The Progress Report
The Progress Report is the media arm of Progress Alberta, an Edmonton-based non-profit working to advance the left in Alberta.
- Alberta MP and NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson is calling on the feds to shut down the five ICE offices located in Canada. One of those offices is here in Calgary.
- "The coal industry hired at least 14 government insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes, records show."
- In case you missed it—the AFL has a podcast now, featuring president Gil McGowan and published under Ryan Jespersen's "Real Talk" brand.
- An Alberta county is apparently violating the Recall Act in order to assist the separatist petition and no, which county it is will absolutely not surprise you.
- Alberta's Green Party, which exists, has announced a new interim party leader.
- "'There's hundreds of sites around Alberta that used to be grocery stores but were then blocked when the old grocery store had a merger or an acquisition or they moved out,' Janz said in an interview Thursday with CBC Edmonton's Radio Active."
- Wellington Advocacy, the conservative government relations firm founded by Kenney campaign manager Nick Koolsbergen in 2019, has announced a hot new hire: the federal NDP's most-loathed former leader.
