This week on the Alberta Roundup with Rachel Emmanuel, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeking to appeal to an “extreme base” with the government’s “just transition” proposal.
Also on the show, Rachel discusses the Federal Court’s move to grant Alberta intervenor status in six ongoing lawsuits against the Liberal government’s firearms ban.
And an unvaccinated woman who was removed from the top of the organ transplant list is asking the Supreme Court to hear her case.
Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics. Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.