Premier Danielle Smith is peeved off, riled up, steamed, incensed, livid.

Smith says as much.

“Frustration doesn’t begin to describe what we’re seeing,” says the outraged Alberta premier.

What she’s seeing and what we’re seeing is an exploding water pipe that went kaboom in the summer of 2024 and again a few days ago.

What Smith is seeing and what we’re seeing is a Calgary city hall doing a pathetic job for many, many years in making sure the city water pipe didn’t get to this sorry state, where even they admit any section of the pipe could blow at any time.

Smith takes aim at Naheed Nenshi, former mayor of Calgary and now the Alberta NDP leader.

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The premier tells your scribbler on Friday afternoon how Nenshi wears a lot of the blame and is ultimately the one most politically responsible for this water pipe fiasco Calgary once again faces.

She says “the seeds of the problem today” began in years past.

Smith asks who the mayor was after the........

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