Alberta, BC, and Ottawa All Walk Into A Bar …
This is mostly going to be me processing yesterday's announcements in Alberta and BC. I haven't quite worked out what I think of it all yet, and maybe by the…
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Channelling Mackenzie King, Mark Carney strikes a pipeline deal with Alberta and British Columbia
Saving Canada and saving the planet? Not necessarily a pipeline, but a pipeline if necessary! Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared last night to have threaded the needle between Alberta and…
Finance Minister Jason Nixon admits Alberta just missed its annual fiscal report deadline, offers two lame excuses
Government news release fails to mention the omission actually breaks the law, but there’s no penalty, so why worry? Happy Canada Day! The summer solstice has already come and gone.…
Smith-Farkas fracas: Calgary mayor spells out the B.S. in stinging riposte to Alberta premier’s pressure campaign
Many have tried to pierce Danielle Smith’s political armour but few have succeeded; Jeromy Farkas may have just put a dent in it Late Monday night, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas…
Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas wins Round One of bitter Twitter window-rattle battle
But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sends letter telling Calgary City Council to roll over or the province will step in It’s not over, but Round One of last weekend’s intergovernmental…
Alberta’s role in Canada – why we need to tell better stories
Federalists need emotional arguments about improving Canada and Alberta Alberta’s separation referendum is only four months away, so longtime Daveberta Podcast contributor Adam Rozenhart joins Dave Cournoyer for part 2…
Podcast: Why Canada needs Alberta and Alberta needs Canada
Part 1 in a Daveberta Podcast series about Alberta, Canada, and the stories we do and don’t tell each other Longtime Daveberta Podcast contributor Adam Rozenhart joins Dave Cournoyer for…
UCP’s ‘independent advisory panel’ on Alberta secession costs is likely to defend Canada on separatist terms
The “independent advisory panel” named yesterday by Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government to look into the “potential economic impacts of secession” illustrates an observation the day before by a prominent…
Voters risk whiplash watching Danielle Smith switch sides back and forth in Alberta separation fight
Watching Danielle Smith switch back and forth from striving to get her party’s large contingent of separatists to settle down to trying to keep to severely normal Albertans who want…
The Smith Referenda In October
Albertans face a daunting prospect on October 19 - not one, but 10 referendum questions that they will vote on. On the agenda are a passel of manufactured issues ranging…
UCP re-announces its ‘patient-focused’ hospital funding scheme – it’s still a bad policy
Nothing much has changed since the last time Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government trotted out its “patient-focused funding” scheme for hospitals. It’s still a bad policy that will force hospitals…
Water Not Coal with Corb Lund
As the Water Not Coal citizen initiative enters its final week, country music singer-songwriter and rancher Corb Lund joined the Daveberta Podcast to explain why it’s important for Albertans to…
Who will be demonized by Conservatives as Alberta’s official Bond villain now that Steven Guilbeault is quitting?
Who will be demonized by Alberta Conservatives as this province’s official Bond villain now that Steven Guilbeault has announced he’s quitting politics? Mr. Guilbeault made his announcement yesterday. It wasn’t…
Prime minister’s Wexit warning prompts western whinging by Calgary Conservative MP with ties to Oklahoma
When Prime Minister Mark Carney called Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s relentless campaign to ensure there’s some form of separation referendum on a provincial ballot next fall “a dangerous bluff” and…
An Exhausting Week In Alberta Politics
This week has been a whirlwind in politics, especially in Alberta. On Thursday, the Premier of Alberta announced what I can only call a farce of a referendum on separating…
Danielle Smith vows to do everything humanly possible to keep Alberta in Canada – over and over and over again
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. In addition to blaming everyone but herself for the national unity crisis she’s been trying for months to foment, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith…
Danielle Smith promotes delusional history of U.S. and Canadian constitutions to promote separation referendum
In Danielle Smith’s Alberta, if the facts don’t support your argument, you can make up new facts. Alberta’s premier demonstrated this capacity yesterday evening in her delusional 15-minute televised address…
UCP plan to railroad a separation referendum onto this fall’s ballot goes off the rails
The United Conservative Party’s effort to railroad a separation referendum onto a ballot this fall and blame it on the people who signed the pro-Canada Forever Canadian petition was unfolding…
Danielle Smith expected to try to force Albertans to endure a separation referendum – and blame someone else for it
Thanks to her sneaky separatist manoeuvring, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to have wedged herself between the proverbial rock and metaphorical hard place. If she doesn’t do what the Alberta…
The Wrath of Jeff: Prominent Alberta separatist advocates internal UCP coup to oust Danielle Smith
Happy Victoria Day! Over the weekend leading up to our national celebration of Victorian rectitude, imperialism and class inequality, prominent Alberta separatist Jeffrey Rath took to the Internet appearing to…