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CALGARY – In what had to be a humiliating climbdown, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen issued a joint statement this morning with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek explaining that the Green Line LRT project is back on again, sort of. On Sept. 2, the feckless thirtysomething MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake wrote a rude letter to Mayor….
Grant Notley left a greater mark on Alberta than his position as …
2 days ago · The Canadian Encyclopedia quotes his friend Howard Leeson, author of Grant Notley: The Social Conscience of Alberta, describing the young MLA.“Throughout Grant’s career there is a consistency, a devotion to the rights of the underprivileged, the disadvantaged, the ‘little guy’ in society, that cannot be completely explained by electoral opportunism.”
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 […]
Everybody understands the point of the UCP’s ‘Scrap the Cap’ ads …
5 days ago · Mr. Neudorf, of course, is the minister responsible for last year’s seven-month ban on new renewable energy projects and the UCP’s continuing effort to smother renewable projects in Alberta, which drew a sharp response from the federal government yesterday.. Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange at her separate news conference yesterday (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr).
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Oct 13, 2024 · Alberta still won’t join the federal pharmacare program. Never mind Health Minister Adriana LaGrange’s explanation in her press release Friday – “the federal government has yet to share its vision for the future of national pharmacare,” yadda, yadda. That’s just a way to stall things until Pierre Poilievre can get himself elected ...
‘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 ...
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 …
Despite UCP efforts to tilt the playing field, progressive mayors are ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Despite the best efforts of Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government to tilt the playing field steeply in favour right-wing candidates, voters in both Calgary and Edmonton elected progressive mayors yesterday. Amarjeet Sohi, a soft-spoken former bus driver and trade unionist who was once a political prisoner in India and served as a minister in Justin […]
Alison Redford, chosen to lead Alberta’s Conservatives a decade …
Oct 3, 2021 · Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith, during her campaign to lead the party in 2009 (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). For her part, Ms. Redford could thank good luck, a good resume, good management by her campaign team, and the fact that, sometimes, the stars and planets all just line up the right way to turn a long – shot campaign into a victory run.. I thanked my lucky stars I’d had the good ...
Buoyed by overwhelming leadership approval vote ... - Alberta Politics
Jun 7, 2021 · Acting like someone with a serious chance of returning to the Premier’s Office in 2023, Alberta New Democratic Party Leader Rachel Notley received a 98.2-per-cent approval vote in the Opposition party’s leadership review Sunday. The former Alberta premier set out a hopeful vision of how her next government would “transform Alberta …