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During the 2013 election, the Liberals campaigned on a pledge to have a doctor for every Nova Scotian within three years.
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Decision to give Notley a Blackfoot name, headdress at Lethbridge event criticized | Globalnews.ca
Premier Rachel Notley was given the Blackfoot name Aksitooskitsiphpaki, which means “Braveheart Woman.”
“It is such a tremendous honour for me to have been invited here by the leadership of the Blackfoot Confederacy, to have been honoured by the elders and to have been honoured with this incredible name,” Notley said Saturday.
Jason Goodstriker, the chief electoral officer of the Assembly of First Nations of Alberta, said it’s not about politics.
“It was just something that we like to do to prepare our leaders of the political party. Regardless of partisan business, we just like to have our leaders prepared as they go forward to represent us and Albertans,” he said.
The decision to give Notley a Blackfoot name and headdress is drawing criticism on social media.
“I don’t agree, I feel like it’s a slap in the face to First Nations people giving headdress to politicians that don’t care of our people,” Facebook user Lilian Crowshoe posted. “To them we are not human — white privilege at its best.”
“Who was consulted about this decision?” Dee Brown posted. “I’m pretty sure the general consensus of the population strongly disagrees about honouring a politician who has forsaken so many of our people.”
Notley responded to criticism by saying: “I understand that, within the community, there’s debate on this practice. I think that’s a debate that should happen within the community. When we were invited by the leadership and by the elders, we wanted to honour that invitation and so we did.
“I hope the conversation carries on, and all I want to do is make sure we honour the gift that we’ve been given.”
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Notley responded to criticism by saying: “I understand that, within the
community, there’s debate on this practice. I think that’s a debate that
should happen within the community. When we were invited by the
leadership and by the elders, we wanted to honour that invitation and so
we did.
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“We have no intention of retroactively cancelling good faith contracts,” Kenney told reporters on Sunday. “My commitment last night was for a future United Conservative government to no longer provide subsidies to uneconomic wind and solar power generation, because every additional kilowatt-hour of higher uneconomic wind and solar generated power raises the rates for Albertans.”
Some of these projects will be operational by the end of 2019, while others are coming online mid-2021.
And, between those three rounds of contracts, the province says power will cost between 3.7 and 4.0 cents per kilowatt-hour, weighted, on average.
“You’re trying to go back to the glory days of the fossil fuel industry where there’s a cheaper alternative in front of you.”
– Warren Mabee
Alberta soldiers who took ‘distressing’ malaria drug sought for lawsuit | CBC News
Alberta soldiers who believe they were harmed by anti-malarial medication commonly prescribed during overseas deployments in the 1990s are being recruited for a massive legal case against the federal government.
Some soldiers who took the drug mefloquine complain it caused long-term brain damage and lasting side-effects, including night terrors, mood swings, panic attacks, hallucinations and suicidal thoughts.