The UCP Is Being Petty and Vengeful
The UCP government is now becoming vengeful - openly so. In the 2023 Alberta Election, rural Alberta voted UCP, and urban Alberta didn't (at least not the kind of sweep…
Alberta Politics
Hope y’all had a great Labour Day/Labor Day, fellow Albertans, while our premier popped up in Texas
While Albertans celebrated the traditional final long weekend of the summer amid unseasonable heat, Premier Danielle Smith popped up in Texas, all but ignoring the occasion. This is pretty much…
Recovery Alberta, the first new agency to be carved out of Alberta Health Services, officially begins operations
Recovery Alberta, the new mental health, addiction and correctional health agency created by the province’s United Conservative Party Government as it proceeds with its project of dismantling Alberta Health Services,…
Prime minister announces two Alberta Senate appointments; UCP throws predictably petulant tantrum
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced two long-anticipated Alberta appointments to the Senate of Canada this morning. Kristopher Wells of St. Albert is a post-secondary educator and champion of Alberta’s 2SLGBTQI+…
Claims about UCP Bill of Rights by anti-abortion ‘purveyor of misleading information’ sparks online brouhaha
A claim by an anti-abortion website that a “current draft” of the United Conservative Party’s planned revisions to the recondite Alberta Bill of Rights would extend rights to “all persons…
Possibly the biggest rollback of public health insurance in Canadian history gets underway in Alberta with barely a peep of protest
With the creation of the Recovery Alberta agency and the plan to farm out of all addiction recovery treatment programs to a small group of out-of-province private operators with a…
Danielle Smith touts frightening AHS leaders, handing hospitals to church-run system as cures for Alberta’s health care woes
A story published by a community newspaper chain late Monday quotes Premier Danielle Smith telling a United Conservative Party town hall in Drayton Valley how she plans to hand over…
How The UCP Is Lining Up To Steal Your Healthcare (and Rights)
Things are beginning to line up in terms of the UCP's plan and we can see now how they are going to attack health care and Albertans. There's quite a…
NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi spotted at an NDP BBQ in Calgary, preaching to the choir
I had coffee with my old friend Buff yesterday, and Buff had a theory about what’s happened to NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi since his slam dunk 86-per-cent victory over all…
RTIA faculty member is operations director of controversial B.C. addiction recovery society
One of the faculty members named on the Recovery Training Institute of Alberta’s website has ties to a controversial B.C. addiction recovery society that owns a tracking app that must…
Larry Hubich, former SFL leader, connects the dots about who is actually putting the country at risk of a national rail shutdown
Reading the universally terrible mainstream news coverage of the continuing negotiations between the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and Canada’s two largest rail corporations, not to mention angry commentary by anti-union…
Thank goodness, there’s no known Alberta connection to Pierre Poilievre’s embarrassing ‘Canada, Our Home’ video!
Pierre Poilievre’s now infamous white-hat-and-white-T-shirt video was no sooner posted on Saturday than social media was lit up by mockers pointing out that almost none of the scenes used to…
Smith government’s announcement of the ‘Recovery Training Institute of Alberta’ raises more questions than it answers
Thursday’s Alberta Government news release announcing the official opening of so-called Lakeview Recovery Community in a rural area west of Edmonton included the intriguing tidbit that the facility will also…
‘Lakeside Recovery Community’ clearly intended to be showpiece for UCP’s controversial ‘Alberta Recovery Model’
“Alberta opens its third world-class recovery community,” said the headline on a news release sent by the Alberta Government to media yesterday morning about the opening of a “recovery community”…
Raj Sherman is back again, this time as Danielle Smith’s man at the head of the Health Quality Council of Alberta
As if to reinforce his role as the proverbial bad penny of Alberta politics, Raj Sherman has turned up again – this time as Premier Danielle Smith’s man at the…
Where’s Naheed? Alberta’s New Democrats need to know!
So where’s Naheed? Alberta’s New Democrats need to know! Since June 22, when Naheed Nenshi posted his crushing 86-per-cent victory on the first ballot in the race to replace former…
Alberta Health Services letters tell COVID-19 long-haulers specialized long-COVID clinics are being shut down
It’s not hard to connect the dots between the anti-vaccine extremists including Premier Danielle Smith who now dominate Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the admission by a beleaguered Alberta Health…
Did an anti-vaxx MLA just suggest the UCP is about to ban COVID-19 vaccines? Or what?
A video clip of Calgary-Lougheed MLA Eric Bouchard musing about the future of COVID-19 vaccinations on an anti-vaxx video podcast stirred up a storm on social media yesterday among commenters…
Honey! I shrunk the party! UCP membership shrivels as Danielle Smith moves farther into loony MAGA territory
Honey! I shrunk the party! Sharp-eyed denizens of the Twittersphere yesterday noticed a United Conservative party update that, presumably inadvertently, gave away a dramatic drop in party membership since the…
No shock: UCP freeze on renewable electricity generation projects and resulting uncertainty lead to deep chill on investments
It should come as no shock on the first anniversary of the United Conservative Party Government’s seven-month freeze on the development of renewable electricity projects that the policy has resulted…