ICYMI: May 21-27
It’s been all Alberta politics all week at The Orchard. If you value the work I do, please consider a paid subscription starting at $5 a month.
I wrote a piece for The Breach about the NDP’s effort to appeal to soft conservative voters, which produced an incredibly tepid platform.
What I’ve been reading
Alberta
Alberta workers less likely to be unionized, Kim Siever, Alberta Worker (May 23)
Alberta election: 3 ridings outside Edmonton ‘just as crucial’ for NDP, Emily Mertz, Global News (May 23)
Tensions rise as UCP and NDP candidates cast advance ballots, Justin Sibbet, Lethbridge Herald (May 23)
Is an Airbnb lobbyist running Alberta NDP’s election campaign? Kevin Maimann, Ricochet (May 24)
Alberta looks to Portugal for addiction treatment model. But what is it? Alanna Smith, Globe and Mail (May 25)
Alberta Election Tests Conservatives’ Hard-Right Turn, Ian Austen, New York Times (May 26)
Former Alberta NDP volunteer files human rights complaint against party, Elise von Scheel, CBC News (May 26)
CBC News poll suggests United Conservative Party headed for victory in Alberta, Brooks DeCillia, CBC News (May 26)
The ghost of Jason Kenney haunts Alberta’s tight provincial election, Kelly Cryderman, Globe and Mail (May 26)
Alberta Election 2023: What the different outcomes on election night could mean for the province, Matthew Black, Edmonton Journal (May 26)
UCP Has Made Alberta’s Labour Laws the Worst in the Country, Experts Say, Emily Leedham, PressProgress (May 27)
Take Back Alberta Sponsored Jordan Peterson Talk Has Elections Alberta’s Attention, Stephen Magusiak, PressProgress (May 27)
Canada
Who will win the Toronto mayoral election? See the latest poll results, Toronto Star (May 23)
‘We govern from right of centre’: Bonnie Crombie on how she’d lead the Ontario Liberals, John Michael McGrath, TVO (May 23)
Key take-aways from Toronto mayoral candidates debating housing and the arts, Joshua Chong, Toronto Star (May 24)
Debunking three big myths about bike lanes, Taylor Noakes, TVO (May 24)
New leave for Indigenous public servants 'a step in the right direction,' advocates say, Catherine Morrison, National Post (May 26)
Pierre Poilievre is at war with safer-supply programs. What does he hope to gain? Ian Bailey and Andrea Woo, Globe and Mail (May 26)
WestJet pilots deal grants 24% pay raise over four years, Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press (May 26)
Once a conceivable idea, the defund-the-police movement is at odds with growing police budgets, Dakshana Bascaramurty, Globe and Mail (May 27)
World
More super rich names are coming up in the Jeffrey Epstein cases, Jacob Bogage, Washington Post (May 23)
Anti-Putin Militias Celebrating Attacks on Russia Are Filled With Neo-Nazis, Matthew Gault, Vice (May 23)
Twitter repeatedly crashes as DeSantis tries to make presidential announcement, Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post (May 24)
LEAKED REPORT: “CIA DOES NOT KNOW” IF ISRAEL PLANS TO BOMB IRAN, Ken Klippenstein, The Intercept (May 24)
Israeli agents conducted targeted killings in civilian area, killing a child, Imogen Piper, Meg Kelly and Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post (May 26)
Erdogan Amassed Power Over 20 Years, Leveraging Crisis After Crisis, Alan Yuhas, New York Times (May 26)
Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech, Hayden Field and Jonathan Vanian, CNBC (May 26)