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Ottawa’s $10-a-day Early Learning and Childcare Program was designed to ease the financial burden on families, but in Alberta - and across the country - it has (predictably) turned into a nightmare for childcare operators and families.

Imagine living in a quiet Alberta community when an emergency alert warns that two armed individuals are on the loose nearby.

The message offers no details - leaving everyone in fear and confusion.

Hours pass, and locals turn to social media for information, sharing photos of a stolen truck seen in the area.

The latest forest management scandal has ignited another controversy for the federal government and has raised serious questions about whether Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is fit for office.

While Ottawa fixates on climate change rhetoric, their neglect of forest fire prevention has left Alberta's landscapes vulnerable to devastation. 

Remember when the media said our Free Alberta Strategy was "controversial"?

Remember when the experts said our Sovereignty Act was "dangerous"?

Remember when the insiders said our ideas would collapse Alberta's economy, cost the government the election, and bring about the end of the rule of law as we know it?

There’s been a lot of discussion in Alberta in recent days regarding several new pieces of provincial legislation that will impact municipalities.

The Alberta government is proposing a series of reforms that aim to clarify the role and scope of municipal governments - and the role of the Province in governing municipalities.

Last week marked a monumental moment for our Free Alberta Strategy team.

When we first wrote the Free Alberta Strategy, one of the key ideas we developed was called the "Sovereignty Act" - you may have heard of it?

Our vision for a stronger, more independent Alberta pushed us to develop this idea of a law that allowed Alberta to take the front foot, and take the fight to Ottawa, instead of waiting on the defensive and constantly having to react to Ottawa's moves.

As you probably know - our idea was adopted by Danielle Smith and passed into law just over a year ago.

As you may have heard, Alberta has announced it will opt out of participating in the federal government's proposed national pharmacare plan.

The massively expensive proposal was, of course, the centerpiece of the 2021 Confidence and Supply Agreement between the Liberal and NDP parties currently sharing power in Parliament.

The Alberta government calls the plan “a hastily arranged, politically motivated program that the Liberal government has agreed to, in an attempt to hold together their confidence and supply agreements with the NDP to avoid an election.”

And, effectively, it amounts to a federal government takeover of yet another aspect of provincial jurisdiction.

Which, naturally, means Alberta is going to pay.

Literally.

Albertans faced a particularly gruesome deep freeze last week, forcing renewable electricity generation to completely shut down and putting the provinces’ entire electricity grid at risk.

That deep freeze caused the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) to issue an emergency alert urging Albertans to reduce electricity usage in order to avoid rolling blackouts.

It’s a common misconception that the point of establishing an Alberta Pension Plan (APP) is to let the Alberta government decide what the money would be invested in.

Nothing could be further from the truth.