Alberta’s UCP Heads to the Far Right

The party’s weekend convention showed the power of Take Back Alberta’s social conservative messaging.

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Danielle Smith is coming for your pension. Is this her Brexit moment?

Her dream of an Alberta Pension Plan would remove half the assets of the CPP, according to a report the province commissioned.

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Danielle Smith’s Carbon Capture Contradictions

The tech is a ‘boondoggle.’ Also, she’s a fan. Though lukewarm. It depends on who’s listening.

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Danielle Smith Rips Off the Mask

Her combative, gaslighting persona was put away for the election campaign. It was back this week.

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Danielle Smith’s power struggle: Why Alberta’s premier is picking a fight over net-zero

Is an Alberta sovereignty act fight in the works, as the province pushes back against Ottawa’s plan for electricity grids? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s latest battle with the federal government is about two kinds of power: electrical and political. On the electricity side of things, Smith is furious with Ottawa’s push to make Alberta’s power grid net-zero by 2035. Politically…

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