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Read more: NDP challenges Alberta Premier Smith to explain whether she shares ‘extremist views’ The election is not set to formally begin for two more weeks, and Smith invoked the new rule, not at a United Conservative Party event, but at a government-funded media availability to unveil a new panel to address multicultural issues.The Opposition NDP responded quickly, promising to answer any and all questions put to them, including followups.“Leaders take questions — it’s part of the job,” NDP Leader Rachel Notley said on social media.“If Danielle Smith isn’t willing to explain herself to Albertans, she shouldn’t be premier. Albertans deserve better.”Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi also weighed in on social media.“Folks, this is really wrong,” said Nenshi.

United Conservative Party win in the provincial election.Global News is projecting a UCP majority government.Smith was also re-elected in Brooks-Medicine Hat, where she’s been MLA since the November 2022 byelection.Smith has been leader of the UCP since succeeding Jason Kenney in October 2022.The United Conservatives ran on a campaign of public safety and affordability measures like a new tax bracket and extending the existing fuel tax savings.Both the UCP and its opponent Alberta NDP tried to position themselves as the more trustworthy party.Bill 1 for a second UCP term, dubbed the “Taxpayer Protection Act,” would ensure no provincial government can increase personal or business taxes without a referendum.This becomes the second term of a UCP government in Alberta.Her seven months as UCP leader aren’t the only experience Smith has had at the head of an Alberta political party. She was elected leader of the Wildrose Party in October 2009 and became leader of the Official Opposition in the 2012 provincial election.Two years later, Smith, then-deputy leader Rob Anderson, and seven other Wildrose MLAs, crossed the floor to join the Progressive Conservatives.After not getting the 2015 PC nomination in Highwood, Smith went on to host a talk show on Corus Radio, from which she resigned in February 2021.Smith would briefly be president of the Alberta Enterprise Group before announcing her bid to be UCP leader in May 2022.Smith came under fire during the election for her past comments about health care, pandemic policy, and substance abuse treatment.

Reaction to the $26 billion Rogers-Shaw merger in Alberta was mixed on the day it was announced.

COVID-19 in the province.It is removing a time-based recommendation for COVID-19 isolation. Instead, the province is advising people to stay home until “you feel better.”The roll-out for additional bivalent booster doses for some Albertans will begin next month.And the province is moving to a rapid antigen-based testing regime, shuttering testing centres in ten days.“Changes to COVID-19 testing and isolation recommendations are coming this spring, as Alberta continues to move to a more sustainable approach to COVID-19,” health ministry spokesperson Scott Johnston said in an email.

Read more: Manning to cover off Smith’s undelivered Alberta public health panel in pandemic review Read next: Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists Mintz is the president’s fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and advises and writes on tax, business and health policy.He and the board were fired by Smith in November. She said they failed Albertans during the pandemic by failing to scale up hospital capacity as promised, forcing the government to impose what Smith has termed freedom-busting health restrictions.The board members were replaced by an administrator.

Danielle Smith, considered one of the front-runners in the United Conservative Party leadership race, faced sharp criticism Wednesday from debate rivals over her Alberta sovereignty plan and controversial comments on cancer.

COVID-19 public health orders, following another weekend of anti-mask protesting in the city.Two tickets were issued Tuesday for breaking public health orders at rallies on the weekend. And three additional tickets were handed out to event organizers, including fines for holding an event without a permit and attaching signs to trees.The city said the weekend’s events “remain under investigation.” ‘We will go after these people’: Calgary getting more enforcement under new public health orders The Calgary Police Service and city bylaw officers have issued a total of 18 tickets for violating the orders under the Public Health Act: seven of which were given out in the last three.

new measures announced on Nov. 24.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Kenney said the province’s R value must be below one by Dec.

COVID-19.Sorry for the video quality. But here’s another angle from the front.

Tom Sampson, chief of Calgary Emergency Management Agency, retires Sampson provided leadership during catastrophic events like the 2011 Slave Lake wildfires, the 2013 floods in Calgary and the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires.Sampson’s last day with the city is Monday, after which he said he plans to depart to B.C. to provide medical care for his sister and brother-in-law.The CEMA chief and mayor will also be providing an update on the city’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic during Friday’s news conference.

Alberta budget 2020 mired in red ink, but government to put ‘even finer focus on job creation’ That’s almost $3 billion less than projected at the first update in August, but still exponentially larger than the $6.8-billion deficit announced by Toews when he first presented the budget in February.But Toews says there is hope on the horizon, while cautioning events are still fluid and the path back will be long.Revenue is expected to reach $41.4 billion, almost $3 billion higher than last quarter due to improved forecasts for resource and gaming revenues, investment income and federal transfers.

New restrictions announced for Alberta as 860 COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths reported Thursday “Jason Kenney is keeping Albertans in the dark,” Shepherd said Friday.“We don’t have an explanation for why they chose those particular businesses.“If this premier won’t take it seriously (enough) that he’s willing to communicate openly and honestly with the people of Alberta, then we’re going to get what we have now, where we have, unfortunately, too low a level of compliance of even the most basic of things.”COVID-19 cases have been rising alarmingly for weeks in Alberta. The caseload has overwhelmed contact tracing and strained the health-care system.Alberta set a sobering single-day record Friday with 1,155 new cases.

As CBC first reported, IFR Workwear (along with Lyn Radford and company founder Reg Radford) has donated more than $10,000 to the Progressive Conservatives (the party that later merged with the Wildrose Party to form the UCP) in Alberta since 2006, according to financial disclosure documents.Reg also donated $2,000 specifically to Education Minister Adriana LeGrange’s 2019 election campaign in which she ran as a UCP candidate.Lyn said she believes IFR was chosen because of the quality of its masks, not political bias.“We did not reach out to the province to tell them that we have these masks,” she said.“It was one of our distributors that got the contract with the province.”Lyn would not name the distributor, citing privacy policies, but

COVID-19 pandemic.In addition to the $25 million dedicated to helping homeless populations back in March, on Wednesday the government stated it has now allocated an additional $48 million to the cause.

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The Alberta Energy Regulator, which had suspended reporting and monitoring in the oilpatch, says it is also returning to normal monitoring, testing, and regulatory processes, which include opportunities for public feedback on project applications.

Support workers and caregivers in Alberta say people with disabilities are being largely overlooked during this pandemic due to the lack of support and funding they are receiving.

As part of Alberta’s relaunch strategy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the province has said certain businesses — including hair salons and barbers — could open as early as Thursday, May 14, but the owners of one Lethbridge salon believe it would be irresponsible to open that soon.

The province is offering up to $17.8 million in grants to child care centres and approved family day homes, through a phased approach, as they prepare to open as part of Alberta’s relaunch strategy.

The United Conservative Party tabled a bill in the Alberta legislature Wednesday, meant to support electricity and natural gas providers in the province through COVID-19 utility payment deferrals.

No matter the industry, COVID-19 is having an impact, but when it comes to not only your livelihood but animal welfare, the urgency is even greater.

While the provincial government is asking residents to practise social-distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s also encouraging the public to learn a little more about the wildlife they share the province with.

As Albertans continue to self-isolate at home, the province and local homeless shelters are making sure Calgary’s most vulnerable citizens also have the space they need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kinsmen Sports Centre — which, along with all rec centres, is closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 — is being used as an overnight shelter for Edmonton’s most vulnerable.

After a motion on March 17, government officials announced Thursday the Alberta legislature would be adjourned until Friday at 10 a.m.