Reposting with addendum from the former head of the Alberta Medical Association, who flatly calls out the premier's chief of staff for spreading misinformation (Rob's not lying about the polling numbers. There is a similar spread on more than one poll):

Here's what the Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Diane McLeod said today in response to Premier Danielle Smith's announcement yesterday that she's making citizenship markers mandatory for driver's licenses. Statement from McLeod in full: #ableg

Critics are questioning what problem adding mandatory citizenship markers to provincial identification aims to solve, and say it opens the door to potential privacy breaches and discrimination. Bonus sarcastic late night ad hominem attack from Alberta PO: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Just to recap: Alberta Premier Smith says she's not banning books. But she's protecting kids from stuff in books and "drawing a line." www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Watching Premier Danielle Smith and Official NDP Opposition Leader Christina Gray jointly drag McIver to the Speaker’s chair was a nice timeline cleanse. Jack gives a really good explanation of why this became a thing well before the need for an #ableg timeline cleanse became a thing.

Relevant to this now and arguably more relevant tomorrow is this response from Alberta Premier Smith’s chief of staff on X today. It’s re: blog post arguing against separatism written by one of two Liberal MPs elected in Alberta. I’m not making a cabinet bet. It’s relevant either way because Rob

I was kinda expecting a Fair Deal Panel 2.0 announcement today after the UCP Caucus meeting. (Sorry. Not fair deal. The What’s Next panel). We didn’t get that today. We did get this release

ICYMI, here's Premier Smith's post-election statement, posted to X first thing in the morning.