Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bryan Bushard reports on research showing how football games served as COVID-19 superspreaders even when less transmissible versions were circulating in 2020. And…
Danielle Smith
Some Of The Inmates
Danielle Smith has fired Alberta’s chief public health officer. Graham Smith writes that Canadians should pay attention to what Smith is doing: If you can’t wait until the next movie…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plans for health care? Brace yourself for user fees, co-pays, privatization and sly de-listing
Answers to the major problems confronting Alberta’s health care system, Daniele Smith said in a paper published under her name last year, are found in user fees, co-pays, privatization, and…
UCP fires AHS board, names sole administrator, promises big changes fast: No such thing will happen
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered on her long-promised shakeup of Alberta Health Services yesterday, firing the 11 members of the province-wide agency’s Conservative-appointed board and naming John Cowell as its…
Dr. Deena Hinshaw is out – did the UCP appoint the Dr. Joffe the premier wanted to replace the chief medical officer of health?
As long threatened, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government yesterday announced the end of Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s tenure as the province’s chief medical officer of health through the…
It was the spring of crypto-hope, now it’s the winter of crypto-despair … Calgary’s promised crypto-boom is off, eh?
It’s always the best of times in Alberta; it’s always the worst of times. Readers may recall how Jason Kenney’s Best Summer Ever was followed by the worst winter ever.…
The Reign of Misinformation
The last six months have been hell and the next six months will be worse. By election day, May 29, 2023, we’ll have transitioned from Jason Kenney, the politician who…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Manina Etter et al. study the causes of neurological damages arising out of COVID-19. And Roni Caryn Rabin reports on the recent…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tori Cowger et al. study how the presence or absence of mandatory masking policies affects the number of COVID-19 cases among students…
Cometh the hour, cometh the mandate letter: Premier Smith turns to the important task of looking busy
Cometh the hour, cometh the mandate letter. Education Minister Adriana LaGrange (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Premier Danielle Smith, having won a seat in the Legislature Wednesday night, immediately turned to the…
New cracks appear in UCP façade as party officials disallow anti-vaxx nomination candidate in premier’s home riding
If Alberta’s United Conservative Party were the “centre right” political party its leader Danielle Smith would like us to imagine it is, the disqualification of Nadine Wellwood as a candidate…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Keenan Sorokan reports on the unprecedented number of students out sick from school in the Saskatoon area, while Karen Bartko reports on…
Danielle Smith, it would seem, wants to Alberta hear from prominent anti-vaxxers – and maybe take their advice
Is Premier Danielle Smith really expecting Paul Alexander, briefly in 2020 a Trump Administration science advisor who urged the then U.S. president let millions of Americans be infected with COVID-19…
As by-election test nears for UCP Premier Danielle Smith, new poll shows NDP in majority territory
“We are going to beat the NDP in rural Alberta, we are going to beat the NDP in Edmonton, and we are going to beat the NDP in Calgary,” shouts…
Manitoba’s Stefanson to Alberta’s Smith: Drop dead!
When Manitoba Conservative Premier Heather Stefanson blew off Alberta Conservative Premier Danielle Smith’s call yesterday to ship Alberta oil through the Hudson Bay port of Churchill, Wild Rose Country’s most…
When the UCP Government Ran Amok
“There is no room for the unilateral assumption of authority in a constitutional democracy.” – Nigel Bankes, U of C emeritus professor of law, on the government’s decision to rescind…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ewen Callaway discusses the COVID-19 “variant soup” which we’ll be drowning in this winter due to the deliberate elimination of any public…
Danielle Smith vows not to let school districts impose mask mandates to protect students and teachers
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith vowed Saturday to take measures to ensure masking mandates for children in Alberta’s kindergarten-to-Grade-12 classes can no longer be imposed. Justice Grant Dunlop of the Alberta…
Signals unintelligence: Danielle Smith’s latest fumbles suggest her government struggles with ineptitude
It’s hardly reassuring to learn Alberta’s new Danielle Smith Government is apparently so inept it didn’t know that it needed a minister to oversee the administration of the province’s labour…