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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2022 7:48 am
 


Alberta government took in hundreds of millions in additional tax dollars, new report says

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Alberta's provincial government has been bringing in hundreds of millions of additional tax revenues since deciding to hit pause on indexation, according to a new report.

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy report says indexation of tax brackets is done as a response to inflation.

"As incomes rise to keep pace with inflation, income tax thresholds must also rise to avoid 'bracket creep,'" said the report released on Tuesday.

"That is, if the income tax thresholds are not indexed to inflation, an increase in income will result in higher taxes paid by the taxpayer even though their purchasing power has not changed."

As the report notes, the UCP government announced in its 2019 budget that it would "temporarily pause indexation of non-refundable tax credits and tax bracket thresholds."



I bet people feel better now that the gas tax is halted, and electricity rebates are extended to December.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 11:23 am
 


Kenney hosts Premier's Stampede pancake breakfast today in Calgary, announces new 'Alberta Day'


Now we just have to find out who asked.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:26 am
 


Behind the COVID curtain: formerly confidential Alberta government documents made public


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The Provincial Court of Alberta released documents on Wednesday that provide the public a glimpse behind the curtain on how the UCP government decided when to begin removing Alberta’s COVID-19 restrictions in February.

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The document states that Alberta would be leading the way into the endemic phase with a “gradual removal of public health measures” to decrease risk.

However, the document warns that “lifting restrictions should begin only once pressures on the health-care system have sufficiently eased and are likely to continue easing.”

“From my perspective, it clearly shows that their eyes were focused clearly on politics, especially their narrow self-interest and politics, and not where it should have been, which is on public safety, especially for our kids,” said Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour.

As requested by the provincial government, Hinshaw provided recommendations for going forward with lifting all restrictions, which included ramping up the capacity of the health-care system as it was going to become overwhelmed, and warning of additional waves as a result of increased exposure.

“She was right about all of her warnings and they just ignored them. And now we’re paying the price,” McGowan said.



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Summer fun: Top five Edmonton patios to inhale exhaust


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Alberta victim services fund will now be used solely to support victims of crime

So, what were they using the victim surcharge to pay for? Courts. Prosecutors. The things they defunded, and re-directed these funds to cover. But they aren't going to restore any funding.

"Please thank us for fixing a problem we created!" - UCP


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 11:33 am
 


AIMCo, Alberta's public pension manager, out as owner of European theatre chaint

Swell, that could be another billion they pissed away... :evil:


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:04 am
 


Albertans favour NDP no matter who leads UCP, poll finds


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The most likely next premier of Alberta is ....... batshit insane. 8O

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6531883

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It's not a candidate's ideal day on the campaign trail when one must issue a video that takes pains to assert that, no, you did not intend to besmirch cancer patients and survivors in your video from a few days ago.

Danielle Smith, who seems to lead the race to become United Conservative Party leader and then Alberta's premier in October, got into the factually-dubious murk in a lengthy campaign video discussion with a naturopath about cancer being preventable and "completely within your control" until the disease reaches Stage 4.

Outrage ensued from the NDP ("cruel and wrong," said Rachel Notley) and UCP leadership rivals ("irresponsible" — Travis Toews, "hurtful" — Brian Jean), as well as medical practitioners and those who've survived cancer or lost loved ones to it.

When Smith tried to clarify her comments, she didn't walk them back; rather, she reiterated that the "first three stages of cancer are more controllable in terms of what complete care is available to a patient," and insisted that mainstream medicine and naturopathy alike agreed with this point.

We can dissect these comments shortly, but know what's clearly more preventable? Getting into this sticky situation by injecting alternative or contrarian medical arguments into a political discussion.

But this is par for the course with Smith, going back a few years.

Her Twitter feed was completely within her control in the early days of the COVID pandemic, when she used a single study and something she'd read on some blog to proclaim that "hydroxychloroquine cures 100 per cent of coronavirus patients within six days of treatment." That would later be proven quite wrong. The bosses of her AM talk radio show took action, and Smith apologized and deleted that tweet.

Smith later gained more control of her own messaging by leaving Global News' radio show. On an online podcast, she'd also give lengthy airing to doctors she reported she wasn't allowed to host on her mainstream program — men who doubted much of the science of COVID, including one who called it "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated." She'd also advocate for wider use of ivermectin as coronavirus treatment, though it remained unapproved and would later be discredited and debunked.

Her own apparent curiosity on the fringes of established medical science brought her here, well before Smith was in a leadership race and cultivating a base of the same sort of pandemic-rule skeptics and detractors who rose up against Premier Jason Kenney's leadership of the UCP.

She now speaks often of the "vaccine choice movement," which would include anti-vaxxers and those forced reluctantly to get vaccines due to mandates. At a Calgary rally, she invited as her special guest Theo Fleury, the conspiracy-minded former hockey player who told her crowd the trauma from his sexual abuse was akin to the trauma of government pandemic rules.

Smith's supporters cheered for Fleury's message, and for hers.

These positions stray from the mainstream of Alberta opinion — and expertise — as does her "sovereignty act" proposal to stop enforcing in this province any federal laws a Premier Smith-led government deems run afoul of Alberta's jurisdiction.

But Smith doesn't need most Albertans to buy into her agenda. She just needs a select number, in the tens of thousands, to be UCP members by Aug. 12 and vote for her.


I was thinking that Smith is Alberta's Sarah Palin but in hindsight, given her statements lately, that's actually unfair to Sarah Palin. Smith is Alberta's Marjorie Taylor Greene.

And she's going to win too. :|


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The most likely next premier of Alberta is ....... batshit insane. 8O

I was thinking that Smith is Alberta's Sarah Palin but in hindsight, given her statements lately, that's actually unfair to Sarah Palin. Smith is Alberta's Marjorie Taylor Greene.

And she's going to win too. :|


Right? All the candidates are a few bricks short of a load, but Smith really adds that 'crazy cat lady' vibe to everything.

But that's OK, Albertans favour the NDP in the next election, no matter who the UCP sentence to lead them into failure.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:23 am
 


Isn't there now a recall law on the books? If she gets in, the NDP WILL form the next government.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:40 am
 


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Isn't there now a recall law on the books? If she gets in, the NDP WILL form the next government.


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Recall law. "If voting mattered, they would outlaw it." They aren't going to provide an actually effective method of holding them to account.

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You would need to collect the signatures of 40 per cent of eligible voters in the riding, or in this particular case about 6,500 people, within 60 days. Then there'd be a recall vote where a simple majority result would remove the MLA from his seat. That would lead to a third vote — a byelection — to fill the vacant seat.

The process could not start within 18 months of the last general election or within six months of the next one. That leaves a window of about 24 months to get things done.

It's possible but not likely. Under British Columbia's recall legislation, in place since 1995, there have been 26 recall petitions with only six making their way to Elections B.C. Five of those were rejected and one approved. The one MLA facing dismissal resigned before he could be officially booted out by recall.

It would seem recall legislation is more symbolic than pragmatic.


Here's why Alberta's recall legislation is as mythical as Bigfoot


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:36 am
 


Here's to another NDP government in May.


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