Alberta

May 29, 2023 — Musing on Election Day You bought, you got it …. click here to access this column on Substack If you want to hire or you need to fire, do it on a Monday ( this applies, especially when it’s Election Day) https://markmusing.substack.com/p/you-bought-it-you-got-it

A glimpse into the UCP “fix” for health care. As Alberta Canada’s provincial election nears its close, an insider in the ruling UCP party contacted me off the record about the party’s plans for health care after the election is over (and assuming they win). I am unable to verify with certainty, and can share no details about this…

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If you had told me this when I was a child. I would never have believed you. — This morning I woke to get ready to go for a picnic. The first thing I did was to check to see if the air outside was breathable. Then I stopped to wonder. Am I dreaming? …

Driving through central Alberta is quintessential prairie. The big skies, aspen groves, golden wheat fields and sunlit canola crops are reminiscent of a W.O. Mitchell novel. …

The wildfires currently ravaging Alberta come at a tricky time, namely right in the middle of a provincial election campaign. Premier Danielle Smith and Public Safety and Emergency Services Minister Mike Ellis both have to wear two hats right now. On the one hand, they’re involved in trying to get…

Alberta votes this Monday, May 29, to decide who will lead the province for the next four years. Opinion polls currently show Alberta NDP and the United Conservative Party as essentially tied, though according to analysts, the UCP has a clearer path to victory in key battleground ridings. ICTC combed…

Gordon Lightfoot died yesterday. But when I was a kid he lived in our house. Every day of my childhood his sonorous baritone and jangling strums rang through our home. …

The American Invasion (of Canada) — Camp Zero is one of those books that has inevitably gotten compared to Emily St. John Mandel’s now classic novel Station Eleven. And the jaded reader could sigh at this because there has been a lion’s share of books that have been influenced directly by Station Eleven: The Wolves of…