Lipstick on a Pig?
“So that's why this proposal is a name change. We're not saying to formally split from the federal party, because I think there is value in being able to share it resources and share expertise between the various NDP in the country. I think that's useful,” Malkinson explained.
Despite publicly putting some distance between itself and its Ottawa cousins, the Alberta NDP has relied heavily on national NDP luminaries like Brian Topp and Nathan Rotman to run its election campaigns. Even the federal NDP’s national director Anne McGrath ran the Premier’s McDougall Centre office when Notley was premier and was the Alberta NDP candidate in Calgary-Varsity in 2019.
https://daveberta.substack.com/p/alberta-ndp-name-change-pushed-by
Friggers…..
The federal government has launched an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada to defend its use of the Emergencies Act in 2022 in response to the Freedom Convoy.
The Federal Court of Appeal rejected in January Ottawa’s appeal against a 2024 lower court decision after finding the lower court had “correctly determined” the declaration of a public order emergency was unreasonable and that parts of the order infringed on Charter rights related to the freedom of expression.
Ottawa filed an application on March 17 to have an appeal heard at the Supreme Court, arguing that the lower courts had incorrectly reviewed the use of the Emergencies Act, which the government said was used because it believed the Freedom Convoy protest of 2022 presented a threat to Canada’s national security.
Court Case
The court action was launched by some of the protesters and civil liberties groups who had argued the federal government’s response violated Charter rights, and that actions such as freezing the bank ...
WHAT YOUR COVID BOOSTER DID TO YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
A plain-language guide to what the research now shows
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