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🤠🇨🇦 Writing about Alberta politics, elections and history at https://Daveberta.Substack.com
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Gordon Kesler served as the Western Canada Concept MLA for Olds-Didsbury from February 1982 to November 1982 during the separatist party’s brief foray into the mainstream of Alberta politics. Here’s a quote from one of his weird rants on Facebook.
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Scoop inside the scoop: AHS's internal costs for some procedures are far less than what it pays some private firms for the same operations.
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Also something to keep an eye on in light of everything: the Health Statutes Amendment Act, passed in the fall 2024 legislative session, amended the Provincial Health Agencies Act to allow them to use the Real Property Governance Act to transfer facilities from AHS to Alberta Infrastructure.
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It’s a complete lack of self-awareness.
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This isn’t a game, folks.
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Please stop rationalizing and normalizing this dangerous idea. If Trump ever did annex Canada, which he is now threatening to do on an almost daily basis, it’s unlikely he’s going to give Canadians any kind of meaningful voting rights (and no one up here is going to vote for the Democrats).
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All national polls have the Conservatives in the lead so if they’re able to maintain their current level of support they should be able to form a majority government.
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The Conservatives are the only major party with that problem. On Poilievre’s speech, I’m always mindful that parties and partisans increasingly live in their own media and news silos, so I expect it will be followed by a big national ad buy.
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I think the Conservatives will still win the next federal election, but I don’t think “the biggest and most patriotic tax cut” is going to be the most successful pro-Canada rallying cry they think it is.
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Thanks for sharing! đź‘Ť
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Yep, I think that was a pretty common result of moving naming provincial in February, which, as many of the opposition MLAs at the time noted, wasn’t a holiday for everybody.
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Don’t you dare get me started on the Crow Rate.