Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[CBH99]

Alberta is spending $14 million on an advisory panel to try and drum up a pipeline proposal, sounds par for the course, Smith and co. love their advisory panels. No promises this will even lead to a pipeline proposal from industry

To be fair, $14 million is literally a rounding error to most governments - especially the Alberta government

(Remember about 8 or 9 years ago, I think, when the City of Calgary was in the hole for something like $300M? I asked our good family friend about it at the time - he was the Chief Litigator for the City of Calgary at the time - and he said the amount of revenue the city brings in can swing wildly month to month by millions of dollars & not to fret about it. I wasn't sold, but sure enough 2 months later the city had a surplus)



Think of it as an investment. If successful, the result will be a whole lot more than $14M for the province - and if not, it's just the cost of doing business

 

[brihard]

So basically we have a Premiers squabble over the very initial concept of a plan, but nothing remotely close to a fleshed out project with a route, industry partners, etc… Way too early for anyone to be getting fired up about much of anything yet.

 

[MilEME09]

So basically we have a Premiers squabble over the very initial concept of a plan, but nothing remotely close to a fleshed out project with a route, industry partners, etc… Way too early for anyone to be getting fired up about much of anything yet.

and BC FN have already come out and said no, to the surprise of no one. Unfortunately Alberta loves to keep trying the same thing over and over again, trying to get a different result. It may not be best, but churchill is likely our best bet to get a project built. Otherwise get a pipeline to the great lakes and export from there.

 

[Quirky]

BC FN have already come out and said no

I like how we have groups of people in canada who are above governments, yet still rely on them for survival. What a joke.

 

[MilEME09]

Alberta record first death from measles, a grim milestone from such a large number of cases

Albertan dies from measles

An Albertan has died from complications due to measles, government data released Thursday says.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[Jarnhamar]

Alberta record first death from measles, a grim milestone from such a large number of cases

Albertan dies from measles

An Albertan has died from complications due to measles, government data released Thursday says.

www.ctvnews.ca

Do you think the mother deserves some kind of rebuke for not getting vaccinated or are you just making mention of the death?

 

[MilEME09]

Do you think the mother deserves some kind of rebuke for not getting vaccinated or are you just making mention of the death?

didn't think I seem the type to kick someone when they were down. I am simply noting it

 

[Remius]

Do you think the mother deserves some kind of rebuke for not getting vaccinated or are you just making mention of the death?

Not sure how you made that leap.

The article does not mention any details or the circumstances of the mother. She could have been immunized or immunocompromised. It does not say.

The fact is that we went from a country that went from “eliminated” status to back on table. And Alberta having the highest count of cases in the country.

 

[Maxman1]

Not sure how this relates to the federal government.

 

[Jarnhamar]

didn't think I seem the type to kick someone when they were down. I am simply noting it

Sorry MilEME no offense intended. You've previously been critical of Alberta and the Alberta government, and have commented about people not being vaccinated in Alberta.
I wasn't sure what the connection to the Liberal government was.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Not sure how you made that leap.

See my response to MilEME above.

The fact is that we went from a country that went from “eliminated” status to back on table. And Alberta having the highest count of cases in the country.

Ontario has the highest count of cases in the country.

 

[Remius]

See my response to MilEME above.


Ontario has the highest count of cases in the country.

Correct. I should have said the highest concentration and count per capita. By far.

 

[brihard]

Regardless of which province it happens in, in Canada in 2025 absolutely nobody should be dying of friggin’ measles. We defeated that disease with sound public health policy, yet somehow we’ve invited it back onto the pitch. That’s absurd.

 

[dapaterson]

See my response to MilEME above.


Ontario has the highest count of cases in the country.

Counts are one measure.

Percentage of population is a more meaningful measure.

That said, the current Ontario government is terrible from a public health perspective.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Correct. I should have said the highest concentration and count per capita. By far.

Definitely. 2.1 times higher than Ontario.

It's a pretty interesting rabbit hole to go down regarding body autonomy vs collective responsibility.

 

[brihard]

Counts are one measure.

Percentage of population is a more meaningful measure.

That said, the current Ontario government is terrible from a public health perspective.

I would add further that aggregating within a simple provincial border hits its limit of utility pretty quickly. While there is value at looking at provincial policy approaches written large, you can easily go too far in generalizing along those lines. Any meaningful qualitative work on public health needs to dig deeper and look at whether there are smaller coherent sub-populations that show up disproportionately in the data one way or another. If certain more homogeneous sub groups are more resistant to given public health policy approaches, that then becomes a more tangibly workable problem.

 

[Remius]

Definitely. 2.1 times higher than Ontario.

It's a pretty interesting rabbit hole to go down regarding body autonomy vs collective responsibility.

It’s a combination of a variety of things. Poor public health policy, misinformation, disinformation, external environmental factors, hesitancy, politics, ideology, etc etc

 

[Jarnhamar]

It’s a combination of a variety of things. Poor public health policy, misinformation, disinformation, external environmental factors, hesitancy, politics, ideology, etc etc

I completely agree. It's interesting how the issue of body autonomy changes simply due to social influences.