Alberta NDP Urges Smith to Fire Senior Aide over Diatribe Against First Nations

Alberta NDP urges Smith to fire senior aide over diatribe against First Nations

Alberta's Opposition NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says Premier Danielle Smith should fire her office's executive director for posting a social media diatribe criticizing First Nations chiefs.

Alberta First Nation Chief demands apology from Premier Danielle Smith’s office

The Chief of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is demanding an apology from Premier Danielle Smith's office over comments a senior staffer made on social media disparaging the chiefs.

Chief in Alberta calls for public apology from premier’s office head over social media post with ‘racist language’

After a week of verbal shots being fired back and forth by chiefs in Alberta and Premier Danielle Smith over a separation referendum, one chief is now calling for a public apology from her office head. “If yesterday’s comments by Bruce McAllister, executive director of Danielle Smith’s office, were made by a senior staffer in any other province they would be fired,” Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Chief Sheldon Sunshine said in a statement provided to…

Alberta NDP urges Smith to fire senior aide over diatribe against First Nations

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says Premier Danielle Smith should fire her office’s executive director for posting a social media diatribe criticizing First Nations chiefs. The senior aide, Bruce McAllister, said in his Thursday post that First Nations chiefs should fix their own communities instead of accusing the premier of treason over her fall separation referendum He describes First Nations as entrenched in poverty, drugs and violence. Nenshi, sp…