How bad is the social studies curriculum the United Conservative Party wants to start piloting? Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). We all know it’s bad. But I mean, seriously, how bad is it really? Last Friday, the expert panel asked by the province to weigh in on
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Alberta Politics: Budget Day: Creatures of the night return to the hallways of Alberta’s Legislature as boisterous protesters chant outside
The thing about Budget Day at the Legislature that news media seldom gets across is that the real news usually isn’t the budget. The budget’s broad strokes are all known long before the details roll off the press at the Queen’s Printer or its privatized equivalent. Alberta Finance Minister Travis
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Notley’s NDP should ban corporate and union donations in municipal elections
One of the main promises made by the NDP before their win in the May 2015 provincial election was a commitment to ban corporate and union donations in provincial politics. Current campaign finance laws allow individuals, corporations and labour unions to… Continue Reading →
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