Recent content by Whattagame

Good thing this isn't in a central area, then.

That would look much cooler. The bigger windows is an important approvement, but it still looks like cheap pre-fab. I do wonder if the red strips are supposed to be Massey Ferguson red.

The luxury of running a provincial fiefdom is that you can still blame your problems on the feds while still controlling everything within the province.

It's adorable to think that Alberta's response will be anything but "4 MORE YEARS!"

Good ole free-market conservatives.

This will most likely use iron from Canada.

Many receiving ports have not seen the impact of oil disruption yet. Tankers that were at sea at the time of the closure are only now arriving at their destinations. It's after that that scarcity will take effect and prices will skyrocket.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/land-deal-between-mraiche-company-and-alberta-government-under-auditor-general-investigation

This is a framework designed for theft/fraud on a truly massive scale. Corruption is nothing new for any level of government, but it's rare - and really tells you what they think of voter intelligence - to basically have a financial misdeeds bank account.

The decades-long tantrum over the NEP has been based on revisionist history.

This is not common phrasing in Alberta political discourse. It's technically explainable and intentionally misleading. Let's not be naive.

And it's working. I saw a post on LinkedIn about how the $1B given to "illegals" for healthcare could have paid for 2.4 million square feet of hospital space. Lots of likes and supportive comments, and no one daring to question the figures. Sure. Hospital space more than 4.5x the size of the...

I stared at that sentence in disbelief for a while when I first read it. That's the kind of syntax that'll get someone elected president.

I don't recall canelling the SW hospital being part of the UCP platform. The NDP found a way to get that project going.

What do you think the Sheriffs are for?