Alberta Politics
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David J. Climenhaga is an award-winning journalist, author, post-secondary teacher, poet, and trade union, communicator. Alberta Politics is David Climenhaga's Polical Diary
Alberta Politics
10h ago
Rachel Notley, Alberta’s first NDP premier and the woman who in 2015 broke the Progressive Conservative party’s seemingly unshakable grip on power in this province, has announced her full departure from politics. In a social media post this morning, Ms. Notley stated her intention to write the Speaker of the Alberta Legislature and resign her ..read more
Alberta Politics
2d ago
Since Naheed Nenshi replaced Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP last June, the Opposition party appears to have gone from all tactics and no strategy to all strategy and no tactics. The crucial by-election to replace former NDP cabinet minister Shannon Phillips in Lethbridge-West is one week away yet very little has been ..read more
Alberta Politics
2d ago
Busted by the Alberta local of the electrical workers’ union and a couple of federal NDP Members of Parliament, the United Conservative Party Government has put its plan to recruit new temporary workers by poaching temporary workers from Dubai on ice. On Friday, under a picture of Premier Danielle Smith walking with a guy in ..read more
Alberta Politics
4d ago
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 ..read more
Alberta Politics
6d ago
Now that the fall session of the Alberta Legislature is over and the United Conservative Party is celebrating its success pushing through major parts of its radical agenda, a number of new laws continue to arouse controversy. As a result, Bill 35, the All Season Resorts Act, hasn’t really received the careful attention it deserves ..read more
Alberta Politics
1w ago
During this fall’s eventful session of the Alberta Legislature, the United Conservative Party Government attacked the rights of some vulnerable Albertans to medical treatment, undermined the right of all citizens to public information, made it easier to keep citizens from exercising their right to use public land, and even tried to make it illegal for ..read more
Danielle Smith’s latest blatantly unconstitutional border patrol brainstorm is about owning the Libs
Alberta Politics
1w ago
On its face, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s screwball scheme to create a provincial border patrol force intended to prevent Canadian citizens from crossing the U.S. border into Montana is blatantly unconstitutional. As evidence, I give you section 6.1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: “Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter ..read more
Alberta Politics
1w ago
At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where’s John A. Macdonald when we need him? I speak, of course, not of the policies that gave rise to the tragic legacy of Canada’s first prime minister so admired by Alberta’s first United Conservative Party premier – opposed as Mr. Kenney was to seeing the heads ..read more
Alberta Politics
1w ago
It turns out not everything about yesterday’s announcement that the United Conservative Government is “making progress refocusing the health care system” was illogical and misleading. One tidbit about the chaotic restructuring, the point of which has never been coherently explained by any official spokesperson, is that the government is replacing Alberta Health Services’ five zones ..read more
Alberta Politics
2w ago
The United Conservative Party is pulling the plug on regional planning in Alberta in a move that will be a big win for the “Sprawl Cabal” of wealthy developers and for municipal politicians in smaller communities clustered around the province’s two biggest cities. But it’ll be a disaster for Edmonton and Calgary taxpayers and the ..read more