“I encourage you to look up what puberty is," says the premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith. 🫡 www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Interim report on Alberta health contract scandal not finished, won't be made public From me today: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/inter...

SCOOP: A consultant advising Alberta Health Services on private surgical facilities simultaneously negotiated with AHS on behalf of a company vying to open such a clinic, according to a confidential report obtained by The Globe. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Saskatchewan is hoping the Supreme Court of Canada will quickly hear its appeal to a ruling on the province's school pronoun law, citing the legal case as one of national importance. Lawyers opposing the law also want to see the case heard alongside a challenge of Quebec's religious-symbols law.

"Her interest in using the Constitution's so-called nuclear option to do so comes after a political lifetime believing in the protection of people's fundamental rights and freedoms."

“How do you counter Goliath?” www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/notwi...

Political interference in health care sets a dangerous precedent. The CMA is calling on the Alberta government to refrain from using the notwithstanding clause to enact legislation that threatens patient care.

I wrote this column for @albertaviews.bsky.social two years ago. But tonight’s news inspired me to share it here. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta planning to use the notwithstanding clause. Some solid sleuthing by @reportrix.bsky.social #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn't need to hold referenda on some of the Alberta Next panel ideas to bring them to fruition: By @reportrix.bsky.social #AbLeg #FMM #RMWB

Anywhoo, some detailed answers from Diane, including: "It is unclear from the government announcement as to what purpose the inclusion of this information on Albertans' driver's licenses will serve. It's also unclear what the benefit for Albertans would be." Updated: tinyurl.com/bdz6eztk

Didn't get any responses today to my questions this morning to Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally's office, but I'm told they're working on it. Nally did appear on the radio today on this topic. "Because we live in Canada, there will be no discrimination." Behold: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Here's what the Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Diane McLeod said today in response to Premier Danielle Smith's announcement yesterday that she's making citizenship markers mandatory for driver's licenses. Statement from McLeod in full: #ableg

Critics are questioning what problem adding mandatory citizenship markers to provincial identification aims to solve, and say it opens the door to potential privacy breaches and discrimination. Bonus sarcastic late night ad hominem attack from Alberta PO: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Citizens, permanent residents, and refugees are eligible to apply for provincial social programs. But only citizenship status is being targeted here. Elections Alberta says 3 people have been flagged for ineligible voting since the 2023 provincial election, among more than 1.77 million votes cast

"If this gets to a ballot, there will be marriages that will break up over it. There will be wives and husbands who just can't tolerate each other over their opinions on this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... from @billgraveland.bsky.social

Alberta’s oil and gas well problem is a “giant stinking pile of shit,” the premier’s special advisor — who wrote the province’s strategy to address the issue — told a frustrated crowd in rural Alberta. @drewanderson.bsky.social was there. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...

“We face a dangerous shortage of health care professionals in our province, a shortage that is felt by every Albertan who endures longer response times, longer wait times in emergency rooms, delayed surgeries therapy and the prolonged agony of waiting.” edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

"Teachers’ patience has run out," Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers' Association, told reporters Wednesday. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

Squabbling aside, an eight-year-old girl has died a horrific death. She and her family deserve justice. ca.news.yahoo.com/cp-newsalert... via @reportrix.bsky.social

Tuesday, in Alberta: Head of Criminal Trial Lawyers' Association likens Edmonton police's threat to release details of its investigation of the case to extortion.

SCOOP: Edmonton police have sent a letter to the provincial minister in charge of prosecutions objecting to a plea deal in the case of a woman charged with murdering an 8-year-old Indigenous girl. Never seen anything like this before. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

“Julie King-Yerex, co-owner of Magpie Books in Edmonton, said people have come into the shop ‘asking for our vicious compliance section.’ “ (By CP’s Aaron Souza) #Ableg #AbEd

The Smith government's AISH upheaval, combined with cash clawback, is deeply traumatic to Alberta's most vulnerable people. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abgov #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg

Rather…big strike averted. From @jack-farrell.bsky.social today edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Alberta government workers approve mediated deal, strike averted From me this evening: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

Alberta rewriting order banning school library books to protect classics: Smith Final updated version of the day — no new order issued as of 6pm ‘Berta time: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Atwood on her banned book: "I can’t comment when I don’t know why it’s been banned. For describing what an American theological dictatorship could look like? ... " open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Alberta pauses ban on school library books with sexual content nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/02/c...

NEW - The Alberta government is pausing its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries. /via @jack-farrell.bsky.social @reportrix.bsky.social lethbridgeherald.com/news/nationa...

Here’s the second flip floperrrino from the Alberta government today. Looking for a proactive press release about the restoration of proactive expense receipt disclosure policy today? Good luck. edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/08/19/a...

This comes two months after the government said most Albertans, including health workers, would have to pay for COVID-19 shots this season. Here’s one of two Tuesday Alberta government reversals I will personally remember for a long time: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/alber...

It's interesting how often issues that are making headlines in the United States start popping up in Alberta. Here, a minister proposes redrawing electoral boundaries in a way that would create an "agri-innovation" corridor--and likely eliminate the only reliably NDP seat in southern Alberta.

No idea how this plays out but. Considering the hullabaloo about the possibility of a spring snap election - some will argue if Guthrie and Sinclair collaborate the shit out of the Alberta Party it could hamper Premier Smith’s current significant polling advantage time enough for… other wrinkles.

“The PC Alberta name, logo and goodwill were being used by people with no right to it,” says UCP. “You can't own ‘progressive’ and you can't own ‘conservative,'" says Guthrie. More details from what’s come to light on this particular #ableg fight: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

From me today: Alberta government slammed for incompetence as it pays out $143M in coal policy reversal www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/alb...

"I've spent a lot of time in burnt forest," said Lori Daniels, a professor and co-director at the University of British Columbia's Centre for Wildfire Coexistence. "And I have to say, there are parts of the Jasper fire that were absolutely shocking." Really great read from @mattscace.bsky.social:

Who would surveil and try to intimidate a journalist like this, and do they think this is in any way OK in a democratic society?

What a headline www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

After receiving a warm welcome and widespread support just 24 hours earlier, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith faced a more vocally critical and frustrated crowd in Edmonton for the second of a series of summer town halls. via @jack-farrell.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

This, in Edmonton, was way more combative than in Red Deer. The word "propaganda" was used more than once. Smith became the go-to question-answerer in what eventually sounded more like a press conference with her than a panel. Support? Muchly. Some said they came from nearby rural areas to give it

The first meeting that Danielle Smith called to chart Alberta's future federal approach was DEEPLY pro-Alberta Pension Plan and related anti-Ottawa moves. What will she take from these self-selected crowds? New from me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here's a tee up to tonight's Alberta Next town hall in Edmonton based on reaction from last night. More to come from my buddy @jack-farrell.bsky.social. It's already become a rather fiery event with much more pushback against the government's Q's. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Smith's Alberta Next Panel - an initiative that aims to publicly debate strategies to get a better deal with Ottawa - met last night in Red Deer. ICYMI, the conversation consistently circled back to the separation question. Here's how it shook down, from me: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Worth keeping an eye on, as the first of Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel's public hearings start tomorrow in Red Deer.

Alberta’s trans sports ban regulations, which are, like, the specific rules that follow legislation, are meant to be about ensuring fairness and safety in female sports. Here’s what we know now about how the rubber will meet the road: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/alber...

Some Alberta ER patients have better than average wait time odds. An Edmonton ER doc wanted to give a face to the Other numbers: “I had to stare into the eyes of the other 13 people down that hallway who all watched me walk up to one person and not them.” www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/alber...

@laurby.bsky.social don’t lie. This is an exceptional piece of political analysis that sheds some light on more than just one man.

Alberta’s health care legislation affecting trans people went much further than any other such jurisdiction in Canada. Moe used the notwithstanding clause to force parental consent on pronoun changes in school. A copy cat bill in Alberta, along with a trans sports ban, have yet to take full effect