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1 day ago · In the face of the abject failure of Danielle Smith’s appeasement tour of Mar-a-Lago and Washington D.C. last month, Alberta’s premier has declared victory with the fatuous claim the Trump Tariffs imposed on Canadian oil and gas are only 10 per cent thanks to her. “We note the reduced 10 per cent tariff for Canadian […]

Dec 30, 2024 · As for grain farmers, they’ve got their worries, but the United States isn’t a big enough market for Canadian grain for Mr. Trump’s promised tariffs to wreak havoc. According to the Canadian Grain Commission, in 2023-24, Canada exported more than 43 million metric tonnes of all kinds of grain, but less than three million …

3 days ago · Alberta premier Danielle Smith, defiant and unrepentant, continues to slough off criticism of the report on Alberta’s COVID-19 response produced by her government’s a handpicked panel of vaccine skeptical and conspiracy-theory-influenced contributors.

Nov 26, 2024 · The Edmonton and Calgary regional metropolitan boards were formally established in 2017.. Former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, who tried to restore some sanity to regional planning in Alberta (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). And it even seemed to be working for a while, even though the Sprawl Cabal – the term is thought to have been coined by former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi – hated it ...

Apr 29, 2024 · In the words of a Global News report at the time, the inquiry “found the council was not following laws, had bad spending practises and biased decision making.”. Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). More recently, late last year, the UCP Government fired the mayor, three councillors, and some city officials in Chestermere, a community of 22,000 ...

Aug 13, 2024 · Alberta New Democrats, even many long-time party supporters who knew and respected candidates with a track record inside the party like former health minister Sarah Hoffman and former justice minister Kathleen Ganley, were relieved NDP members had chosen a leader who they expected would aggressively promote an alternative to the Smith Government’s determination to dismantle pubic health care ...

May 18, 2023 · Well, at least it would be a political crisis, not a constitutional one, which would relieve the rest of the country of having to pay much attention to our lingering misery.. Let me explain: Two new polls released yesterday – one by Ipsos and the other by Angus Reid Institute – show almost exactly the same thing with slightly different numbers.

Oct 30, 2023 · The headline on the government’s news release Friday about the inaugural session of the 31 st Legislature, the first since the May 29 election, says MLAs will reconvene “with legislation geared towards providing financial protection and securing Albertans’ interests.”. Now there’s a heavily coded phrase if ever I heard one that ought to send Halloween chills up and down your spines ...

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 ...