Alberta Politics

[TAS]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-government-low-income-transit-pass-funding-1.7190657

A sliver of good news at least

What a joke though if you read the story - or just the quote below the headline.

Government says 'it is clear that the cities are not able to pay for their full programs'

It should be : "UCP continues to throw their cities under the bus!"

 

[IanO]

Update on municipal low-income transit pass program: Minister Nixon​

May 01, 2024 Media inquiries
Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services Jason Nixon issued the following statement after speaking with Calgary and Edmonton mayors:
“Alberta’s government understands the need to support low-income Albertans. That’s why we provide direct transit subsidies to Albertans on income support and AISH in communities across the province, including Calgary and Edmonton.
“Calgary and Edmonton also run their own transit program, which the province subsidizes.
“Following conversations with the two largest cities, it is clear that the cities are not able to pay for their full programs at this time. As a result, Alberta’s government will continue to extend this funding to the cities and work with them to ensure their low-income transit program continues to be funded in the future.”

 

[Kosy123]

What a joke though if you read the story - or just the quote below the headline.

Government says 'it is clear that the cities are not able to pay for their full programs'

It should be : "UCP continues to throw their cities under the bus!"

BECAUSE YOU DEFUNDED US. We'd be better off lead by chipmunks.

 

[Gus Haynes]

Danielle Smith explicitly promised that she would "invest in low income transit passes" when she was trying desperately to get elected. Why wouldn't the province's major population centres take her at her word? Would she prefer that we treat her like the liar that she is, going forward?

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

A senior Alberta official found the renewables pause ‘very troubling.’ He was pressured to support it anyway | The Narwhal

Internal emails show the head of the Alberta Electric System Operator was 'not comfortable' with government’s plan to pause renewables. He was told to 'support the minister without reservation'

thenarwhal.ca

I don't see any way this can be considered pro-business or good governance. More evidence the move to pause renewables was pure pettiness to attack an industry they don't like.

 

[MacLac]

BECAUSE YOU DEFUNDED US. We'd be better off lead by chipmunks.

It also reads as the worst kind of apology you can give, "I'm sorry that you found my comments insensitive or distasteful....so for that, I am sorry." lol

 

[MacLac]

Keep it up Danni! We'll just chalk this up as another FAIL against you and your BS Party. Keep 'em coming so that even one day your "Central Albertan red-neck yahoos" will wake up and find that you're no different than Trump.....yee-haw!!!!

 

[Glenco]

A senior Alberta official found the renewables pause ‘very troubling.’ He was pressured to support it anyway | The Narwhal

Internal emails show the head of the Alberta Electric System Operator was 'not comfortable' with government’s plan to pause renewables. He was told to 'support the minister without reservation'

thenarwhal.ca

I don't see any way this can be considered pro-business or good governance. More evidence the move to pause renewables was pure pettiness to attack an industry they don't like.

The gift that keeps on giving.

 

[Gronk!]

From the President’s Desk: The University of Alberta and Bill 18

Reaffirming our commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom at the U of A.

www.ualberta.ca

 

[TAS]

UCP government really on a roll this week with bad policy, bad decisions and bad news.

Lots of money into the economy gone and opportunities at alternative energy delayed, delayed, delayed.

Varcoe: TransAlta shelves wind project, pauses three other developments, amid upheaval in Alberta power market,

Varcoe: TransAlta Corp. cancels one renewable project due to new buffer zone, pauses three other greenfield power developments in Alberta.

calgaryherald.com

 

[Gronk!]

Edmonton mayor, Alberta government meet to talk about Sohi’s 6-page funding letter | Globalnews.ca

There could soon be movement on money Edmonton says it is owed by the Alberta government, Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said after meeting with Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver.

globalnews.ca

Here is Mayor Sohi's April 2 letter to the Premier. I'm almost certain she didn't read the letter but simply used it to line her birdcage.

https://assets-global.website-files.com/632a02df58ca4bfbe981a299/660c47060870276b047382d2_April%202%20Mayor%20Letter%20on%20Provincial%20Underfunding.pdf

 

[Gronk!]

The clown show continues

The unravelling of Danielle Smith's case for Alberta's renewables pause​

Internal documents contradict premier's claims; industry says it has bigger concerns​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-renewables-pause-moratorium-aeso-foip-1.7196943

 

[Whattagame]

The UCP will be giving themselves an extra 5 months in office.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/po...-push-fixed-election-date-to-october-from-may

 

[trevorhayden]

I have a feeling they won't last that long.

 

[EtoV]

The UCP will be giving themselves an extra 5 months in office.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/po...-push-fixed-election-date-to-october-from-may

They won't acknowledge climate change or the effects of it, but they will conveniently use the increase in wildfires to justify staying in office longer.

The UCP motto, only recognize reality when it's convenient.