Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lucky Tran offers a reminder not to take seriously the anti-science cranks determined to claim that COVID-19 mitigation measures (including masking) should…
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Astonishing! It’s Budget Day and suddenly there’s no health care crisis, and Alberta Health Services is A-OK!
It’s a shocker! But it turns out there is no crisis at Alberta Health Services! NDP Seniors and Housing Critic Lori Sigurdson (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). No need to take…
The Day Premier Smith Lost All Credibility
Albertans are asking a lot of questions about RStar, the $100 million pilot program designed to give owners of inactive wells a royalty credit on new wells if they clean…
Episode 85: Naheed Nenshi on Calgary in Alberta’s 2023 election
Former Calgary mayor shares his thoughts on Danielle Smith, Rachel Notley and the city he calls home ahead of Alberta’s provincial election. Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi joins the Daveberta…
The RStar Debacle (Who’s going to clean up this mess?)
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” — opening scene, Star Wars The first thing I thought of when I heard the word RStar was the opening…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paula Span discusses how older Americans (and their peers elsewhere) have been left to navigate the pandemic with no consideration for their health…
The ‘RStar’ scam’s not a good deal, but it’s a done deal, even if it goes against a ‘core capitalist principle’
The shocker isn’t that the awful “RStar” scam is a done deal. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). The old fixeroo for that dirty deal has been in ever since…
Health care funding: Trudeau looks serene, even mischievous; premiers look like they’re just going to have to take it
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked like the smooth old political pro he has become yesterday as he laid out his health care deal for Canada’s perpetually dissatisfied and mostly Conservative…
Former premier, CMOH – both battered by the winds of COVID controversy – find soft post-pandemic landings
Surely it was mere coincidence that two of the principal actors in Alberta’s COVID-19 drama had soft post-pandemic landings announced yesterday. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Former…
Shandro’s Disciplinary Hearing
The “boiling frog syndrome” is a metaphor used to describe the failure to act against a problematic situation which will increase in severity until reaching catastrophic proportions.—Wikipedia. Let’s talk about…
Challenge accepted: Premier throws down the gauntlet with defamation accusation; CBC picks it up
On Wednesday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threw down the gauntlet, accusing the CBC of defamation and demanding that the corporation retract and apologize for its Jan. 19 report someone on…
Danielle Smith comes out swinging; Justin Trudeau responds with the rope-a-dope strategy
Danielle Smith comes out swinging. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Justin Trudeau’s Liberals do the rope-a-dope. Remember, though, in addition to being prime minister, Mr. Trudeau is an…
Danielle Smith’s Magical Email Investigation
So, last week very serious allegations of the Premier's office attempting to intervene in the prosecutions resulting from the Coutts blockade last year. By Saturday, the Premier's office was going…
Danielle Smith accuses CBC of defaming her, her staff, Crown prosecutors, and the whole public service
Premier Danielle Smith published a statement yesterday accusing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and journalists in its employ of publishing “a defamatory article” with the intent “to smear the reputations of…
Public service swiftly checks Premier’s Office emails, unsurprisingly finds nothing
It’s a dirty little secret of Canadian government that plenty of public business is nowadays conducted outside legitimate channels to avoid public accountability. Email, WhatsApp, ProtonMail and Signal are the…
“Too Many Gotchas”
“Nothing to see here, move along.” – Movie trope Last week the CBC published a story saying that a staffer in Danielle Smith’s office sent a series of emails to…
Posted in obvious haste to distract UCP foes and appease party’s base, Manning panel survey asks only 1 question!
Other than geriatric former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, 80, Premier Danielle Smith’s “Public Health Emergencies Governance Review Panel” hasn’t even been appointed, or if it has the public hasn’t…
Will She Leave?
Rumors are circulating about Danielle Smith’s future. David Cleminhaga writes: There’s a whiff of smoke in the air, as if a cow has kicked over a lantern in a stable…
It’s hard to believe Danielle Smith didn’t know her staff was emailing prosecutors about Coutts border blockade charges
How many more clarifications will be required to explain the latest news report about Premier Danielle “Calamity” Smith’s interest in what Alberta’s Crown prosecutors have been working on? Who was…