Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump's absolute lack of inhibition is responsible for the disastrous effects of his regime - and how a…
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Jason Kenney, Alberta’s first UCP premier, warns that its second one could kill investment with her separation talk
Let it be acknowledged that while Jason Kenney’s assessment of the danger posed by the United Conservative Party’s continued flirtation with separatism is spot on, it was he, Alberta’s first…
Danielle Smith and the Alberta Prosperity Project: Who’s pulling whose strings?
So, is Danielle Smith pulling the Alberta Prosperity Project’s strings, or are the pushers of the prosperity project pulling the premier’s? Yesterday, a separatist sub-faction of the Alberta conservative movement’s…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon discusses the problem with the concentration of power in the hands of a few tycoons who see no purpose for most human…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- David Suzuki and Ian Hanington write about the importance of a courageous approach to climate change policy, while Nature's editorial board discusses the desperate…
Danielle Smith proposes a new theory of why Alberta needs a separation referendum
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s only enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country to keep a separatist party…
Danielle Smith explains why, as a strong believer in Canada, she’ll do whatever she can to help Alberta’s separatists
RED DEER – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called a news conference yesterday to tell the impertinent journalists who showed up why, as a strong believer in Canadian Confederation, she intends…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Roge Karma discusses how Donald Trump's tariff chaos is threatening to reinstate a consensus against any strategic decisions around trade. And Garrett Evans highlights…
Danielle Smith tries in ‘Alberta Next’ video address to bluff her way out of a bad hand she dealt herself
After dealing herself a weak hand by making assumptions that turned out to be disastrously wrong, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sat down for her weirdly timed mid-afternoon video address to…
Naheed Nenshi, relaxed and confident, rips into Danielle Smith’s flirtation with Alberta separatism
Looking relaxed and confident, Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi ripped into Premier Danielle Smith’s flirtation with separatism yesterday at the Opposition party’s annual convention. “Alberta’s New Democrats will always, always,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Rhiana Gunn-Wright and Olufemi Taiwo discuss the importance of making the climate movement one that engages our shared humanity. But as a reminder of…
Danielle Smith tries to turn up the heat on Ottawa while MAGA Canada suffers mass psychotic breakdown on X
Unsure whom to blame for Monday’s federal election loss by Pierre Poilievre and his Trumpified Conservative Party of Canada, the online Canadian MAGAsphere seemed headed for a full meltdown, klaxons…
What does Mark Carney’s win and Pierre Poilievre’s loss mean for Alberta?
Danielle Smith’s sovereignty agenda gives the Liberals a generational opportunity to reset with Albertans https://daveberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/podcast/Daveberta-ep-99-preview.mp3 New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available exclusi...
Danielle Smith: The people have spoken and I refuse to acknowledge what they said!
In a spasm of Trump-like rancour in the wake of the Liberal victory in Monday’s federal election, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doubled down yesterday on her pre-election threats to national…
With the federal election tomorrow, don’t expect Danielle Smith to surface today
With the federal election tomorrow – either nail-bitingly close, or not, depending on which pollster’s analysis you’ve just finished reading – what do you want to bet Alberta Premier Danielle…
Peter Guthrie, booted from UCP Caucus, assails Premier Danielle Smith in open letter, vows to hold government to account
Peter Guthrie, the former United Conservative Party cabinet minister now sitting as an independent member of the Alberta Legislature, fired back at Premier Danielle Smith yesterday in an open letter…
Danielle Smith skips out on Corrupt Care questions, skedaddles off to Japan and Korea
Alberta’s United Conservative Party must really fear the potential impact of the Corrupt Care Scandal, as the NDP Opposition has dubbed the continuing brouhaha about dodgy contracts pushed on Alberta…
Peter Guthrie, former Alberta infrastructure minister booted from UCP Caucus, says health minister ‘deliberately misled’ cabinet
On Monday, Alberta’s former infrastructure minister complained that his 30-day suspension from the United Conservative Party Caucus in the Legislature with its accompanying gag order had lasted 48 days. Yesterday,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor write about the rise of end-times fascism - and its connection to the long-standing project among the wealthiest few…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- The Guardian weighs in the folly of the U.S.' self-removal from the global trade system, while Paul Krugman writes that there's no method to…