Alberta PoliticsOpinion

Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition

Combined with ongoing UCP electoral jiggery-pokery, this is turning into a genuine crisis of democratic legitimacy Public ...
Alberta Politics

Meta announcement shows Alberta’s determination to welcome AI data centres, public anxiety notwithstanding

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at her Meta AI data centre news conference in Calgary yesterday (Photo: Screenshot of Alberta Government video). Other than a few jobs and modest annual government ...
Alberta PoliticsOpinion

UCP’s ‘constitutional’ referendum questions push a grab-bag of right-wing policy goals intended to divide and weaken Canada

Through commission and omission, the final four questions we must deal with on Oct. 19 aim to support a provincial march into ...
Alberta PoliticsOpinion

Danielle Smith and Doug Ford, each facing criticism at home, announce performative pre-election pipeline pact

A northern route to Sarnia for Alberta heavy crude might have potential, but don’t bet the farm at Hardisty yet Alberta ...
Alberta Politics

UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a news conference last May, as she pushed her idea for a series of murkily worded, often deceptive “referendum” questions designed to advance a grab-bag of policy ...
Alberta Politics

There’s no need to worry about plans to build a huge electricity plant and AI data centre near Edmonton, Danielle Smith insists

Alberta Utilities Minister RJ Sigurdson, Premier Danielle Smith, Pembina Pipeline President Scott Burrow and Kineticor Asset Management CEO Andrew Plaunt took part in Thursday’s other Alberta ...