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Article content We can only hope COVID-19 nods its spiky head in agreement. This plan once again puts Alberta out of line with other provinces. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: With faith in vaccine and fingers crossed, Alberta will abandon COVID-19 measures Back to video The official goal, beginning Aug. 16, is to place COVID-19 on the same level as seasonal flu, with roughly similar measures for containment. “With strong vaccine uptak...

Article content We can only hope COVID-19 nods its spiky head in agreement. This plan once again puts Alberta out of line with other provinces. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: With faith in vaccine and fingers crossed, Alberta will abandon COVID-19 measures Back to video The official goal, beginning Aug. 16, is to place COVID-19 on the same level as seasonal flu, with roughly similar measures for containment. “With strong vaccine uptak...

Article content But there’s a growing feeling that some people who are fully vaccinated will need a booster shot. The general population might someday require a third dose, or even annual vaccination. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: Albertans may be lining up for more COVID-19 shots in the future Back to video In the U.S., top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci said recently that a third shot might be necessary for people ...

Article content Liberal candidates and campaign workers are being bombarded with events planned by party central. The most interesting, according to a batch of messages passed on to me, is for a “weekend virtual bootcamp” on Aug. 14. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: The federal election is coming soon, maybe with a few surprises for Alberta Back to video This is a giant cheerleading session that typically precedes the formal writ drop...

Article content That’s the way it seems at Alberta Health Services in the early days of what everyone hopes is the post-pandemic era. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: AHS offers soothing numbers but the crisis still looms in health care Back to video The system is groaning under some shortages, the Opposition claims that it’s virtually collapsing, and a civil war is budding with nurses and other professionals who face pay cuts. The ND...

Article content Current conditions mean the city can’t expect a credit upgrade to AA+ or the highest rating, AAA, DBRS says. Also, some of the positive picture comes from funding support via both Ottawa and the UCP government. But this fiscal snapshot, although hardly ideal, does not reveal anything close to crisis. Councillors and Mayor Naheed Nenshi have taken a fierce pounding in the past couple of years, most notably over the business tax fiasco that imposed usurious hikes on small com...

Article content The federal Liberals announced consultations for a “just transition” away from oil and other resources to a green economy. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: Another battle looming with Ottawa over worker transition from oil and gas Back to video By the end of this process there will be a national law that enables (forces?) transition for workers across sectors and regions, at the pace set by Ottawa. Canadians are invite...

Article content We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: Nurses growing anger leads to talk of strike after UCP proposes pay cut Back to video The United Nurses of Alberta, with more than 30,000 members, is a much more powerful body than the doctor’s group, the Alberta Medical Association. And many nurses are talking about a strike. “I’m not raising that word — it’s the members who are raising it,” says UNA president Heather Smith. �...

Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: Kenney shuffle cements Calgarys complete dominance of cabinet Back to video Premier Jason Kenney’s cabinet now has 26 members, including 20 full ministers, five associates and the premier himself. Seventeen are from Calgary ridings. This is the most geographically lopsided cabinet ever. Calgary is clearly the power centre not just in numbers, but in influence. MLAs from the city hold most key ministries, including Health, Energy, Municipal Affairs, Inf...

Braid: A cabinet shuffle with many moving parts but no change to status quo This shuffle was pure UCP. There are a few more associates, some switching of duties, but no change at all in the central engine room Author of the article: Don Braid  •  Calgary Herald Publishing date: Jul 08, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Premier Jason Kenney speaks alongside new cabinet members after a swearing in ceremony at Government House in Edmonton, on Thursday, July 8, 20...