Alberta PoliticsOpinion

Danielle Smith promotes delusional history of U.S. and Canadian constitutions to promote separation referendum

In Danielle Smith’s Alberta, if the facts don’t support your argument, you can make up new facts. Alberta’s premier ...
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UCP plan to railroad a separation referendum onto this fall’s ballot goes off the rails

The United Conservative Party’s effort to railroad a separation referendum onto a ballot this fall and blame it on the people ...
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Danielle Smith expected to try to force Albertans to endure a separation referendum – and blame someone else for it

Thanks to her sneaky separatist manoeuvring, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to have wedged herself between the ...
Alberta Politics

The Wrath of Jeff: Prominent Alberta separatist advocates internal UCP coup to oust Danielle Smith

Prominent Alberta separatist Jeffrey Rath, in cowboy hat, waits to speak during an independence rally at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton last fall (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Happy Victoria Day!
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Despite political differences, Mark Carney and Danielle Smith have more objectives in common than they don’t

There’s no need to make the explanation of the carbon pricing, carbon capture and bitumen pipeline deal announced Friday in ...
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Danielle Smith and the UCP can’t be very happy with Alberta’s chief electoral officer

Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party can’t be too happy today with Elections Alberta and its boss, Chief ...
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If Danielle Smith were smart, she’d treat court ruling quashing separatist petition as a political get-out-of-jail-free card

If Alberta Premier Danielle Smith were smart, she’d treat yesterday’s Court of King’s Bench ruling quashing Elections Alberta ...
Alberta Politics

You thought the voters list debacle was bad? 20 years ago, Alberta Conservatives wanted our birthdays on it too!

Lorne Gibson soon after he was sworn in as Alberta’s Election Commissioner in 2018 (Photo: Office of the Alberta Election Commissioner). As bad as the release of the personal data of three million ...
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Danielle Smith – the public face of foreign interference in Canada – gets Canadian security clearance

Danielle Smith, who is basically the public face of foreign interference in Canada, has been given a Canadian “Top Secret” ...