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2012年1月3日 · Dig, baby, dig! Energy Minister Brian Jean lifts ban on coal exploration on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies In a Jan. 15 letter to the Chairman of the Alberta Energy Regulator, Environment Minister Brian Jean lifted the ban on coal exploration on the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains that was put in place after intense public pressure on Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party ...
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1 天前 · Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s refusal to sign the joint statement in which all other provincial and territorial premiers agreed to a co-ordinated response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian exports significantly undermined Canada’s bargaining position, Canada’s former chief trade negotiator says.
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2024年12月18日 · Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre (Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, Wikimedia Commons). And if Mr. Trudeau surprises everyone and asks the Governor General to call an election, the apparently inevitable ascent of Mr. Poilievre to the PMO would potentially be even worse news for the separatists in Ms. Smith’s office, if not for the ones expected to show up momentarily in Quebec City.
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2025年1月16日 · In a Jan. 15 letter to the Chairman of the Alberta Energy Regulator, Environment Minister Brian Jean lifted the ban on coal exploration on the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains that was put in place after intense public pressure on Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government in February 2021.
Prime minister announces two Alberta Senate appointments; UCP …
2024年8月31日 · Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced two long-anticipated Alberta appointments to the Senate of Canada this morning. Kristopher Wells of St. Albert is a post-secondary educator and champion of Alberta’s 2SLGBTQI+ community; Daryl Fridhandler is Calgary lawyer with longstanding ties to the Liberal Party of Canada. The PM’s news release didn’t provide a lot of information […]
‘Not one shred of evidence’ bill’s arbitrary measures are needed; …
2024年5月26日 · Does Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver have any idea how many Albertans could be denied the right to vote in the next general election because of the United Conservative Party’s planned changes to provincial voting rules in Bill 20, the Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2024?. A demonstrator at Saturday’s Enough is Enough rally in Edmonton tallies up some of the UCP’s more ...
Alberta pulls plug (again) on regional planning – a big win for the ...
2024年11月26日 · The Edmonton and Calgary regional metropolitan boards were formally established in 2017.. Former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, who tried to restore some sanity to regional planning in Alberta (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). And it even seemed to be working for a while, even though the Sprawl Cabal – the term is thought to have been coined by former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi – hated it ...
The Municipal Government Act already gives the government …
2024年4月29日 · In the words of a Global News report at the time, the inquiry “found the council was not following laws, had bad spending practises and biased decision making.”. Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). More recently, late last year, the UCP Government fired the mayor, three councillors, and some city officials in Chestermere, a community of 22,000 ...
Alberta’s Legislature shudders back to life this afternoon – what …
2023年10月30日 · The headline on the government’s news release Friday about the inaugural session of the 31 st Legislature, the first since the May 29 election, says MLAs will reconvene “with legislation geared towards providing financial protection and securing Albertans’ interests.”. Now there’s a heavily coded phrase if ever I heard one that ought to send Halloween chills up and down your spines ...
Limiting debate, UCP rams through ‘Sovereignty Act in the wee …
2022年12月9日 · The government’s use of time limits on debate was no surprise. The Sovereignty Act – no matter what it ended up saying – is a key part of the Smith Government’s re-election strategy.. Premier Smith will be anxious to start using it to pick fights with Ottawa and paint the NDP Opposition as anti-Alberta for voting against what …