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The Conservative MP for Battle River-Crowfoot, just re-elected a couple of months ago, is stepping down in order to trigger a by-election that Pierre Poilievre can run in.

Danielle Smith gov't spent nearly 2yrs fighting to not release its Alberta pension plan survey. It's finally out. Only 10% of people expressed support, 63% said don't. Matthew Black, at long last. edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/…

NEW from me in The Progress Report: A student at Edmonton's MacEwan University was barred from her convocation ceremony this week for her participation in a pro-🇵🇸 protest that disrupted a Board of Governors meeting. theprogressreport.ca/macewan_bars_s…

For a fun/funny/depressing/infuriating coffee break read: the Government of Alberta has released the results of the 2023 survey on leaving the CPP as an open data set. Kudos to journalist Matthew Black for fighting for this. open.alberta.ca/dataset/9f48a3…

Lethbridge firefighters have been waiting 4.5 years for a new collective agreement.

People shouldn’t have to pay for vaccines in a publicly funded healthcare system.

Folks, it’s time to get real for a minute. The organization I work for, The Progress Report, is in dire financial straits right now. The departure of our co-founder, editor, investigative reporter and top fundraiser Duncan Kinney left a big hole in our organization.

This week on the pod, Stephen Stephen Mag from Press Progress joins us to talk G7 from a local perspective. Who was organizing around G7, who protested, and were they successful? Jeremy and Stephen relate what they saw in Calgary and out at the summit itself zencastr.com/z/eCHX0Ux2

Pitching to a crowd of about 150 at his campaign launch on Friday, Edmonton city councillor Michael Janz vowed to fight back against a UCP takeover of city council—and to stand on matters of principle even when they don't poll well. #abpoli #yegcc #yeg theprogressreport.ca/michael_janz_2…

In a video posted to the union's social media channels today, AUPE president Guy Smith appears to signal that an immediate strike will not be happening as long as the bargaining team continues to make progress in negotiations. facebook.com/watch/?v=10555…

June 23, 2025 Press Release: The Alberta government should provide the COVID-19 vaccine free of charge The Alberta Health announced that most Albertans will now need to pay out-of-pocket to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We strongly advocate that the Alberta government provide the

This week on the Progress Report podcast Jim and Jeremy sit down with Edmonton city councillor Michael Janz to talk about the October municipal election, the new party system the UCP has inflicted on it, and what Janz will be running on this year #yeg zencastr.com/z/5ZxWsDHl

NEW: Heather McPherson now has a website to sign up supporters for her federal NDP leadership campaign. heather4leader.ca

BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.” A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️

Wild story in the Canada's National Observer today: a Cochrane councillor used rhetoric from a climate-denial AI chatbot site run by a convoy activist to nearly pull Cochrane out of a climate agreement that town has honoured for over twenty years. nationalobserver.com/2025/06/27/new…

Contracts acquired by the Report by FOIP reveal a continued effort by the UCP to embed Shoppers Drug Mart in addictions and mental health care—an effort that one worker says compromised the quality of care for patients. theprogressreport.ca/contracts_reve…

( 🧵) A number of notes on this decision (Egale Canada v. Alberta, 2025 ABKB 394). The most important note is that this is *not* a decision on the merits of the challenge. It is just what happens until that decision is made. 1/

EXCLUSIVE: I FOIP'd all the contracts Alberta Health Services has signed with Shoppers Drug Mart since 2020. They reveal the Loblaw subsidiary's growing integration into the province's mental health and addictions care system to the detriment of patient care.

BREAKING: Council votes 9-4 to proceed with the CRL bylaw, which is the penultimate step in approving the deal with the Oilers. Those in opposition were Janz, Knack, Wright and Rutherford. #yeg #yegcc

Again, not the final step. City/OEG will now try to finalize master agreement that will be presented to council and the public in August. Some councillors who voted yes today say they will be looking for things in there (housing targets for example) before voting yes again. #yeg