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Support for Trans Mountain expansion drops under Jason Kenney's belligerent premiership
David J. Climenhaga | Support for TMX outside the Prairies has dropped since Kenney scrapped Rachel Notley's "social license" strategy. The UCP government's hostile approach is driving away support for the project.
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Coronavirus. Image: Centers for Disease Control/Wikimedia Commons
Ideology trumps expertise when conservatives meddle with health care
David J. Climenhaga | The start of a global coronavirus outbreak probably isn't the best moment for a high-risk ideological experiment in health-care management, but don't expect conservatives to care.
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Progress Alberta director Duncan Kinney. Image: Dave Cournoyer, used with permission
Progress Alberta fights Jason Kenney's 'unconstitutional' witch hunt
David J. Climenhaga | A small activist organization is challenging the UCP government's so-called inquiry into "anti-Alberta campaigns." If the Alberta government is a Goliath, Progress Alberta is certainly David.
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The University of Alberta's Central Academic Building
Alberta's UCP hits universities with red tape
David J. Climenhaga | Jason Kenney's government adores regulations intended to harass people and organizations they don't like, for example, the University of Alberta.
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Manning Centre founder and former Reform party leader Preston Manning. Image: David J. Climenhaga
Mysterious career changes announced in Alberta and British Columbia
David J. Climenhaga | File under unsolved political mysteries: career changes by Stephen Harper, Preston Manning and Andrew Weaver. Whatever can they mean?
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Premier Jason Kenney speaks to media. Image: Government of Alberta/Flickr
Jason Kenney's economic policies are failing Alberta
David J. Climenhaga | The Alberta legislature returns on February 25 amid disappearing jobs and sour economic indicators. Can Alberta survive another spring of renewal like the last one?
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Wexit rally in Edmonton. Image: David J. Climenhaga
About 150 people make it to frigid Wexit rally at Alberta Legislature Building
David J. Climenhaga | Judging from the turnout at its Edmonton rally yesterday, Alberta's minuscule Wexit faction might want to reconsider its demand for a separation referendum right now.
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The "fair deal" panel in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Image: David Climenhaga
'Fair deal' panel town hall fails to stoke support for Wexit
David J. Climenhaga | If you expected a separatist open mic night in Fort Saskatchewan, guess again!
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Alberta Minister of Energy Sonya Savage. Image: David J. Climenhaga
Alberta government criticizes UN discrimination report
David J. Climenhaga | The United Conservative Party has a lot of time for the rule of law -- but only when the law lets it enforce its own rules.
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NDP Opposition energy critic Irfan Sabir when he was a minister of the Crown. Image: David J. Climenhaga
NDP assails Alberta energy war room for 'gross incompetence,' but is that such a bad thing?
David J. Climenhaga | Run competently, the Canadian Energy Centre could do considerably more damage to the democratic rights of Albertans and the state of our rapidly heating globe.
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A helicopter drops a bucket of water on a wildfire near High Level, Alberta in May 2019. Image: Chris Schwarz for Government of Alberta/Flickr
Get used to it, Alberta: the world is learning how to talk about climate change
David J. Climenhaga | Response to Australian wildfires shows how much has changed since 2016, when connections between Alberta wildfires and climate change were denounced as outrageous.
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Left image: Progress Software Corp. logo. Right image: The CEC's first logo.
Annals of the energy war room: Square-pipeline logo to be dumped like a bad first date
David J. Climenhaga | It turns out the square-pipeline symbol that was supposedly rustled up just for the Canadian Energy Centre was already in use as the corporate logo of a software developer based in Massachusetts.