Braid: The cat sculpture gift from Saudi Arabia is beautiful. It just isn't gold Braid: Premier Smith has been taking heat for accepting a cat sculpture from Saudi Arabia, with claims it's pure gold. But it's copper.

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The golden cat Smith accepted goes public with an actual photo. She's a leopard, not just any cat - and not gold either. Column.
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So looking forward to having Elections Alberta examine the legality of the petition's connections to US interests.
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Opinion: Calgary’s water crisis is a warning we must heed 'No essential service should be designed and operated this way,' says head of independent review into 2024 feeder main break.

This excellent opinion piece by the chair of Bearspaw pipe study group pulls no punches, shows what a mess we're in, scolds council for deferring action (which is the whole problem!)
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Braid: Blame me if you're angry, Farkas says, but failure to cut water use could cost lives Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas, desperately worried, is trying to get the public to pay attention to the water crisis, writes Don Braid.

Faskas amps up save-water plea, even saying people could die if system fails. He's desperate for people to finally get the message. Column.
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CARGA UPDATE: New homes in Victoria support people in recovery - BC Green Caucus People in recovery in Victoria who are experiencing homelessness or leaving supportive housing will soon have a safe place to stay, with the Province, the City and the Victoria Cool Aid Society partne...

People in recovery in Victoria who are experiencing homelessness or leaving supportive housing will soon have a safe place to stay, with the Province, the BC Greens, the City and the Victoria Cool Aid Society partnering to deliver recovery-oriented homes downtown.

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Good Talk -- Danielle Smith on Mark Carney -- Best Moment Ever? Really?

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Tim Thielmann on Instagram: "Conserving the art of the conversation." 68 likes, 6 comments - timforvictoria on October 15, 2024: "Conserving the art of the conversation.".

re "White cane supremacist."

Tim Thielman is blind or vision impaired as his instagram video shows and has a white cane.

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Braid: Ban on sex in school library books gets more explicit that the offending material The Alberta government's ban on sex in school library book kept getting more restrictive, until the ban is arguably more explicit than the books

REVISED: I made a blooper in column about ban on sex books in schools; non-sexual, scientific images of the body aren't banned. But this policy is still a puritanical throw to an angry minority.
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Braid: Separatism is a ruse; the real battle for autonomy is fought with UCP legislation Braid: Separatism is a ruse. The Alberta UCP and Premier Danielle Smith are enacting autonomy law by law.

Separatism is a ruse; the real battle for autonomy is fought with UCP legislation. Column.
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Danielle Smith is a Separatist She wants Alberta to leave Canada. Sign the petition today. Stand up for Alberta. Stand up for Canada.

Danielle Smith is not interested in moving Alberta forward. She only works to tear us—and our country—apart.

We know we are stronger together.

Join the thousands of Albertans who are proud to be Canadian: separatistsmith.ca #bpoli #ableg

The companies (not Benga/Northback/Grassy - dead project as a result of the JRP decision) claim compensation on the basis that the general moratorium of 2022 deprives them of the opportunity to develop their coal properties.
The key case is Annapolis 2022 SCC 36 at para 44.
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J P Tasker let Andrew Scheer lie over and over again yesterday on Power and Politics when Scheer kept calling out Trudeau for "a cap on production" on fossil fuels when really it is a cap on EMISSIONS, not production. I wish it were a cap on production but it's on emissions. #cdnpoli #bpoli #skpoli