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Was the separation petition ‘too big to rig’? Elections Alberta thinks so – many Albertans will not be so sure

Too big to rig,” proclaimed yesterday’s Canadian Press headline, carrying more than a little water for Jeffrey Rath, house ...
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Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade

Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer in the 2028-2029 fiscal year will likely result cuts of more than $50 billion for health care in Canada’s provinces and territories over the ...
Alberta Politics

UCP apologists clutch their pearls about premier’s ‘fascist pancakes’

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith concentrates on flipping a pancake at the Premier’s K-Days Breakfast last Thursday as Environment Minister Grant Hunter entertains himself nearby – but are they serving ...
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Samir Kayande, the NDP MLA for Calgary-Elbow (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Full size 250 × 373 Published inDanielle Smith to Calgary-Shaw voters: Forget about a by-election any time soon ...
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Danielle Smith to Calgary-Shaw voters: Forget about a by-election any time soon

Alberta premier explains it’s the middle of summer and you don’t have time for politics … seriously! Danielle Smith says ...
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Obviously impressed by the nice reception the NDP gave him, Sen. Lindsay Graham said Donald Trump made him ‘want to move to Canada’

In 2015, the Wildrose Party was outraged the NDP didn’t meet the late U.S. Senator at the airport with a brass band and a ...
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UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a news conference last May, as she pushed her idea for a series of murkily worded, often deceptive “referendum” questions designed to advance a grab-bag of policy ...
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Right-wing think tankers urge PM Mark Carney to leave Alberta alone to undermine public health care

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, seen here with Hospitals and Surgical Services Minister Adriana LaGrange, at a news conference about her plan to privatize more surgeries (Photo: Alberta ...
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Bold move or big mistake? Naheed Nenshi implores Ottawa to step in and force Alberta to drop surgery line-jumping scheme

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi during his news conference yesterday about the UCP’s ‘dual practice’ scheme for surgeons (Photo: Screenshot of NDP video). Send ‘a strong signal that Canada works’ NDP ...
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Four NDP MLAs, three of them cabinet veterans, announce plans to retire after next election

Joe Ceci, then the MLA for Calgary-Fort, greets well-wishers on the Alberta Legislature grounds in Edmonton on May 24, 2015, the day he was sworn in as finance minister (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).
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UCP’s ‘independent advisory panel’ on Alberta secession costs is likely to defend Canada on separatist terms

Jack Mintz, the UCP’s favourite economist since the days of Jason Kenney, has been chosen to lead a panel on the economic costs of separation (Photo: McGill University). The “independent advisory ...
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Polls last week suggest ‘low and declining appetite for separation in Alberta’

Water under the bridge? It’s too soon to say. There’s still plenty to worry about in the UCP’s separation referendum scheme, whatever side of the issue the premier says she’s on this week (Photo: ...