Alberta premier rejects Opposition claims UCP interfering on electoral boundaries
Commissioner Susan Samson says “something or someone” sure did, but she doesn’t expect to ever learn the truth.
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The Canadian Press attended and took photos and recorded video of the event.
In the full video, Carney does not make the comments attributed to him in the clip, nor does he discuss Alberta separatism at any point.
This is the scrum with Brandon Lunty and reporters today in the Alberta legislature. He’s the UCP MLA tasked with overseeing the Alberta government’s re-do of the Electoral Boundaries commission report, with the help of a new panel.
Another @jack-farrell.bsky.social appreciation post: the UCP messaging today really focused on the importance of establishing 91 ridings (as opposed to the current 87). The track to 89 that we were once on was laid in 2024, by the UCP. Read this throwback www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
The (previous) #ableg electoral boundaries commission report is a bit of a beast, and there was some real spin today. But I have @jack-farrell.bsky.social -- if you want to understand what happened and what's changing, this piece takes you by the hand
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Edmonton hospital admins are filing disciplinary actions against some doctors, revoking their hospital privileges and filing complaints to the regulatory college in the fallout over a contract dispute. Lawyers and the AMA say it needs to stop. #AbLeg
Here is a detailed legalese description of what Idaho lawmakers deems obscene sexual stuff listed in House Bill No. 710: To take one point out of context, it is "discernibly turgid." legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/u...
The #ableg bill echoes Idaho's, but then goes further. The state's 2024 law defines obscene materials. Alberta's proposed law does not - it creates very broad powers to regulate public libraries. Alberta's gov says they're focused on one thing, to be written in regulations. ICYMI: shorturl.at/Zcsi2
Awhile back, a rural Idaho library had to restrict unaccompanied children to comply with state law to relocate material to adults only. “There is no book banning, and there’s no book burning and there’s no book removal,” said the bill sponsor. idahocapitalsun.com/2024/07/15/w...
SCOOP: Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery curtailed Elections Alberta's power to penalize when Sam Mraiche was under investigation.
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A librarian in Tennessee was fired this week for refusing to move over 130 books with LGBTQ+ themes to the system’s adult section.
Battles over access to children’s books with LGBTQ+ themes have played out through libraries across the U.S.
Williams was eager to hold up pages of graphic novels with a sexually explicit example of the images they seek to restrict multiple times. I honestly lost track. The Coalition of Alberta Public Libraries said they were caught off guard and tried so essplain the concept of intellectual freedom
I asked Minister Jason Nixon if he thought the committee he sits on could finish the work of the Lukaszuk committee in ten sitting days. Nixon: "I am very, very confident that we will be able to complete our work." He did not answer a chorus of "but when?" www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
Many of these rules will be rolled out in regulations, yet to be determined. Government officials also didn't volunteer who was consulted on the sweeping "neutrality" effort. A new Summer of Repeal in Alberta #ableg #abed
Smith told reporters Tuesday that there's still more work to do on an a couple of points on the memorandum of understanding, including the industrial carbon price.
"I've got a different number than the prime minister at the moment, but we're hoping to land on the same number," she said.
This is a very nice story about Nanaimo bars. “Nothing is worse than a dry base on a Nanaimo bar,” Cenaiko says. ottawacitizen.com/life/hum-an-...
New rules are now in effect in the Alberta legislature that one opposition member has warned will effectively allow Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government to duck some queries for years. //by pal @reportrix.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli
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Indigenous chiefs go to Alberta legislature, pressure province to nip separatism push
From me and @reportrix.bsky.social today:
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Vocal anger today from the public gallery inside #ableg after a vote First Nations leaders came to Edmonton to see was shut down. One said all they asked for was a denunciation of separatism.
"Traitors!"
Speaker McIver called for order. "This is the people's house!"
Someone shot back: "All peoples!"
What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material.
Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.
Check out these charts from my friend @matthewblack.ca if you nerd out as I do edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
“The federal government can continue to replace retiring judges because the funding to support those positions is already allocated in the province’s budget.”
SCOOP: Alberta Health Services destroyed roughly half of the children's medication imported from Turkey, paying $718,000 to dispose of the hazardous waste.
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Last week, I learned an adjudicator had sided with me in 5 inquiries re: the province refusing to release results of its Alberta Next surveys
GOA published the multiple choice results in Dec but has been ordered to give me 213 pages of open-answer replies that haven't yet been shared
#ableg #abpoli
From the Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health services today: “Alberta’s government is now reviewing this decision. More information will be shared once the review is complete.”
At Alberta Next panels last year, the support for the proposal to "take more control of immigration" by withholding services was wildly popular. Up in Grande Prairie in Sept., Smith said there will be some items on which "we heard enough, we are going to move them, and we don't need a referendum."
Well, that happened fast: "The change means people on International Experience Canada (IEC) Type 58 work permits, including working holiday and young professional visa holders, are no longer eligible for Alberta’s public health system."
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The only in-depth follow I've seen in Alberta on this. This kind of journalistic work takes weeks and the impact of these government decisions will span decades. #abed #ableg
ICYMI: Yesterday, Fraser said if Alberta withdraws funding for the courts in protest, the feds won't backstop it. @jaredwesley.ca expressed concern that cases will be thrown out if they are delayed... "That's the least conservative approach to law and order that I've heard of." shorturl.at/EdN3w
