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Matt Scace
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Reporter with The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau. Author of Jasper on Fire: Five Days of Hell in a Rocky Mountain Paradise, out now: https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/jasper-on-fire-pre-order/
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Hey, did you guys know my DMs are open? Truth.

I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.

Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli

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Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
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November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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NEWS: Edmonton’s chief Crown prosecutor & a deputy are out of their jobs w/ little explanation. Source tells me Crowns are on edge, as it comes months after Edmonton police publicly slammed the Crown’s handling of a case — a move Danielle Smith said she supported edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/q...
Questions swirl as Edmonton chief prosecutor and deputy out of jobs
Edmonton's top Crown prosecutor and a deputy are out of their jobs, with little explanation being offered either publicly or to their former colleagues.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail
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Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
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November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Alberta’s United Conservative Party has filed a lawsuit against two of its former MLAs, alleging they have conspired to damage the party’s reputation by using the Progressive Conservative name. #ableg #abpoli @carrietait.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com
Alberta UCP launches lawsuit against former caucus members
United Conservative Party alleges Peter Guthrie, Scott Sinclair conspired to damage party’s reputation by using Progressive Conservative name
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Alberta's Auditor General is racing to finish his investigation into healthcare procurement after the UCP govt rejected his proposed contract extension.

He's done in April, 2026, and wants his probe wrapped then, too.

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Alberta Auditor-General rushing health care probe after government denies term extension
Doug Wylie said he offered to stay for two more years to wrap up major files including the health care investigation
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November 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Insufficient disclosure obscuring billions in Alberta oil sands liabilities, advocates say. #ableg

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Insufficient disclosure obscuring billions in Alberta oil sands liabilities, advocates say
Shareholders of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies could face a shortfall of tens of billions of dollars tied to spent wells, oil sands mines
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November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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UCP MLA Scott Cyr says Wylie could always reapply for his job.

The five UCP MLAs on the committee pass the motion: Cyr, Lovely, De Jong, Dyck, Petrovic.

The four NDP MLAs on the committee vote it down: Sheppard, Miyashiro, Wright and Chapman.
This morning at the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices...UCP majority introduces a motion starting a search committee for a new auditor general.

NDP MLA David Sheppard says Doug Wylie wants to stay on two more years. Wylie is reviewing the allegations of inappropriate health contracting.
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Alberta students stage walkouts to protest province’s back-to-work order to teachers. With my pal @mattscace.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli @theglobeandmail.com
Alberta students stage walkouts to protest province’s back-to-work order to teachers
Between 200 and 300 students stood outside the legislature in Edmonton Thursday morning
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October 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Great glimpse inside Alberta's separation battle, from the Nah, We're Good perspective.

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Alberta petition that could trigger separation referendum faces looming deadline
Man behind petition hopes it never actually gets to a vote
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October 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Job opening. The Globe and Mail is seeking a Quebec-based reporter to team up with Eric Andrew-Gee.

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October 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The report commissioned by the Alberta government into allegations of corruption in the health system is out and everyone should read the caveats spelled out by the retired judge at the outset to understand what's in there, and more importantly, what's not. #ableg

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October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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People have words about Alberta Premier Smith enacting the notwithstanding clause to enforce bills that will affect their kids.

“We'll be moving if she enacts that. For the safety of our child,” says one parent.

People have words.

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'We'll be moving': Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes
EDMONTON - Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Maren Aukerman, an education professor at the University of Calgary, says the Alberta government's nearly 200-page "tool kit" hops from one topic to another without context and barely aligns with the provincial curriculum.

"It is incoherent." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
'A big mess': Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike
EDMONTON - An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as "incoherent."
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October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Alberta’s decades-old practice of partly funding private schools is coming under fresh scrutiny as public schools sit empty with teachers on strike for the third day this week. #ableg #abpoli

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Alberta private-school funding under fresh scrutiny amid historic teachers’ strike
Funding for private education isn’t a topic at the bargaining table, but a petition has reignited debate over it
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October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Don't. Leave. Me. Hanging.

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#ableg #abpoli
The Globe's new man in Calgary wants to chat. Don't leave him hanging!
Tips and letters can be sent to [email protected]. DMs are open — message me for Signal/WhatsApp details.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Pals, some news: I’m thrilled to be starting today at @theglobeandmail.com as a reporter in the Calgary bureau. I can’t wait to get to work and share important stories with this ultra-talented team. They set an enormously high bar and I couldn’t be more excited to start.
October 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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“Julie King-Yerex, co-owner of Magpie Books in Edmonton, said people have come into the shop ‘asking for our vicious compliance section.’ “

(By CP’s Aaron Souza) #Ableg #AbEd
Shopping the 'vicious compliance section': Stores see sales spike after Alberta book ban | CBC News
An Alberta government order banning some books from school libraries doesn't appear to be deterring people from reading them, say managers at several bookstores.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NEW - The Alberta government is pausing its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries. /via @jack-farrell.bsky.social @reportrix.bsky.social
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CP NewsAlert: Alberta pauses ban on school library books with sexual content
EDMONTON — Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says in an email to school boards that the government is pausing its order for the removal of
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September 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The head of the Alberta Energy Regulator has cancelled an application hearing for a potential coal mine, a move that he acknowledged is “without precedent.”

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‘Without precedent’: Alberta Energy Regulator CEO cancels hearing for coal mine
The head of the Alberta Energy Regulator has cancelled an application hearing for a potential coal mine, a move that he acknowledged is “without precedent.”
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August 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM