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Alberta premier Danielle Smith wants to know if British Columbia Premier David Eby is still on Team Canada or not. On her Saturday radio program, Your Province, Your Premier, Smith called out Eby for being a disappointing provincial teammate at a time when she said the whole country has to come together to find new markets for their resources. “He...
Pierre Poilievre white-hatted himself at the Calgary Stampede Saturday, looking every bit the rural Alberta MP he hopes to soon become. The Conservative Party leader, who lost his Ottawa seat in the most recent federal election, is running in an Aug. 18 byelection in central Alberta’s Battle River-Crowfoot riding. On Saturday at the Stampede, Poilievre sang the praises of former...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is under fire for an interview she did Mar. 8 with Breitbart in the U.S. over controversial remarks that appear to suggest she asked the Trump administration to lay off their tariff threats until after a Canadian federal election in the hopes of seeing Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives elected.
After three days of silence surrounding explosive allegations concerning the procurement and contracting process at Alberta Health Services (AHS), Premier Danielle Smith issued a response Saturday morning. Smith said the allegations, first published in the Globe & Mail on Wednesday, were “troubling” and that she will be writing to auditor general Doug Wylie “to ask for an expedited review.” “We...
Alberta premier Danielle Smith met with President-elect Donald Trump Saturday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Smith posted an update on social media Sunday, including photos of herself with Trump and Dragon’s Den star Kevin O’Leary. “We had a friendly and constructive conversation,” Smith said, “during which I emphasized the mutual importance of the U.S. – Canadian energy relationship, and specifically, how...
Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn’t find president-elect Donald Trump’s jibes about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state very amusing. Harper took to social media Wednesday to repost the text of a Conservative Party of Canada video that was released 13 years ago. He didn’t actually mention Trump by name or reference his recent comments suggesting that the U.S...