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Alberta Provincial Politics

If an election was held today, who would you vote for?

  • UCP

    Votes: 9 13.8%

  • NDP

    Votes: 47 72.3%

  • Liberal

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Alberta Party

    Votes: 4 6.2%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 5 7.7%
  • Total voters
    65
I would like to see the NDP focus more on infrastructure, and municipal infrastructure in particular and I think it would be a winning issue for them To say the least, it's a huge weakness of the UCP. Their rail plan looks good on paper but is worthless without real funding commitments (and I have no faith that the UCP has any intention of putting any money into the rail plan). Picking fights with the big cities through constant attacks on municipal jurisdiction, lack of transit funding, no affordable housing funding, starving the municipalities of revenue raising power, etc.are issues that i would think and hope resonate with Calgary voters. Hopefully Nenshi as a former mayor will be able to bring these issues front and centre. It would also help them accomplish the seat wins in Calgary they will need if they are to form government.
 
Agreed. In the end this next election will be all about getting those Calgary ridings. I don't believe anything will change for the rest of the province.
 

To me, it is obvious Edmonton and Calgary each need one of the two new ridings. Could be some interesting new boundaries...

"... the province is adding two new ridings, increasing the total number of seats in the legislature from 87 to 89.

Nine constituencies in Alberta are currently more than 25 per cent above the average size: Calgary-Buffalo, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-North East, Calgary-Shaw, Calgary-South East, Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-South, Edmonton-South West, and Airdrie-Cochrane.

The commission, chaired by Justice Miller and made up of members appointed by both government and opposition parties, is expected to release an interim report in October. A final report is expected by March 2026."

Part of the reason I think Smith calls an election early is to avoid having two new ridings in cities to compete in. Although I guess I could see the NDP and UCP splitting the Edmonton and Calgary riding so it could be a wash.
 
Hilarious (but not at all surprising) that someone who throws weekly temper tantrums about the feds has such thin skin.
 
If it doesn't involve people possibly losing their jobs and or money people won't really care though. When thinking, will this be what brings her down a couple pegs you have to ask yourself, will people lose their job or will people's bank accounts suffer? If the answer is no, people will not care.
 
Mountain Man said:
Ms. Trump wants to charge people $100 for a covid shot now, like making people pay for it will undo the damage from the lockdowns a couple years ago? Words can't express how much I hate this government!!
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I'm all for containing waste, but the way to do that is have people sign up, pay a $100 deposit, which they get back once they receive the shots. The government gets to order only shots that are needed, and people that want the vaccine can get it. Win-win. It's also ridiculous to hear the premier saying the cost of the vaccines can eliminate the entire knee/hip replacement backlog. So, we're not doing the vaccines, when should I expect that backlog to be at 0??
 
trtcttc said:
I'm all for containing waste, but the way to do that is have people sign up, pay a $100 deposit, which they get back once they receive the shots. The government gets to order only shots that are needed, and people that want the vaccine can get it. Win-win. It's also ridiculous to hear the premier saying the cost of the vaccines can eliminate the entire knee/hip replacement backlog. So, we're not doing the vaccines, when should I expect that backlog to be at 0??
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We don't save money when vaccine rates drop due to the difficulty and cost to get one and leads to more cases, including more hospitalizations, complications and deaths - all of which are outcomes many times more costly to the public than any "vaccine waste" costs. Making vaccine access easy to the broad population is the core part of preventative medicine which is torpedoed by this approach.

Smith's position is that these higher actual costs - a sicker population, more citizens dead and spending more money in the long-run for far more expensive medical interventions that could have been prevented - are worth it, because they are easier to hide in a complex medical system and she can seem anti-vaccine to the people who matter to her.

With a mostly UCP-aligned media system, it'll be pretty easy to push to a low-information public next year that the higher-than-expected hospitalization costs and more preventable deaths is really an example of AHS' "mis-management" instead of government direction to not prevent disease. Yet more evidence to push to reform/privatize the system more.

An ounce of ideology is worth far more than a pound of prevention or a tonne of a cure, to distort the expression a bit to fit this government's approach.

Mountain Man said:
How many flu shots are wasted every year? should we pay for those too? I don't buy for one second this is about waste. This is pure politics, Covid is still a boogieman to her "freedom loving" base and she is just pandering to them .
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The number of vaccines wasted last was given to be $40 or $50M, so about half of the cost of that shady sole-sourced Tylenol scam for her buddy which cost some $80M.

Note the waste she's referencing is from 2024, a year where AHS was all by banned from advertising or promoting the vaccine program in any way.
 
CBBarnett said:
Making vaccine access easy to the broad population is the core part of preventative medicine
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This is basic healthcare that is even practiced in the developing world, if we, a very well-off nation, continue to take preventative care for granted then we deserve what we get.
 
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