2023 UCP Alberta election

[Kirkhill]

Things look bad now, but I think if a government can focus the mind on this issue like Australia did, we can turn things around. Unfortunately, politicians of all stripes would rather play silly bugger and beat each other rhetorically rather than fix large existential problems. I mean, look at healthcare. That has been a raging dumpster fire for decades that has only been getting worse, while everyone acknowledges it’s broken and needs to be fixed. But everyone would rather use it as a cudgel on their political opponents. That’s where the incentives are.

If Poilievre is serious about fixing this, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

The problem every politician has is that of first getting elected. How much bad news are people willing to hear? How many oxen can be gored?

 

[Remius]

Smith distances herself from Take Back Alberta leader after Poilievre comments

Alberta Premier says she does not want ‘to be associated with that kind of commentary, and I don’t want to be associated with that kind of personal attack and bullying’

www.theglobeandmail.com

Good for her for calling this guy out.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

What a slack jawed ignoramus.

 

[QV]

Rahim Mohamed: Danielle Smith's Alberta model leads the way, as harm reduction consensus collapses

Recovery oriented addiction programs remain good politics for the UCP

nationalpost.com

Continuing to rack up Ws.

 

[QV]

Because local governments are legally subordinate to provincial governments, I fail to see this as a major issue. The usual inflated screech from CBC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-municipal-council-power-analysis-1.7190105

I'll consider this another check in the W column.

 

[brihard]

Because local governments are legally subordinate to provincial governments, I fail to see this as a major issue. The usual inflated screech from CBC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-municipal-council-power-analysis-1.7190105

I'll consider this another check in the W column.

Presumably you’re good with the federal power of disallowance then, should federal cabinet decide to prevent this provincial law from being enacted?

Or should we maybe leave each level of government to attend to its own affairs and not unduly thwart the wills of voters within that jurisdiction?

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Because local governments are legally subordinate to provincial governments, I fail to see this as a major issue. The usual inflated screech from CBC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-municipal-council-power-analysis-1.7190105

I'll consider this another check in the W column.

Really? A win?

When literally every municipal government in Alberta, from Acme to Calgary, to Czar and Edmonton, to Red Deer and Wetaskiwin are united against it (it is a remarkably difficult feat to get Alberta Municipalities to agree on the weather or time of day), you should know this is a major error.

The UCP screwed up.