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Guest Post by Lorne Fitch: The latest Grassy Mountain mine proposal is the same old promotional hype

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government persists with its wildly unpopular campaign to allow ...
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With UCP separatists in the driver’s seat, Alberta’s likely to face the biggest disinformation campaign since Brexit

Jeffrey Rath, the caricature of an Alberta separatist who happens to be Alberta’s best-known separatist at the moment, isn’t ...
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Finally, a forceful response to the UCP’s policy hot mess by the NDP’s Naheed Nenshi

Better late than never, Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi finally effectively hammered the governing United Conservative ...
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Important notice to readers: Be strong! You may not be able to comment for a spell this weekend

You may not be able to comment on AlbertaPolitics.ca posts this weekend. If you encounter that difficulty, it’s not you, and ...
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Danielle Smith among the targets of the latest recall petitions approved by Elections Alberta yesterday

And then there were 21! Twenty-one petitions acceptable to Elections Alberta to recall members of the Alberta Legislative ...
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Devin Dreeshen, UCP transportation minister, has a plan to make Alberta’s highways even more dangerous

Devin Dreeshen, all togged out in a cute no-cash-cow apron, first announcing his plan to eliminate photo radar back in December 2024 (Photo: Alberta Government/Flickr). There’s no question ...
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Two cheers for Don Getty, who gave Alberta the Family Day long weekend in February

Mr. Getty on the gridiron with the Edmonton Elks, then known by another name (Photo: Found on Pinterest). The winters around here are long. T.S. Eliot may have reckoned April was the cruellest month, ...
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Firing of AIMCo CEO and entire board another sign UCP is determined to control everything, everywhere, all at once

Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner is now the boss of $169 billion in pension funds (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). With its surprise decision to cashier the entire board and the top executive of ...
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Promise made, promise kept: Thanks to the UCP, Alberta workers now face a significant ‘Alberta Disadvantage’

Jason Kenney, Alberta’s first United Conservative Party Premier, who deserves the credit for implementing Alberta’s wage-suppression policy, including its economically destructive and morally bankrupt ...
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If Danielle Smith intends to defy a national consensus on how to respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs, she should call an election

Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau behaving like grownups in Ottawa yesterday (Photo: Screenshot of CPAC video). If Alberta Premier Danielle Smith intends ...
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UCP says it will pay parents $30 a day to do teachers’ jobs from home, sort of, during a strike

A grim-faced Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, flanked by her grim-faced ministers of finance and education, Nate Horner and Demetrios Nicolaides, explains her government’s scheme to pay parents to ...
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UCP’s legislation sets stage for municipal political parties, arbitrary nullification of bylaws, and firing of councillors by cabinet

Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver during yesterday’s news conference on Bill 20, which will introduce big city political parties and bring back corporate funding of municipal candidates ...