Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Jim Stanford points out that tariff threats shouldn't be an especially daunting prospect for a Canadian economy which already consists primarily of the production…
Danielle Smith
UPDATED: The Enemy Within
Especially given the Trump-led attacks on our sovereignty, I find my heart is open to almost all of my fellow Canadians. Across the nation, people are banding together with a…
AHS tells court wants to revise filing to fire former CEO for something it didn’t know about when it fired her
The latest twist in the Alberta Government’s legal campaign against former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos’s wrongful dismissal lawsuit is a new court filing that claims the fired executive…
Danielle Smith tries to turn tables on critics with diatribe defending plan to meet far-right Florida bloviator today
Under fierce attack for asking Trump Administration officials pause their tariff war on Canada until a friendlier Conservative government could be elected in Ottawa and anticipating more of the same…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Moira Doneghan discusses what the leaked Signal war crime planning among several top Trump regime officials says about how decisions are being made within…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Steven Greenhouse discusses how Donald Trump's obsession with tariffs is ultimately harmful to everyone affected. But Jonathan Freedland writes that Trump's addiction to…
Did Danielle Smith just admit she was helping the Trump Administration try to influence the Canadian election?
In order to get Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives elected as prime minister and government of Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told an interviewer from pro-MAGA Breitbart News in a…
Smith’s Demands
“She’s playing with fire with a foreign adversary.” Political scientist, Duane Bratt in an interview with Mark Hislop This week Alberta’s premier, Danielle Smith, gave Canadians another reason not to…
Former AHS CEO briskly denies her job performance had anything to do with why she was fired
Former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos has responded to the Alberta Government’s statement of defence in her wrongful dismissal suit with a briskly argued denial that lousy job performance…
Mark Carney comes back to Edmonton, warms up with Oilers, infuriates Danielle Smith
It may just be a political stunt when a prime minister comes to the capital city of Alberta, puts on his skates and a jersey with his own name on…
Amid performative tantrum about ‘federal overreach,’ UCP tries to goad Mark Carney
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is having another tantrum about federal environmental regulatory overreach, mostly imagined, by the former Trudeau Government. Yesterday’s meltdown came in the form of an announcement…
Moribund newspaper chain names former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to its board
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., operator of the flagging chain of English-language Canadian newspapers and clickbait websites, yesterday announced the appointment of former Alberta Conservative premier Jason Kenney to its board…
Crack appears in UCP’s solid front as cabinet member calls for Adriana LaGrange to be sacked as health minister
For the first time since Danielle Smith became premier of Alberta in the fall of 2022, a rift in United Conservative Party cabinet ranks appeared in public view yesterday over…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Anne Applebaum discusses how the actual regime change under Donald Trump involves the replacement of any public service with a system devoted exclusively to…
If the UCP hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal, someone’s going to have to fall on their sword
If Danielle Smith hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal that’s been dogging her since the former CEO of Alberta Health Services challenged the United Conservative Party…
The Captain Goes Down with the Ship
“This isn’t mismanagement—it’s a scandal”—Mike Parker, president of the Health Sciences Association. Calling for an independent investigation into the Alberta Surgical Initiative (a $400 Mill effort to outsource surgeries to…
The Captain Must Go Down with the Ship
“This isn’t mismanagement—it’s a scandal”—Mike Parker, president of the Health Sciences Association, calling for an independent investigation into the Alberta Surgical Initiative (a $400 Mill effort to outsource surgeries to…
In truculent statement, Danielle Smith denies any responsibility for misconduct at Alberta Health Services by government staff
In a truculent and defensive statement in response to this week’s bombshell allegations provincial officials improperly pressured Alberta Health Services to sign bad deals with private contractors, a stormy Danielle…
Danielle Smith declares victory in tariff imbroglio, despite her abject failure to influence Donald Trump
In the face of the abject failure of Danielle Smith’s appeasement tour of Mar-a-Lago and Washington D.C. last month, Alberta’s premier has declared victory with the fatuous claim the Trump…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Paul Krugman discusses how one of the top priorities of the second Donald Trump administration is to trash public health in the U.S. And…