Danielle Smith vs. Danielle Smith
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 27/04/2023 (1239 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
On the eve of an election that will be determined by the votes — and voters — in Calgary, Danielle Smith just made a very big bet. Wearing a Calgary Flames jersey, the Alberta premier and United Conservative Party leader announced $330 million in provincial funding for a new hockey arena, one that’s been the subject of starts and stops for many years. “It’s a big amount of money,” Smith said. “We wanted to make sure that it could be debated during the election, and we’d hoped we’d be able to get a mandate from the people of Calgary to go ahead with it.”
In other words: re-elect us or we’ll shoot this arena.
To read more of this story first reported by Canada’s National Observer, click here.
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