To argue for her demand that Alberta get more control over judge appointments, Danielle Smith has been repeating a lie.
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To argue for her demand that Alberta get more control over judge appointments, Danielle Smith has been repeating a lie.
Calgary city council signals it may revoke the downtown free fare zone.
Tomorrow evening in Edmonton, the Candian Pension Plan (CPP) admin is holding a public information and consultation event at the EXPO Centre. Civil society and labour groups including Public Interest Alberta and the AFL are encouraging members to attend this. www.cppinvestments.com/public-meeti...
A poster: Common Horizon hosts Clean Up Your MAS* Write-A-Thon. Workshop on how to contact your officials and letter writing session. February 25, 7-9 PM, 33 Acres Brewery. All supplies provided.
In Calgary tomorrow evening, Common Horizon is hosting a workshop and letter-writing session for people concerned with the Alberta government's Mature Asset Strategy, a policy that would dump responsibility for cleaning up polluted oil well sites onto the public.
Is the MOU between Smith's government and Carney's actually going to get hammered out in time? Both sides are signaling that they anticipate not getting things done by the deadline.
Alberta has a serious disinformation problem, its government weaponizing “experts” willing to cash in credentials for power.
Last year, that tactic — and those people — were leveraged to help close supervised consumption sites across Ontario.
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We asked eight LGBTQ2S+ community leaders and advocates across Alberta to share their top resources for trans youth in the province.
This is what they said:
The data centre will consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta...
A week before releasing a budget expected to have a great big hole in it thanks to dropping oil prices, Danielle Smith says Alberta has to talk about immigration.
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Premier Danielle Smith said she doesn't know how much newcomers cost Alberta’s health care and education systems, despite scheduling a referendum to ask whether social services to those residents shd be limited b/c of cost
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U of A president Bill Flanagan placed between the far-right anti-woke UCP and federal EDI requirements for funding.
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Don's analysis here is backwards. the separation and immigration+sovereignty referendums aren't in conflict, they're synergistic. expect huge cross-pollination between the organizers of both efforts. and if they both end up on the same ballot, each referendum will help draw in voters for the other.
The political discourse in Alberta may soon be the foulest it's been in years, as the UCP and its allies gear up for a newly-announced referendum campaign against immigrants.
An arbitrator has ruled against the AFL in a dispute between the fed, Unifor 445 (which represents AFL staff), and UFCW 401, finding that the AFL violated the Union Security Clause of their collective bargaining agreement by bringing in an outside worker who wasn't represented by their union.
The white nationalist dog whistle is so obvious. So enraging. And so predictable from this new MAGA brand of Canadian conservativism.
It was only a matter of time before poor budgeting choices and corruption while systematically denying the realities of the economy caused the ruling party of [insert country/state/province here] to place the blame on foreigners.
The big pitch in Danielle Smith's anti-immigration address to the public tonight: yet another referendum, this time on the question of immigration, to be held on October 19.
The 'Turkish Tylenol' debacle reaches its expected end.
Alberta paid $70m to Sam Mraiche's MH Care Medical to import this medicine from Turkey, at a drastically inflated price, as a stunt to outdo the feds during a supply shortage. By the time any of it arrived, the shortage was already over.
Dr. Wesley's prediction likely to be correct; the UCP government and their alt right media auxiliaries have been beating the anti-immigration drum pretty hard for at least a few months now. Not just as an appeal to the fringe, but also as an excuse for lack of progress on health and housing.
A twitter post by Bruce McAllister, referencing a post about immigration statistics from David Coletto. " @McAllisterBruce The people orchestrating this reckless, unsustainable mass immigration into Canada fill me with profound disgust. To deliberately engineer and champion such explosive, unmanageable population growth in your own nation? That's the height of civic irresponsibility. Was it fueled by greed? Did they line their pockets while irrevocably straining our healthcare, education, and social safety nets? Or does their contempt for Canada's core values and traditions drive them to flood our borders with millions from societies not built on the same foundations that have made us thrive? Why import from nations with failed systems when our Judeo-Christian heritage and principles have worked so well here? It almost feels like these elites are ashamed of what built this great country. This is a stark reminder of why Albertans, and indeed countless Canadians, harbor deep mistrust toward the Laurentian elite in Ottawa. They seem all too eager to prioritize their agendas over the well-being of the True North strong and free."
Commenting on Canada's latest federal immigration numbers, executive director in the Premier's office Bruce McAllister gets real blood-and-soil with it.
"Why import from nations with failed systems when our Judeo-Christian heritage has worked so well here?"
Where are the triage liaison physicians the government announced would help overtaxed ERs starting Feb. 1? The AB govt and health authorities won’t say if any are working. I asked 7 times in two weeks.
#AbLeg #AbHealth
🧵In this new op-ed in the Edmonton Journal, @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I debunk the myth that EDI hiring and “reverse discrimination” happened at University of Alberta.
In actuality, the U of A has not made any advancement in EDI hiring.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has mused about cutting or limiting public services for temporary residents. It turns out that already happened last month with public health insurance www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbHealth
Alberta MP and NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson is calling on the feds to shut down the five ICE offices located in Canada. One of those offices is here in Calgary.
So Smith claims Alberta has “distinct legal traditions” as the basis of her threat to withhold $$ for new judicial appointments without more say. It increasingly feels like the distinct legal tradition here is absence of the rule of law, though that is pretty new.
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"The coal industry hired at least 14 government insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes, records show."
In case you missed it—the AFL has a podcast now, featuring president Gil McGowan and published under Ryan Jespersen's "Real Talk" brand.
An Alberta county is apparently violating the Recall Act in order to assist the separatist petition and no, which county it is will absolutely not surprise you.
