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1 day ago · Alberta premier Danielle Smith, defiant and unrepentant, continues to slough off criticism of the report on Alberta’s COVID-19 response produced by her government’s a handpicked panel of vaccine skeptical and conspiracy-theory-influenced contributors.. Red Deer physician and former UCP nomination candidate Gary Davidson, author of the UCP Government’s controversial COVID-19 response ...

6 days ago · Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s refusal to sign the joint statement in which all other provincial and territorial premiers agreed to a co-ordinated response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian exports significantly undermined Canada’s bargaining position, Canada’s former chief trade negotiator says.

Dec 13, 2024 · Dale McFee, chief of the Edmonton Police Service, will soon take over as Alberta’s chief bureaucop – pardon me, bureaucrat – Premier Danielle Smith announced yesterday, surprising absolutely no one. Chief McFee will retire as Edmonton’s chief constable on Feb. 21. He will take over as the Deputy Minister of Executive Council three days later. […]

Jan 4, 2025 · Ms. Notley’s resignation as an MLA took effect on Monday, but even before she’d announced her plan to leave politics on Dec. 12, NDP circles were abuzz with talk of Mr. Nenshi seeking to replace her in the inner-city Edmonton riding.. Mr. Nenshi’s intention was made public in a notice to New Democratic Party members in the riding stating a nomination meeting will be held on Jan. 22 and ...

Dec 9, 2024 · It doesn’t seem like that long ago United Conservative Party cabinet ministers, MLAs and political aides were getting in to all kinds of hot water for their holiday travel. Who can forget Tracy Allard, booted from her job as municipal affairs minister for her mid-pandemic Hawaiian holiday? Or the controversies in 2021 stirred up by […]

Nov 26, 2024 · The Edmonton and Calgary regional metropolitan boards were formally established in 2017.. Former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, who tried to restore some sanity to regional planning in Alberta (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). And it even seemed to be working for a while, even though the Sprawl Cabal – the term is thought to have been coined by former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi – hated it ...

Nov 2, 2024 · A decade ago, a Calgary Sun political columnist described Ms. Smith, then the Wildrose Party leader, choking up about the need for gay-straight alliances. “Wildrose leader Danielle Smith stands in the Legislature Tuesday and talks about meeting kids at gay-straight alliances,” Rick Bell trowelled it on.. “It doesn’t take long for her to choke up as she speaks.”

May 26, 2024 · Does Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver have any idea how many Albertans could be denied the right to vote in the next general election because of the United Conservative Party’s planned changes to provincial voting rules in Bill 20, the Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2024?. A demonstrator at Saturday’s Enough is Enough rally in Edmonton tallies up some of the UCP’s more ...

Oct 30, 2023 · The headline on the government’s news release Friday about the inaugural session of the 31 st Legislature, the first since the May 29 election, says MLAs will reconvene “with legislation geared towards providing financial protection and securing Albertans’ interests.”. Now there’s a heavily coded phrase if ever I heard one that ought to send Halloween chills up and down your spines ...