NEW: Two Palestinian-Canadian students and a Jewish faculty member are taking U of A to court for ordering police to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment in its Main Quad in 2024.
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Alberta govt legislates two-tier health care, again
Private-pay testing will increase public wait times, making the diagnostic testing bottleneck worse, and continue to unravel the foundational principles of the Canada Health Act
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"Many at the public hearings on blanket rezoning spoke in support of more density — as long as it happened somewhere other than their own neighbourhood.This is frankly an impossible request for the city to fulfil, b/c if the policy only apply somewhere else, it will effectively be applied nowhere."
My colleagues @hadrianmk.bsky.social and @davidmaccdn.bsky.social have a excellent analysis out that meet's the current moment
We need a windfall tax on the Canadian oil industry
Politicians keep telling us that we can't have nice things. Here's a way to raise revenue for those nice things
Police told us that body cams would be used to hold them accountable and to prevent abuse.
Instead, they're going to be used to surveil the entire public—and then to send all the surveillance data to a robot false-positive generator that is accountable to no one.
"Coun. Aaron Paquette, who represents where the shelter is located, told CBC News he had received reports that open-air drug use and physical violence nearby had impacted surrounding businesses," but the province disputes this, noting that the city had made no complaints to the shelter's operators.
The orphan well inventory is way up. The orphan well levy is not. #ableg
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A court has issued a stay in any certification of petition results or making referral to the Justice Minister until the court has ruled on applications by ACFN/Blackfoot nations.
Decision does not impact the continued collection of signatures for the sovereignty petition
My attempt at summarizing separatist lawyer Jeff Rath's arguments in today's hearing on the legality of Alberta independence edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
According to a press release from the Alberta NDP caucus this morning, the For Alberta, For Canada campaign will begin with a 'day of action' canvassing blitz on April 25. Albertans who would like to participate in this can get involved by signing up through the campaign website.
The Alberta NDP have been arguing against separation in the Legislature and in the media, but had left formal campaigning on the issue to third-party groups like Thomas Lukaszuk's Forever Canadian. Now, a change in tactics:
New from me: an Edmonton judge is hearing the first of three First Nations legal challenges against the Alberta separation referendum today. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation’s focuses on the UCP’s Bill 14, which removed treaty protections from the Citizen Initiative Act edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
NEWS: A group of Edmonton lawyers are asking Alberta’s justice minister to direct an investigation into the city’s police chief and the service’s top lawyer over their controversial intervention in a child homicide case. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...
There have been at least two requests to Justice Minister Mickey Amery for a criminal investigation of EPS Chief Warren Driechel and chief legal counsel Megan Hankewich for obstruction of justice, intimidation of a justice official, extortion and conspiracy. 2
Fraser called the actions of the EPS “reprehensible” and made it clear that he also felt threatened and that the police may have crossed the line into criminality. “The veiled threat that they may release more information about this matter if they are not happy about the sentence I impose comes dangerously close, and may actually cross the line, into an attempt to wilfully obstruct, pervert, or defeat the course of justice in a judicial proceeding,” Fraser said in his ruling.
A judge in this case said Edmonton Police may have crossed the line into criminality by attempting to bully him and the prosecutor on a plea deal. 1
Lawyers Group Wants a Criminal Probe of Edmonton's Top Cop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...
SCOOP: Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery curtailed Elections Alberta's power to penalize when Sam Mraiche was under investigation.
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The Premier of Alberta, who helped usher in a vote to declare independence from Canada, talked up Ivermectin at a Forum obsessed with thinly-veiled antisemitic conspiracy theories about international bankers. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Alberta man launches legal action against province over closings of supervised consumption sites. Travis Peddie alleges the closures violate his Charter-protected rights and increase the risk of harm, by @alannasmith.bsky.social
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Corb Lund and the Water Not Coal campaign continue to collect signatures for their petition to ban coal mining in the Rockies. They maintain a calendar on their website listing upcoming opportunities to sign or volunteer, linked below.
The Avi Lewis Era, Day 1: Nobody does Red-baiting like Alberta does Red-baiting! albertapolitics.ca/2026/03/the-...
"The nicest thing that can be said about Mr. Nenshi’s screed is that it’s ill-timed and clearly a reaction to United Conservative Party Premier Danielle Smith’s inevitable effort to tie the Alberta NDP to its federal counterpart.
It has the potential, though, to turn into a spectacular own goal..."
Tensions between the federal and provincial NDP unlikely to ease as ANDP leader Nenshi is right out of the gates with an attack on the new federal leader Lewis today. The conflict is largely over o&g.
"We believe in more pipelines and in reducing emissions," Nenshi asserts, somewhat oxymoronically.
Alberta's NDP warns of gerrymandering as new boundary map recommendations released
UCP appointees on the commission had a “radical about face” in recent months, which Nenshi attributes to political pressure from Smith — who didn’t comment.
From me:
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MacLean publishes at womenofabpoli.substack.com and is here on Bluesky if you would like to follow her work.
Because there will be no penalty or letter of reprimand, this finding by the commissioner would not be published on the Elections Alberta website. The complainant, a local political journalist named Deirdre MacLean, shared it on social media this evening.
An email from Alberta Election Commissioner Paula Hale to journalist Deirdre MacLean. "I write to inform you of the outcorne of your cornplaint that the Honourable Minister Dale Nally used the list of electors inappropriately when he provided his member's response on November 17, 2025, to the recall petitbn that had been approved. I have concluded my investigation. I have reviewed all the evidence collected and considered section 20 of the Election Act, which, in my view, is intended to protect the personal information of electors. I find that Minister Nally had accessed the List of Electors for a purpose not authorized by the Election Act; however, I acknowledge that there is ambiguity about whether the use of the List of Electors would have been appropriate in these circumstances. Accordingly, my decision is to close the file without issuing a letter of reprimand or an administrative penalty. Instead, Minister Nally was provided advice to support his future use of the List of Electors. As required by section 54(2Xa) of the Recall Act and section 153.091 (5) of the Election Act, this is your notice of investigation outcorne. My Office will be taking no further action, and this matter is concluded."
Elections Alberta finds that yes, Dale Nally did violate the Elections Act when he pulled voter records in order to attack the credibility of an organizer of a petition against him. But there will be no penalty. The commissioner feels the Act is ambiguous enough that Nally might have been confused.
🧵 Remember two summers ago when the Alberta government congratulated itself for allowing 'just' 73 drug toxicity deaths in May 2024?
And a very small number of people suggested that their number was bullshit?
We were right. It was. 1/
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“With a furious, heart-breaking 43-34 vote, the provincial government decided to dismiss thousands of Albertans with disabilities, essentially telling desperate parents that their children just do not matter enough to warrant a simple legal framework.”
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A legal dispute between a contractor and Sam Mraiche, the Edmonton multimillionaire at the centre of a scandal involving Alberta’s ruling UCP, has stopped work on a provincially funded addiction recovery centre and is threatening a work stoppage at a second.
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports.
Scoop.
Unpaid Subcontractors for Recovery Centres Say UCP Abandoned Them via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...