s pretty much all over now but the tribute speeches and the final fund-raisers
Well, farewell Rachel Notley. Ms. Notley’s official portrait is unveiled in the Alberta Legislature Building on Dec. 8, 2022 (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Yesterday marked the real end of the…
From pink earplugs to 54 push ups, UCP leaders wear their contempt for the Legislature on their sleeves
Say what you will about the United Conservative Party, they wear their contempt for Parliamentary democracy on their sleeves. Opposition Leader Rachel Notley (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Jason Kenney, the…
The worst premier Alberta never had is back – and he’s written a book taking credit for some of Danielle Smith’s worst ideas!
All of a sudden, Ted Morton’s back! Dr. Morton, as he obviously liked to be seen, in 2007 (Photo: Wikipedia, creator not clearly identified but probably Chuck Szmurlo). Frederick Lee…
‘Not one shred of evidence’ bill’s arbitrary measures are needed; they could block up to 50,000 Albertans from voting
Does Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver have any idea how many Albertans could be denied the right to vote in the next general election because of the United Conservative Party’s…
Don’t worry, Edmonton is still ‘Redmonton,’ but all of a sudden Calgary’s looking orange as well
Much – probably too much – is being made of the fact the Alberta NDP’s organizing efforts in Calgary have shifted the Opposition party’s centre of gravity from Edmonton to…
Guest Post: Israeli weapons manufacturers will soon be using Alberta as a testing ground to market their latest weapons
Former journalist Todd Pruner, the author of this guest post (Photo: Todd Pruner). Since Oct. 7, 2023, the news from Gaza, and from the Occupied West Bank, has grown more…