It would appear that the United Conservative Party Caucus is OK with having 18 of its members, including eight cabinet ministers, publicly identified as supporters of Alberta independence from Canada,…
A headline in Friday’s Calgary Herald asks: “Is the UCP still a pro-Canada party?” That’s one of those questions that, if you have to ask it, you already know the…
It’s all very well that Stephen Harper has assured Canadians he didn’t sign Alberta’s separation referendum petition, but that’s not good enough. It was, as the CBC’s online wordsmith put…
The poor little rich kid of Confederation is pleading poverty again. But take note, it’s not Alberta’s fault! (It’s never Alberta’s fault.) In an announcement yesterday that the next Alberta…
Despite its name, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, is not health care legislation. The purpose of the law that was granted Royal Assent on Dec. 11 last year is…
Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre tried hard to channel Prime Minister Mark Carney in Calgary Friday evening, partly succeeding. If the notion he’s paid attention to Canada’s changing…
British Columbia Premier David Eby yesterday said what a lot of Canadians have been thinking – to wit, that the Alberta separatists gallivanting off to Washington to get the Trump…
Pierre Poilievre is arguably the worst federal Canadian Conservative leader since … well, only since Andrew Scheer, actually. Still, he’s a political leader who blew a 27-point lead in public…
As a work of political performance art, NDP Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi’s challenge yesterday to United Conservative Party MLAs to sign a letter saying they are proud Canadians, opponents of…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that virtually no one, with the possible exception of the American porn star Stormy Daniels, has ever benefited from a relationship with Donald Trump.…
We can all agree that last Friday’s opinion piece by NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Alberta separatism published by CTV News had an accurate headline: The threat to our nation…
A well-known emergency medicine physician has compiled a list of six patients who died waiting for a doctor to attend to them in Alberta’s packed and chaotic Emergency Rooms over…
Notwithstanding Friday’s ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal that the Trudeau Government’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the convoy occupation of Ottawa in January and February 2022…
More than anything, yesterday’s press conference about how the Alberta Government proposes to fix the horrific mess in this province’s hospital Emergency Rooms where patients can wait up to 72…
In a back-handed admission that Alberta’s hospital Emergency Rooms are in a colossal mess, the CEO of one of the United Conservative Party Government’s confusing tangle of new medical bureaucracies…
Ever since emergency medicine physicians in Edmonton called last Friday for Alberta to declare a state of emergency about the catastrophic condition of the city’s hospital Emergency Rooms, the only…
Former United Conservative Party energy minister Sonya Savage spoke the truth on Friday when she forcefully suggested on a podcast that without public funding Premier Danielle Smith’s perpetual pipeline project…
Turns out having a governing party dominated by MAGA-influenced anti-vaxxers and ideological privatizers like Premier Danielle Smith isn’t actually good for health care! Who could have seen that coming? Alberta’s…
Compared to Venezuelan oilsands crude, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canadian oil is cheaper, cleaner, and “clearly low risk.” “Canadian oil will be competitive because it is low-risk, clearly…
Credit where credit is due, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Venezuelan raid and kidnapping has accomplished one important thing: There was hardly a word in the media about the Epstein Files…
