I believe the term "Yellow Journalism" defines it quite well.
The whole story is typical progressive bull$h!t. Blame preceding governments for today's issues, even though they haven't been in power for years. Ralph hasn't been Premier since 2006 yet the current state of the economy is somehow all his fault? Sounds like the same rallying cry one hears from the States: "But, but, but... BUSH!!!", despite the fact that no Bush has been in power for more than 8 years now.
What a crock.
The paragraph that stuck out for me was this little gem:
M'bold & the part I'm going to address.
On Alberta education ("
schools"):
Well, so much for the damage done to Alberta schools.
On health care (
from 2014):
Contrary to what the anonymous author noted, health care spending was not the issue. Efficiency? Absolutely! Shortage of money? Not a chance. And, if Rachel figgers that throwing more money at the same problem without making any changes will make the problem go away, she's just as clueless as her 3 priors...
So much for the shortage of health care spending myth.
On infrastructure. When I hear the word infrastructure, I think of things like roads & highways, schools, hospitals.
I drive & ride a lot, all over southern BC, southern & central Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, northern Washington, northern Idaho & all over Montana. None of those areas has roads as nice as Alberta's. Period. I don't know about the respective spending, I don't care. The proof is in the pudding.
As to construction & maintenance of schools, I'll go by what I see locally. Photographing sporting events & chasing my littluns all over southern Alberta, there are few schools which have not received massive recent (< 12 years old) upgrades. Any who have not yet received upgrades have been scheduled to do so or are in the middle of them. There have also been a number of new schools built in the area.
As to construction of hospitals, there is currently a massive addition to the Lethbridge Regional underway & a new hospital was recently built in SE Calgary. Now, while I don't like the fact that most local municipalities lost their hospitals, in the face of that, newer, bigger, better centralized facilities is the next best thing & obviously it is happening.
So much for Alberta's infrastructure collapsing.
That debunks the first 3 of the 4 points the author utilizes as examples. As to the last, the author does not detail what "services" they are specifically talking about but merely use the phrase as a talking point (Oh, think of the children...). As such, I'll leave the point lost in it's ambiguity.
The author is all over the map with blame, as well. It's all Klein's fault, yet they talk about:
Funny, if memory serves, those were the years of Social Credit domination in Alberta. Is that somehow Klein's fault, too?
A final point: Curious thing about Klein, he was able to balance the budget on $35/barrel oil, too...