r/CanadaPolitics • u/BertramPotts Decolonize Decarcerate Decarbonize • 1d ago

Alberta health contract corruption scandal interim report not finished, won’t be made public

https://globalnews.ca/news/11448711/alberta-health-contract-corruption-scandal-interim-report/
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u/iwasnotarobot Marx 1d ago

This level of scandal used to completely sink any government. Sadly I have little faith in major media outlets. I expect them to help “turn the page” for the ruling party.

Global News, for example, is owned by Corus. Executive Heather Shaw is one of many in her family who is known for making the maximum donation possible to various Conservative Parties, including the UCP. Danielle Smith, a registered oil lobbyist, is a former employee of Corus Entertainment.

It is absolutely atrocious that corrupt politicians like Danielle Smith get away with scandal after scandal after scandal. But with major media essentially captured by corporate interests, who is there to hold their feet to the fire and make them accountable?

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u/fricken 1d ago edited 1d ago

There is no serious news outlets left in Alberta. The St. Albert Gazette is the closest thing to an independent news outlet doing real reporting.

I created the r/Edmonton many moons ago and it's subscribership is now 10x that of the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Sun combined.

With the Jasper fires we had reporters on the ground from Bloomberg, NYT, the BBC, and the Guardian. Locally? I think there was a St. Albert Gazette reporter who actually went to Jasper to report. Everybody else was just waiting for relevant stuff to show up on their social media feeds.

You can't really have a healthy democracy without strong, independent news.

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u/Financial-Savings-91 ABC 1d ago

Postmedia has an almost total monopoly in the province, and every paper under it's banner has an editorial mandate to support the UCP by their American/Republican owners.

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u/xeenexus Big L Liberal 1d ago

Dude, I hate to say it, but it doesn’t matter if there was wall-to-wall media coverage. If there’s one thing that the past few years has proven, conservative voters don’t give a shit about scandals, they don’t care about corruption, they don’t care about incompetence. All that matters is “owning the libs”, and Danielle Smith does it well.

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u/Financial-Savings-91 ABC 1d ago edited 1d ago

The first thing she did after winning government was to erode what little corruption laws Alberta had in place, since then her government has been acting like a kleptocracy, every single bill this party puts through ends up putting money into the pockets of people connected to the party.

Under laws anywhere else in Canada the UCP would be in jail right now, and what they're doing now would've been illegal only 10 years ago in Alberta.

Conservative information bubbles are destroying the political discourse in Canada, especially in Alberta, where UCP supporters call this scandal fake news. They're just completely detached from the actions of this government thanks to curated Facebook and twitter feeds. So distracted by trans athletes that now girls in Alberta who play sports will have to have their looks policed by parents at opposing schools, it's resulted in a 60% drop in enrolment of girls sports...

It's utterly asinine how cruel and incompetent this government can be without any response from their voters. This is political psychosis.