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Prime minister announces two Alberta Senate appointments; UCP …
Aug 31, 2024 · Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced two long-anticipated Alberta appointments to the Senate of Canada this morning. Kristopher Wells of St. Albert is a post-secondary educator and champion of Alberta’s 2SLGBTQI+ community; Daryl Fridhandler is Calgary lawyer with longstanding ties to the Liberal Party of Canada. The PM’s news release didn’t provide a lot of information […]
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3 days ago · There were seven uninformative canned quotes in the Alberta Government’s news release yesterday announcing the imminent opening of the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Calgary on Oct. 28, an unusual number by any reckoning.
Jeremy Nixon, former UCP cabinet minister, loses Calgary Signal …
Jun 25, 2024 · Between Naheed Nenshi’s stunning victory over his challengers to lead the Alberta NDP and the Oilers’ heartrending loss last night that had even the skies over Edmonton weeping this morning, an interesting little yarn about how all politics is local has barely managed to get on Alberta’s political radar.. David McKenzie, winner of the federal Conservative nomination in the Calgary Signal ...
‘Not one shred of evidence’ bill’s arbitrary measures are needed; …
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 ...
Two new polls Wednesday say UCP and NDP are close to …
May 18, 2023 · Well, at least it would be a political crisis, not a constitutional one, which would relieve the rest of the country of having to pay much attention to our lingering misery.. Let me explain: Two new polls released yesterday – one by Ipsos and the other by Angus Reid Institute – show almost exactly the same thing with slightly different numbers.
Limiting debate, UCP rams through ‘Sovereignty Act in the wee …
Dec 9, 2022 · The government’s use of time limits on debate was no surprise. The Sovereignty Act – no matter what it ended up saying – is a key part of the Smith Government’s re-election strategy.. Premier Smith will be anxious to start using it to pick fights with Ottawa and paint the NDP Opposition as anti-Alberta for voting against what …
Alberta premier unseen since Aug. 9 as COVID counts rise; …
Aug 25, 2021 · With COVID-19 case counts in Alberta marching higher by the day, now closing in on 8,000 active cases, the chorus of grumbles about what’s become of Premier Jason Kenney is increasing in volume. Mr. Kenney was last seen on Aug. 9 at a press conference called to announce expansion of an Edmonton brewery that promised […]
Budget 2023: Smoke, mirrors, sleight of hand, and promises that …
Mar 1, 2023 · We live in a democracy, after all, and sooner or later all governments must try to get re-elected. But when the budget’s a few weeks ahead of a provincial election, 90 days in the case of the Alberta Budget Speech read by Mr. Toews yesterday, they come with a …
Alberta’s Legislature shudders back to life this afternoon – what …
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 ...