Overview

• Premier Danielle Smith instructed Justice Minister Mickey Amery to use all available legal avenues to overturn or overhaul federal measures including Bill C-69, the oil and gas emissions cap, clean electricity regulations, the tanker ban, the industrial carbon pricing regulation and the EV mandate.
• Smith also directed Amery and Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis to develop a policing priority framework to align law-enforcement activities with provincial priorities, including protections for lawful firearms owners and self-defence, after a ministry clarification softened a news release’s initial wording from “directs” to “assist.”
• Amery linked the firearms directive to Ottawa’s launch of the assault-style gun buy-back program, calling the program misguided for targeting law-abiding owners in an interview with the National Post.
• The mandate letters add plans to introduce legislation that tightens safeguards on MAID by barring eligibility based solely on mental illness and to craft free-speech protections for provincially regulated professionals.
• The Investigative Journalism Foundation reported that two Alberta judges with identical names to sitting justices appear to have donated to the UCP, prompting a chief-justice review the court would not confirm to Postmedia, while local coverage featured a Calgary mayoral debate focused on public safety and infrastructure and letters highlighting concerns over health care, education and traffic.