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Vice-Admiral Mark Norman hands over a plaque to the commander of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (Photo: Julianne F. Metzger/U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons).
Vice-Admiral Mark Norman gets an apology and Conrad Black gets a pardon
David J. Climenhaga | None of us knows whether Vice-Admiral Mark Norman is guilty of the crime with which he was charged. Pardoned by the president, Lord Black may now exit the Dominion.
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Derek Fildebrandt
Does Derek Fildebrandt's paean to 'Mad Max' Bernier foretell a UCP leadership campaign?
David J. Climenhaga | "For those of us who supported the man we call 'Mad Max,' Bernier's loss was a heartbreaking disappointment." – Derek Fildebrandt, Wildrose finance critic
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Joan Crockatt. Image: David Climenhaga
Foreign influence had nothing to do with Tory Joan Crockatt's Calgary Centre election defeat in 2015
David J. Climenhaga | A great Liberal candidate, Kent Hehr, and a great Liberal campaign, Justin Trudeau's, won the election of 2015. Claims to the contrary are codswallop.
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Missing Mars Lander
Schiaparelli lander missing; ground control still in contact with Postmedia; prognosis grim for both
David J. Climenhaga | You don't need a calculator to know that if Postmedia keeps losing money at this quarter’s pace, it'll soon be burning through $400 million a year.
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FDR
Just say no to term limits! They're fundamentally undemocratic and that's why the right likes them
David J. Climenhaga | Would the perennial Canadian advocates of political term limits please shut up!
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Mel Hurtig (Photo by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward)
Mel Hurtig, a great Canadian -- and, full of beans, as we used to say
David J. Climenhaga | Mel Hurtig died yesterday in Vancouver. He was 84. He was a great Canadian. He will be missed.
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Stephen Harper
Does the federal Tory pivot toward Alberta show they've given up on power in Ottawa?
David J. Climenhaga | It is axiomatic a supposedly national party can't exclusively take the side of a single province without doing itself serious harm. Yet this seems to be what the current CPC leadership wants to do.
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CTF Stunt
What's behind Canadian Taxpayers Federation's stunt calling for rollbacks in Alberta teachers' pay?
David J. Climenhaga | The CTF is not a serious organization. Why does the media keep treating it as if it is?
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Rachel Notley
Year in review: from plunging oil to rising hope, the Top Ten news stories of 2015
David J. Climenhaga | Top Ten news stories lists? Journalists, being who they are, tilt toward surprises, mayhem and the last half of the year. Me too.
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Joseph Howe
Succession planning: what do we do when the great Canadian newspapers die off?
David J. Climenhaga | We Canadians need to do some serious "succession planning," to determine who or what will do the vital job done by our once-great newspapers.
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Mark Asbell
Starting with the A's in Alberta: Archer is in; Asbell is on the way out
David J. Climenhaga | As a respected CBC broadcaster enters the government’s service, the skids are said to be being greased for the departure of the chair of the Alberta Labour Relations Board.
Columnists
Conrad Black's advice to newspapers is fish wrap
Wayne MacPhail | Black's op-ed on newspapers is filled with such choleric invective, anachronistic error and purblind irony that to let it lie would be a gross dereliction of one's obligation to the fifth estate.