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Alberta separatists have no intention of paying attention to legal rulings or the supreme law of the land
It can no longer be denied the UCP is a separatist party; if its leaders had a shred of honour, they would drop the pretence
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December 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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UCP trots out woke-gun-grab hysteria in hopes of keeping its MAGAfied far-right critics on a leash
Scratch an Alberta separatist, 51st Stater, Trudeau-hater, anti-vaxxer, or F-flag purchaser, and you’ll find its almost always about guns
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December 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Chief Electoral Officer declares Forever Canadian petition a verified success – so what happens next?
Petition proponent Thomas Lukaszuk offers his thoughts on whether Premier Danielle Smith allows a vote in the Legislature, or proceeds to a divisive referendum
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December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney spawns a separatist monster in its ranks
Danielle Smith learns that if you’re gonna lie down with dogs, you’re gonna get up with fleas
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November 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Expect an Alberta election call shortly, before anyone realizes that pipeline to Prince Rupert is unlikely ever to be built
Danielle Smith didn’t exactly cross the floor again, but yesterday’s announcement was ‘close enough for government work’
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November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one
Alberta’s premier and Canada’s PM will make their pipeline ‘grand bargain’ official today – there’s no shortage of people who are going to hate it
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November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Five more UCP MLAs’ names added to Elections Alberta’s growing recall list
It’s funny how nobody talked about the original intent of the Recall Act when Conservative activists were using it to attack former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek
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November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Alberta’s growing list of MLA recall petitions is a grassroots phenomenon that’s turning into a grassfire!
The UCP would like you to believe the recalls are work of a vast and well financed woke conspiracy – but where’s the evidence?
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November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Cringe as they may be, don’t assume Canada’s radical far right is going to fail, warns high-profile social media commentator
Rachel Gilmore, ‘your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist,’ addressed the Parkland Conference in Edmonton Saturday
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November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Alberta moves to make quackery great again while protecting egregiously unprofessional behaviour
Alberta’s Regulated Professions Neutrality Act is about legitimizing false narratives and open bigotry, not protecting all freedom of expression
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November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did
The iconic country music performer showed up in Edmonton yesterday with paperwork for a referendum petition to halt coal mining in the Rockies
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November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Danielle Smith has a plan: Alberta will destroy health care in order to save it!
In the UCP’s world, the Charter of Rights exists to protect legislatures and governments from the people whose rights they intend to trample!
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November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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O Tempora! O Mores! UCP Cabinet minister’s inclusion of a crude epithet in phone call to constituent shocks almost no one
But Tanya Fir’s seeming implication the familiar compound noun applied to anyone who called to complain about UCP policy deserved questions in the Legislature
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Desperate to hide what they’ve become, UCP goes to court to stop MLAs from calling themselves ‘progressive conservatives’
The UCP will likely consider its effort a success even if all they accomplish is preventing anyone from running as a PC until after the next election
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November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Are Mark Carney and Danielle Smith playing Grey Cup football footsie about that bitumen pipeline scheme?
Alberta’s premier is telegraphing a pipeline deal with the Liberals in Ottawa; federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre and the province’s separatists won’t be happy about that
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November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Devin Dreeshen, UCP transportation minister, has a plan to make Alberta’s highways even more dangerous
When B.C. raised the speed limit to 120 km/h on rural highways, fatalities doubled
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November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Asymmetrical political warfare comes to Alberta in the form of recall campaigns targeting UCP politicians
The Recall Act is bad law, drafted and enacted for bad reasons, but there should be no sympathy for the premier and her MLAs for the way it’s being used now
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November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … who to believe?
Did Conservatives Andrew Scheer and Chris Warkentin yell at Chris d’Entremont and call him a snake? Yeah, probably …
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November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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MP Matt Jeneroux: a harbinger of Conservative leadership crises?
The Edmonton MP, who says he’s quitting politics after rumours he would cross the floor to the Liberals, has been in a similar situation before
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November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon
This puts Alberta’s UCP Government in an interesting and potentially perilous spot – do they dare to risk using the Notwithstanding Clause again to try to break another strike?
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November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Sounds as if the UCP will soon pull the plug on its recall election, now that government MLAs are on the receiving end
Deja vu all over again… Premier William Aberhart’s Social Credit Government retroactively dumped recall legislation in 1937 when he became the target
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November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet!
Who thought Jason Kenney’s recall legislation would be a medium for public anger at the UCP?
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November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands
Albertans who want our oil industry to endure should fear the U.S. president’s plan to topple the government in Caracas
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November 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Forever Canadian campaign delivers petition forms signed by 456,365 citizens to Elections Alberta
Campaign led by former PC deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk required 294,000 signatures, a hurdle thought by many to be unsurpassable
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October 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers
The province-wide teachers’ strike could end as early as Wednesday – the fallout will last much longer
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October 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM