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1 day ago · Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Government dismissed the entire Alberta Health Services Board yesterday – the second time in two years the UCP brain trust has dumped the health care agency’s board of directors en masse!. Andre Tremblay, the new AHS “official administrator,” is also deputy minister of health (Photo: LinkedIn).

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.

Dec 9, 2024 · It doesn’t seem like that long ago United Conservative Party cabinet ministers, MLAs and political aides were getting in to all kinds of hot water for their holiday travel. Who can forget Tracy Allard, booted from her job as municipal affairs minister for her mid-pandemic Hawaiian holiday? Or the controversies in 2021 stirred up by […]

4 days ago · As far as wages go, Alberta workers now face a significant “Alberta Disadvantage,” says a report published yesterday on the continuing suppression of wages and salaries in the Western Canadian province. Not long ago the highest-wage province in Canada, with wages 17 per cent above the national average, payroll data for hourly employees shows Alberta […]

Feb 21, 2024 · The UCP doesn’t really know the meaning of shame, but it must have concluded there was some political risk. At any rate, the next day Finance Minister Nate Horner put out a press release in which he claimed, “during the first phase of our engagement on a potential provincial pension plan, we heard loud and clear that Albertans want more information on the value of the asset transfer ...

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 ...

Jan 4, 2025 · Ms. Notley’s resignation as an MLA took effect on Monday, but even before she’d announced her plan to leave politics on Dec. 12, NDP circles were abuzz with talk of Mr. Nenshi seeking to replace her in the inner-city Edmonton riding.. Mr. Nenshi’s intention was made public in a notice to New Democratic Party members in the riding stating a nomination meeting will be held on Jan. 22 and ...

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 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 ...