Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Zaina Hamza discusses new research showing how COVID-19 fatalities hit younger people and caused more loss of expected years of life in the…
Danielle Smith
Premier Smith to nurses and doctors: Forget about measures to mitigate respiratory disease spread, the UCP is for ‘choice’
On Tuesday, both the United Nurses of Alberta and the Alberta Medical Association’s Section of Emergency Medicine sent letters to Chief Medical Officer of Health Mark Joffe urging him to…
Danielle Smith runs the idea of an Alberta pension plan referendum in May up the flagpole – then yanks it halfway down again
From time to time, Calgary Herald columnist Rick Bell has been used by Alberta Conservatives to float their trial balloons. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). So when Mr.…
Tracy Allard, pushed from cabinet in 2021 for a Hawaiian pandemic holiday, welcomed back as ‘parliamentary secretary for civil liberties’
When then municipal affairs minister Tracy Allard was busted by media when she returned from a mid-pandemic Hawaiian vacation at the end 2020, it was billed the first United Conservative…
In only 64 days, Danielle Smith blew the relationship Jason Kenney strove to build with Alberta First Nations to smithereens
Say what you will about Jason Kenney and his ideas, he made progress on persuading First Nations communities to buy into his vision of Alberta’s future. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith…
Alberta: Doing everything in its power to protect ‘law abiding’ gun owners from having to obey the law!
Welcome to Alberta where you can now be a law-abiding citizen while defying the law! Says who? Says Tyler Shandro, minister of justice, who announced yesterday that the province will…
‘Premier Smith does not understand our Treaty or our inherent rights nor does she respect them’ – Treaty 6 chiefs
The chiefs of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations emerged from their first meeting with Danielle Smith yesterday clearly unimpressed with the Alberta premier’s glib patter about the significance…
This is the last straw! Danielle Smith lays down a red line Ottawa must not cross: mushy paper straws!
On Saturday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith laid down a red line that Ottawa must not cross. You’d better be paying attention, Justin Trudeau! Don’t worry, paper straw haters, says Premier…
Limiting debate, UCP rams through ‘Sovereignty Act in the wee hours of yesterday morning
Danielle Smith’s obedient United Conservative Party Caucus rammed through the premier’s so-called Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act in the wee hours of yesterday morning. Opposition Leader Rachel Notley…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Beth Gardiner discusses how the oil industry has long understood how much fossil fuels would damage the Earth’s climate (even while fighting tooth…
Danielle Smith’s Bill 1: The Wrecking Ball Effect
Wrecking ball: A heavy steel ball hung from a crane, used to demolish large buildings. Commonly used during the 1950s and 1960s. Considered one of the most common forms of…
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The OECD issues a report on the importance of avoiding climate tipping points – and the reality that we’re on pace to…
Opposition NDP won’t allow itself to get sucked into the UCP’s desperate effort to fix the unfixable ASWAUCA
Alberta’s New Democratic Party has refused to allow itself to get sucked into the vortex Government’s effort to fix its unfixable Sovereignty Act. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr).…
The Alberta Sovereignty Act: A Pas a Deux With Danielle Smith and Stephen Harper
I’m not going to use the full title of that act – partly because it’s ridiculously long, and like many things out of the UCP, utterly devoid of real meaning.…
ASWAUCA – the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act – is turning into a disaster for Danielle Smith and the UCP
With the thoughts that you’ll be thinkin’You could be another Lincolnif you only had a brain.— Scarecrow, The Wizard of Oz OTTAWA Could Danielle Smith have handled introduction of her…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rong-Gong Lin Il and Luke Money report on CDC findings showing that U.S. infants under 6 months had hospitalization rates as high…
The Alberta Sovereignty Act – First Thoughts
Yesterday, Danielle Smith tabled the “Alberta Sovereignty Act”. I haven’t read through it all yet, but like the rest of you, I’ve seen the commentary in the news, and to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Greg Iacurci discusses how long COVID is set to cause trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S.’ economy (to say nothing of…