Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet!
Sooner or later, Albertans are probably going to start to suffer from petition fatigue. But not just yet. Too many of us are having too much fun with the understanding…
Alberta Politics
Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands
Now that Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite foreign autocrat appears to be on the brink of transforming himself from a successful “peace candidate” into a war president, it would behoove folks…
Forever Canadian campaign delivers petition forms signed by 456,365 citizens to Elections Alberta
When Thomas Lukaszuk said he could bring Elections Alberta pro-Canada petition forms signed by 300,000 Albertans in the three months allowed by the United Conservative Party’s “citizen initiative” legislation, there…
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers
Overreach, anyone? Since the start of the legal strike by 51,000 Alberta public, francophone and Catholic schoolteachers on October 6, elements of the province’s United Conservative Party Government have been…
If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation
If the Alberta Prosperity Project hoped to hold the largest public protest in Alberta history yesterday, as some organizers of the “independence rally” that took place in front of the…
Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention
Sandra Azocar, who started working for the Alberta Government as a child protection worker in 1987, has been elected president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. The Chilean-born union…
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction
Having already solved the problem of trade and tariffs with the United States simply by being nice to the Trump Administration, Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to “end the…
Danielle Smith announces another step down the rocky road to U.S.-style health care
Just to give us something to think about while we await the Speech from the Throne this afternoon, Premier Danielle Smith yesterday announced Albertans will soon have the opportunity to…
Civic election hot take: UCP’s big-money, small-party scheme to elect friendlier city councils mostly flops
Looks like the United Conservative Party’s scheme to encourage civic political parties and allow big corporate money to make it easier to elect ideologically simpatico mayors and councillors in Alberta’s…
The key to understanding UCP’s legislative agenda is the UCP’s annual general meeting next month
The key to understanding the Alberta Legislature’s fall agenda is knowing that almost everything on the list trotted out yesterday by United Conservative Party House Leader Joseph Schow is there…
Primary and Preventative Health Services Ministry changes website message to say Albertans can book next year for vaccines
Blaming “false statements on social media” for the confusion, the Alberta Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health Services has amended its website vaccination pre-ordering page to say that Albertans will…
Seriously? We only have until Dec. 15 this year to order flu and COVID vaccines for next year?
Is Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government seriously proposing to make anyone who wants an influenza or COVID-19 vaccination next year order it during an unannounced 78-day window that is already…
Jack Flaherty, elected as St. Albert’s MLA at 71 in 2004, remembered for hard work in Opposition and congenial nature
Jack Flaherty, the congenial retired St. Albert schoolteacher, school superintendent, and senior civil servant recruited to run by the Alberta Liberals in 2004, scoring an upset victory at 71 years…
Danielle Smith declares herself vindicated by Wyant report on dodgy contracts scandal
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has declared herself, her political aides and her government vindicated by a former Manitoba judge’s limited investigation of contract jiggery-pokery at Alberta Health Services. In a…
Who knew that the public would end up supporting striking teachers? Not Danielle Smith and the UCP!
Who knew the public would end up supporting 51,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers in spite of the United Conservative Party Government’s blithe gaslighting about the reasons for the labour dispute now…
Sorry, we’re closed … Well, OK, just three more things
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith poked the top of her head out of the hole she’d dug for herself yesterday and announced her government has momentarily “paused” the book ban she…
Alberta celebrates Labour Day on the brink of a major labour dispute with the province’s teachers
Happy Labour Day! Starting tomorrow, with the Labour Day holiday behind us and another school year about to commence, Alberta news coverage will be “laser focused,” as our government likes…
Danielle Smith and her ministers burrow deeper into their self-dug book-ban and bargaining holes
Premier Danielle Smith and her education and finance ministers spent much of the day yesterday digging themselves deeper into the holes they started with their it’s-not-a-book-ban ban on books and…
No Margaret Atwood, please! We’re Albertan!
Thanks to Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides’ book ban, it looks as if the work of iconic Canadian author Margaret Atwood is on a list of books to be stripped from…