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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 ...
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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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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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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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Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition

Combined with ongoing UCP electoral jiggery-pokery, this is turning into a genuine crisis of democratic legitimacy Public ...
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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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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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Finance Minister Jason Nixon admits Alberta just missed its annual fiscal report deadline, offers two lame excuses

Dr. Paul Parks, former president of the Alberta Medical Association, is a strong critic of UCP health policies (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). The summer solstice has already come and gone. So has the ...
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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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Bildtermin bei der Begrüßung des Premierministers von Kanada

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, urged by market fundamentalist think tanks to keep his hands off Alberta legislation intended to undermine public health care (Photo: Dr. Frank Gaeth/Creative ...
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Danielle Smith and Doug Ford, each facing criticism at home, announce performative pre-election pipeline pact

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford at their Calgary news conference yesterday (Photo: Screenshot of Alberta Government video). A northern route to Sarnia for Alberta heavy ...