Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Andrew Freedman examines how the summer of 2024 is shaping up to be the hottest on record. And Jessica Corbett discusses the strong public…
Danielle Smith
Breaking UCP promise, Devin Dreeshen pulls plug on $1.5B provincial grant to Calgary Green Line
Let’s try to figure this out: On July 29, Calgary’s $6.3-billion Green Line light rail transit extension project was worthwhile enough for Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen to assure Calgary…
Hope y’all had a great Labour Day/Labor Day, fellow Albertans, while our premier popped up in Texas
While Albertans celebrated the traditional final long weekend of the summer amid unseasonable heat, Premier Danielle Smith popped up in Texas, all but ignoring the occasion. This is pretty much…
Happy Labour Day
Yesterday Premier Danielle Smith issued a statement celebrating Alberta Day—a non-stat holiday created by her predecessor Jason Kenney to commemorate the day Alberta became a province—without once mentioning Confederation. Today…
Happy Alberta Day
I just finished reading Premier Smith’s statement celebrating Alberta Day and wondered how I would explain it to someone who knows nothing about Alberta’s history. I suspect the conversation would…
Nenshi Visits Calgary-Elbow
Naheed Nenshi has been busy visiting NDP constituencies across the province. This afternoon he came to the Calgary-Elbow Constituency BBQ. After a (very) enthusiastic introduction from NDP MLA Samir Kayande,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ayesha Tandon discusses a new study showing that the limiting factor in averting a climate breakdown is public policy rather than technological limitations. Aaron…
Alberta Health Services letters tell COVID-19 long-haulers specialized long-COVID clinics are being shut down
It’s not hard to connect the dots between the anti-vaccine extremists including Premier Danielle Smith who now dominate Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the admission by a beleaguered Alberta Health…
Did an anti-vaxx MLA just suggest the UCP is about to ban COVID-19 vaccines? Or what?
A video clip of Calgary-Lougheed MLA Eric Bouchard musing about the future of COVID-19 vaccinations on an anti-vaxx video podcast stirred up a storm on social media yesterday among commenters…
Honey! I shrunk the party! UCP membership shrivels as Danielle Smith moves farther into loony MAGA territory
Honey! I shrunk the party! Sharp-eyed denizens of the Twittersphere yesterday noticed a United Conservative party update that, presumably inadvertently, gave away a dramatic drop in party membership since the…
May I Make a Suggestion?
Where’s our news? I ask because I’ve noticed that the UCP is adept at flooding the media with good news stories about what they’re going to do to help Albertans…
No shock: UCP freeze on renewable electricity generation projects and resulting uncertainty lead to deep chill on investments
It should come as no shock on the first anniversary of the United Conservative Party Government’s seven-month freeze on the development of renewable electricity projects that the policy has resulted…
Danielle Smith tells Calgary UCP ‘town hall’ that 94% of Alberta parents are not having their kids vaccinated against COVID
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, only a small minority of Alberta parents are now agreeing to have their children vaccinated against COVID-19, while the vast majority are not. This…
Danielle Smith touts letting loggers cut trees and ranchers graze cattle to help manage fire threat in national parks
Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith escalated her criticism of Parks Canada’s approach to fire management in Jasper National Park yesterday, suggesting…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jonathan Watts discusses the strong argument to treat climate hypocrites primarily as destructive petrostates rather than honest actors in trying to address the…
Now that we know about those skybox tickets for UCP insiders, did anyone provide free corporate flights to out-of-province NHL playoff games?
Did UCP ministers or political staffers avail themselves of free flights to B.C. or Florida? If so, who paid?
Danielle Smith, the Sky Palace, and those Skybox freebies: What a difference a decade makes!
Alberta’s premier on the Sky Palace in 2014: ‘Duplicitous, entitled, completely out of touch’; on her Skybox tickets in 2024: ‘All the rules have been followed.’
Bombs away? UCP, apparently panicking, fires broadside at NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi, misses
Panic, dear readers, is not a strategy; it’s not a very good tactic either.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Bill Henderson writes that the immense temperature increases we've already seen - and the resulting spread of extreme weather events and other catastrophic…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Bill Henderson writes that the immense temperature increases we've already seen - and the resulting spread of extreme weather events and other catastrophic…