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5 days ago | rabble.ca | David J. Climenhaga

According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s only enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country to keep a separatist party from becoming as successful as the Bloc Québécois. “We do not want a permanent feature of Alberta politics to be parties that send representatives to Ottawa whose sole purpose is to break up the country,” Smith said yesterday in the Legislature in response to a question by Opposition Leader Christina Gray.

5 days ago | rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn

We celebrate May Day annually as a worker’s  holiday, (despite the attempt by business class voices to replace it with the anodyne Labour Day in September), an opportunity to count our successes and challenges in the age-old fight for worker rights. We remember one of our highest principles, that an injury to one is an injury to all. One vital way to honor that principle is by taking concrete action in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

5 days ago | rabble.ca | Sarah Sahagian

When I got pregnant, I was prepared for stretch marks but not the mark pregnancy would leave on my mental health. Before conceiving, I was diagnosed with both depression and anxiety (I’ve always been an overachiever!). And while friends had confided that pregnancy was a particularly trying time, I naively thought it couldn’t get much worse for me. By the time of my pregnancy, I had a not-inconsiderable history of depression.

6 days ago | rabble.ca | David J. Climenhaga

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called a news conference to tell the impertinent journalists who showed up why, as a strong believer in Canadian Confederation, she intends to do whatever she can to ensure her province’s loony separatists get to have a secession referendum as soon as possible.

6 days ago | rabble.ca | David J. Climenhaga

Having been scooped by the CBC, Nathan Cooper, who has been the Speaker of the Alberta Legislature since 2019 and United Conservative Party (UCP) MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills since 2015, admitted that the broadcaster had it right and Premier Danielle Smith has asked him to move to Washington to serve in the pretentiously titled position of the province’s “Senior Representative to the United States.” In its scoop, the CBC described the outgoing Speaker’s new job as a “diplomatic post.”...