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David J. Climenhaga
| Albertans long ago "decided that a drunken, blow-out dance party today was better than a string of candle-lit dinner parties down the road." |
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David J. Climenhaga
| With voting starting this week, the campaign to unite the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties into a single entity is inevitably being described as entering the final stretch. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Continuing to make farmers fund agricultural check-off organizations, some of which function almost as auxiliaries of the Wildrose Opposition, is not going to help the Alberta NDP. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| What will those Alberta politicians who insist sales-tax-raising Brad Wall of Saskatchewan is Western Canada’s “real leader” say now? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| There is part of a long tradition in Alberta politics of dubious Russian political metaphors. PC MLA Richard Gotfried is the latest politician to yield to this temptation. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| When it comes to its own core constituencies, Alberta's NDP government continues to be too cautious – undoubtedly a hangover from the rough ride it got over Bill 6. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Unlike the two NDP throne speeches, those of the Progressive Conservatives in recent years were less likely to deliver on their key promises. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| When by-then-premier Jim Prentice appointed a new cabinet in the fall of 2014, Dave Hancock was out, with barely a word of thanks. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| If we ask why we are spending public money on portraits of Alberta premiers (and Legislative Speakers, too, it must be added) we are asking the wrong question. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| When it comes to fiscal planning in conservative Western Canadian provinces, all we have to fall back on is the notion the lord giveth and the lord taketh away. Repeatedly. |
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John Ashton
| A useful primer on the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission by former NDP Caucus director John Ashton. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Will the heads of Alberta's ultra-conservatives explode now that Brad Wall has done what they've been complaining about for nearly a decade? Or will they just pretend it didn't happen? |