Alberta Politics12h
The Alberta Bill of Rights Amendment Act, 2024, otherwise known as Bill 1, is a fundamentally unserious document
Now that we have before us an actual copy of the United Conservative Party’s first bill of the fall 2024 sitting of the ...
Alberta Politics1d
Guest post: Alberta’s UCP government is poised to let foundering elk farms be turned into ‘hunt preserves’
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any goofier, it looks like Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to ...
Alberta Politics2d
Danielle Smith’s government doubles down on its War on Trans Kids, performative new ‘rights,’ to woo far-right UCP base
According to some wag on the Internet, Blaine Higgs has changed his pronouns. They’re now Has/Been.  I don’t know enough ...
Alberta Politics5d
‘Temporarily’ banned from striking, CUPE education workers skip work anyway and join thousands at Edmonton labour protest
Supposedly only temporarily banned from starting their legal strike by Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, ...
Alberta Politics9d
No party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like the NDP, and none does it with the flair they do in B.C.
No political party can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the NDP! And, as we watched in horror Saturday night, no ...
Alberta Politics7d
Acting like an Opposition politician, Danielle Smith fruitlessly needles NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi
Premier Smith says she’s waiting on Nenshi to call Lethbridge-West by-election,” said the headline yesterday on the ...
Alberta Politics11d
Grant Notley left a greater mark on Alberta than his position as leader and sole MLA of a small party would suggest
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death in an airplane crash of Grant Notley, a man who left a greater mark on Alberta ...
Alberta Politics12d
Calgary Cancer Centre to open on Oct. 28; Alberta premier promises miraculous ‘future without cancer’
There were seven uninformative canned quotes in the Alberta Government’s news release yesterday announcing the imminent ...
Alberta Politics14d
Everybody understands the point of the UCP’s ‘Scrap the Cap’ ads is to use taxpayer money to campaign against the Liberals
The four Horsemen of the UCP Apocalypse, from left to right, Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf, Premier Danielle Smith, Energy Minister Brian Jean, and Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz, announce ...