Alberta Politics & Government Thread 4.0

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...408m-9.7128473

One of Alberta’s biggest and most venerable companies is declaring a $408-million hit to the value of its wind and solar projects in the province, and is largely blaming the Smith government’s electricity system reforms for being “detrimental” to investment in renewable energy.

The company may pursue “legal recourse” if negotiations and lobbying efforts fail to modify the government’s system reforms, the Feb. 26 company management discussion report states.

“The company believes the changes in policy, and resulting uncertainty for large infrastructure investment, is detrimental to the government of Albertaʼs stated objectives to promote investment in the province of Alberta,” the document states.

The lack of new power transmission lines from the wind- and solar-heavy southeast part of Alberta has forced the system regulators to curtail some companies’ generation.

The ATCO company’s Forty Mile project has been one of the hardest hit. Twenty-five per cent of its total potential power generation was curtailed last year, according to a report by the provincial Market Surveillance Administrator.

Additional forthcoming regulations will extend this issue, the company says, meaning its major wind farm “remains exposed to sustained curtailment and uncertain timelines for relief, which will continue to depress cash flows until definitive transmission solutions are implemented.”

Canadian Utilities is warning that other recent reforms are also financially harmful. Among them, pricing changes as part of Alberta’s energy market restructuring will further depress potential revenues for the company’s existing wind and solar developments, the company’s report stated.

All told, provincially legislated changes “have materially and retroactively altered the economic conditions under which these renewable assets were developed and financed,” the ATCO company said in the document.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...408m-9.7128473

Cool cool, maybe they can raise property taxes some more to pay for another legal settlement due to their moronic ideological governance.

Where the #### are all the fiscally conservative free market CP'ers who voted for this #### hanging out? They seem so quiet these days... Oh right, at least one ran off to America after taking this giant dump on us.

[BigThief]

Alberta rolls out $90 million pilot program to expand private school spaces

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/loc...-school-spaces
$90 million from the government doesn't seem very f'n private.

[Fuzz]

But they save us money!


Note that no other province in Canada funds schools outside the public system. But I understand these private operators can't just be expected to pay for it themselves in the land of free market enterprise. Need some of that socialism sprinkled around.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by MegaErtz

Has Danielle Smith had plastic surgery? She looks very different compared to a month ago.

Has the smirk frozen in place now?

[PepsiFree]

She still looks like she should run into traffic to me.

[Fuzz]

The Ozempic probably led to a need for a facelift.

[btimbit]

Did she get laminated like Elon?

[puffnstuff]

Her ugly is all on the inside

[Fuzz]

Spoiler!

March 2024


https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...ll-legislation


March 2025

https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...draising-event


March 2026

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...polled-believe


https://energeticcity.ca/2026/03/05/...ight-at-night/


ignore man trying to hide a fart in that last one, also 2026.

Only because I was curious.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

But they save us money!


Note that no other province in Canada funds schools outside the public system. But I understand these private operators can't just be expected to pay for it themselves in the land of free market enterprise. Need some of that socialism sprinkled around.

What is your take on this funding model from the wonderful folks in BC?
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/e...chools/funding

[woob]

So they say they want to focus that 90million pilot on private schools to provide more spaces for students with specialized education needs. Sure, thats a good thing to focus on, but why private? Why not fund creating spaces in the public system.

There are private/charter schools in all sorts of areas of the city and all sorts of buildings. You're telling me we can't get creative and put up some public schools in mild industrial commercial spaces? If we're lacking in space then think outside the box. Get some modular builders on this, retrofit some of these sprawling strip buldings in light industrial areas.

If parents had more public options for specialied education needs, I'm 100% sure they'd drive across the city to get their kid to that school.

[Fuzz]

Sorry, missed a word there. Funds capital projects for private schools.

[woob]

Yeah, we should not be funding the construction and/or expansion of private schools. That should be entirely funded by the private entity.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by woob

So they say they want to focus that 90million pilot on private schools to provide more spaces for students with specialized education needs. Sure, thats a good thing to focus on, but why private? Why not fund creating spaces in the public system.

There are private/charter schools in all sorts of areas of the city and all sorts of buildings. You're telling me we can't get creative and put up some public schools in mild industrial commercial spaces? If we're lacking in space then think outside the box. Get some modular builders on this, retrofit some of these sprawling strip buldings in light industrial areas.

If parents had more public options for specialied education needs, I'm 100% sure they'd drive across the city to get their kid to that school.

Because they'd need to hire more teachers. By punting it to the private system, we still pay for those teachers(ya, ya, lower costs) but they are not part of a union, and you know, maybe the next time the public unions go on strike(if they ever have the right to) the govenrment points at the private schools still open and blames unions destroying education, and maybe we'd be better to do away with the public boards altogether, as is their end goal in everything.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Because they'd need to hire more teachers. By punting it to the private system, we still pay for those teachers(ya, ya, lower costs) but they are not part of a union, and you know, maybe the next time the public unions go on strike(if they ever have the right to) the govenrment points at the private schools still open and blames unions destroying education, and maybe we'd be better to do away with the public boards altogether, as is their end goal in everything.

You’re very close but it’s not the boards the UCP and their puppet masters are trying to do away with. They like boards that they can control. Even private boards still have to follow government guidelines. And the UCP have proven they don’t care about paying less for anything if it can benefit one of their buddies.

Care to take a second guess?

Hint: you name their actual target 3 times in your post

[Fuzz]

I didn't think I needed to spell that out, as it is an obvious outcome. Or it was to me as I typed it.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Sorry, missed a word there. Funds capital projects for private schools.

No. Let's call it what it really is which is spreading misinformation.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

No. Let's call it what it really is which is spreading misinformation.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

It's funny that you don't want to classify posting blatantly incorrect statements about a government out of pure hate as misinformation.

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

You’re a middle aged man posting memes on a hockey forum toward another one doing the same.

[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

It’s actually PI day

Cool edgy graphic though . They probably eat it up on Bluesky !