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David J. Climenhaga
| Twitter users were quick to point out to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Aaron Wudrick that any horse hoping to defraud Ottawa of CERB funds would need a valid social insurance number. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Readers are advised to take Canadian Taxpayers Federation "reports" with a healthy dose of skepticism. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| A general election on Tuesday that Jason Kenney and his UCP could very well win really should concentrate the minds of the most likely victims of his plans. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| UCP Leader Jason Kenney's tweets were well meaning, but the dog-whistling habit is apparently hard to break. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The CTF has been disproportionately influential in Canadian political discourse because the mainstream media treats its pronouncements as if they were credible. Will a $6,000 fine change that? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Right now, it's hard to see where the right-wing Canadian Taxpayers Federation ends and SecondStreet.org, new right-wing think-tank to be launched in March, begins. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The Atlas Network is said to have distributed about US$5 million to groups it supports worldwide in 2016. Among the group's partners are 12 Canadian entities. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Public documents and website postings show some of the sources of the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms' money. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| At least one response to a poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation suggests David Suzuki is far more popular in Alberta than his opponents wish us to believe. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Albertans are pretty unenthusiastic about the whole idea of giving public money to schools that charge tuition, an Environics poll done for the Alberta Teachers Association shows. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Some member of the UCP caucus is bound to be told sooner or later to dress up as Porky the Waster Hater, at least until the Opposition party can generate some porky waste of its own. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| A Traffic Court Commissioner concluded MLA Derek Fildebrandt couldn’t prove he was elsewhere at the time of a hit and run in the parking lot of his Edmonton condo. |