What Did Danielle Smith Do Now?

Archive: What Did Smith Do Then?

  • Smith Doesn’t Trust Alberta’s Fire Officials

    Smith Doesn’t Trust Alberta’s Fire Officials

    Danielle Smith went on Ryan Jespersen’s “Real Talk” today, and – faced with a question about climate change and its impact on wildfires – dove directly into conspiracy theories about Alberta’s wildfires being deliberately caused by arsonists, giving a Trumpian response about there being “stories about arson”, and telling us that Alberta will bring in… Read more

  • Smith’s Tenuous Grasp on History

    Smith’s Tenuous Grasp on History

    Yesterday was the 79th anniversary of D-Day – June 6, 1944. One of the most famous battles of World War 2, that’s when the Americans, British, and Canadians launched a coordinated strike on German fortifications in Normandy, France, gaining a foothold in Western Europe. Or, as Danielle Smith put it: She later edited the Tweet,… Read more

  • Flashback: Smith Breached the COI Act

    Flashback: Smith Breached the COI Act

    This pre-election flashback may be important context for things to come, but it’s actually quite recent in some ways. Most of the details are laid out in the report of the Ethics Commissioner, Marguerite Trussler. The story starts, in some ways, last October, in the waning days of the UCP leadership race, when Danielle Smith… Read more

  • The Council of the Defeated

    The Council of the Defeated

    Smith’s creating an advisory group to speak for Edmonton…and naming to it the people Edmonton rejected in an election. Read more