Alberta PoliticsOpinion

Alberta’s growing list of MLA recall petitions is a grassroots phenomenon that’s turning into a grassfire!

Knowing that he’s almost certainly destined for the long jump, metaphorically speaking, it must be mildly satisfying for ...
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Cringe as they may be, don’t assume Canada’s radical far right is going to fail, warns high-profile social media commentator

On her Instagram account, Rachel Gilmore describes herself as “your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist.” ...
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Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did

Albertan country music icon Corb Lund showed up in Edmonton yesterday to drop off a citizen initiative application at the ...
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O Tempora! O Mores! UCP Cabinet minister’s inclusion of a crude epithet in phone call to constituent shocks almost no one

O Tempora! O Mores! In the great scheme of things, the fact a United Conservative Party cabinet minister referred to one of ...
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Alberta moves to make quackery great again while protecting egregiously unprofessional behaviour

Rest assured, Alberta’s Bill 13, the so-called Regulated Professions Neutrality Act, has little to do with protecting freedom ...
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Desperate to hide what they’ve become, UCP goes to court to stop MLAs from calling themselves ‘progressive conservatives’

All the words of our magnificent English language have meanings, and those words and their meanings belong to all of us who ...
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Danielle Smith has a plan: Alberta will destroy health care in order to save it!

Apparently, Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party have decided they’re going to have to destroy health care in ...
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Are Mark Carney and Danielle Smith playing Grey Cup football footsie about that bitumen pipeline scheme?

Is it just me, or are Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney suddenly acting like a couple of ...
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Devin Dreeshen, UCP transportation minister, has a plan to make Alberta’s highways even more dangerous

There’s no question Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen will make Alberta’s highways deadlier with his plan to raise speed ...
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Former UCP MLAs Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair, who now sit as Independents in the Legislature, showing off a PC T-shirt last summer (Photo: Facebook/Peter Guthrie).