Roundup: Danielle Smith’s Nice History of Canada

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Alberta premier Danielle Smith took the opportunity to shoot a video on Parliament Hill when she was in town earlier this week, and it’s a doozy. It’s so bad. Some of it is outright revisionist history—Danielle Smith’s Nice History of Canada, where the Indigenous People and settlers got together to “tame an unforgiving frontier.” No, seriously. She actually said that. And there was so much nonsense about the energy industry and market. We know that the people she listens to engage in outright residential school denialism, but this is just galling.

Ukraine Dispatch, Day 353:

Kyiv and Kharkiv were among the cities hit by a renewed Russian attack on critical infrastructure, particularly on the country’s power supply. Zaporizhzhia has faced a relentless barrage, as have the front lines in the east, where they are continuing their concerted push toward Bakhmut. Meanwhile, here is a look at the “drone hunters” trying to bring down those Iranian-made drones as best they can.

Good reads:

  • The prime minister’s lawyers are attempting to quash a subpoena for him to appear at the trial of the man who threw gravel at him.
  • Chrystia Freeland announced an electricity battery storage facility in partnership with Ontario and the Six Nations of the Grand River.
  • The federal government has announced that they are appealing the Federal Court ruling ordering them to repatriate four Canadian men detained in Syria.
  • Here is a deeper look into the official languages bill that has caused divisions among the Liberal caucus.
  • The government’s special interlocutor for unmarked graves has concerns about the contract they signed with the International Commission on Missing Persons.
  • Yes, there are fully private surgical clinics in Canada that operate under loopholes in the Canada Health Act.
  • Canadian doctors who were trained abroad are frequently unable to find residency spots in Canada and are unable to practice medicine here.
  • International aid organisations are worried the federal government will cut foreign aid in the upcoming budget.
  • Mary Ng was hauled before the ethics committee about her rules violation, where she kept insisting her apology was sincere (because meaning well is what matters).
  • Scarborough managed to keep all of its seats as part of federal riding boundary changes, but that means Toronto loses one seat as population flows elsewhere.
  • Liberal challengers for the Winnipeg South Centre nomination have withdrawn, leaving Ben Carr the only contestant to fill his late father’s seat.
  • Some of those greenbelt developers were at Doug Ford’s daughter’s wedding, and some of them at Ford’s table, and he claims they’re just family friends.
  • Toronto mayor John Tory resigned after an affair with a staffer was revealed.
  • Matt Gurney tries to make sense of the Tory resignation and what it bodes for Toronto as a possible return to the chaos that preceded Tory’s tenure.
  • Kevin Carmichael parses the job numbers released yesterday and what it could mean for the Bank of Canada’s calculations.
  • My weekend column on how the premiers lost the PR war with Trudeau because they allowed their adherence to their normalcy bias to blow up on them.

Odds and ends:

A reporter and the editor of iPolitics and Queen’s Park Briefing resigned because of editorial interference in the Ford stag-and-doe story.

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2 thoughts on “Roundup: Danielle Smith’s Nice History of Canada”

  1. Smith and Poilievre are just two of the most dangerous people in “politics” in Canada.
    Interesting how the “stupids” can’t see past them. But look at the US…fully 45 percent of the GOP/Maga still think Biden is not the ELECTED president?

  2. Dale,

    I wonder how Daniele Smith and the United Conservative Party are polling in the cities of Calgary and Edmonton in comparison with the New Democrats and the other parties?

    Calgary (26) and Edmonton (20) combined holds forty-six (46) seats of the eighty-seven (87) member Legislative Assembly, and that rounded is fifty-three (53%) of the seats.

    It will be interesting to see some public opinion polls out of those two cities as well as the province-wide public opinion polling in the coming months.

    Ronald A. McCallum

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