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Oct 8, 2024 · Grant Notley left a greater mark on Alberta than his position as leader and sole MLA of a small party would suggest. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death in an airplane crash of Grant Notley, a man who left a greater mark on Alberta than his position as the leader of a small political party with only one seat in the Legislature would suggest he should have.
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4 days ago · 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 ...
‘Best Summer Ever’ takes its toll on Jason ... - Alberta Politics
Oct 5, 2021 · Alberta Opposition NDP Leader and former premier Rachel Notley (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Indeed, a Sept. 20-27 survey by EKOS pegged support for Mr. Kenney’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic at 11 per cent. Now, you can argue that the two polls measure apples and oranges – approval of Mr. Kenney’s overall governing (very low) and approval of his efforts on the pandemic file (even ...
Support for Freedom Convoy in Alberta was an inch wide and an …
Oct 17, 2022 · “Sizeable majorities of Albertans felt the Freedom Convoy took its protest too far,” the paper also says, and 47 per cent of Albertans answered that the Trudeau government did the right thing by invoking the Emergencies Act.. By contrast, indicators of support for the Convoyers’ activities were low – 2 per cent indicated they donated money, and pro-and con dinner table discussions, by ...
Two new polls Wednesday say UCP and NDP are close to …
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.
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 […]
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 …
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 …
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Apr 8, 2021 · Having opted Tuesday for a return to restrictions on some business and social activities to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the face of virulent mutations of the coronavirus, Premier Jason Kenney immediately faced a full-blown rebellion yesterday by 15 members of his United Conservative Caucus in the Alberta Legislature, including the Speaker of the […]
Alberta premier unseen since Aug. 9 as COVID counts rise; …
Aug 25, 2021 · With COVID-19 case counts in Alberta marching higher by the day, now closing in on 8,000 active cases, the chorus of grumbles about what’s become of Premier Jason Kenney is increasing in volume. Mr. Kenney was last seen on Aug. 9 at a press conference called to announce expansion of an Edmonton brewery that promised […]