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Brian Jean
Brian Jean's crack about beating Rachel Notley may have ended his hopes to lead Alberta's right
David J. Climenhaga | It is not clear whether this blow to Brian Jean's credibility will help or hinder Calgary Midnapore MP Jason Kenney's quest to unite and lead Alberta's right.
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Mike Allen
If anything, the headlines are getting worse for Jim Prentice and Alberta's faltering PCs
David J. Climenhaga | Increasingly beleaguered by the news and the polls, the Jim Prentice PCs have begun taking aim at any old thing that can be used to wedge a vote or two away from an opposition candidate.
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Jim Prentice
Prentice to Albertans: I've listened. You don't want an election. You're getting one anyway!
David J. Climenhaga | Since we keep complaining about how the Tories never get us off the roller coaster of volatile energy prices, one has to wonder if some of us actually enjoy the ride.
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Raj Sherman
Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman quits, completing last-place trifecta of disastrous party leaders
David J. Climenhaga | Only the Alberta NDP has managed a leadership transition since the 2012 provincial general election without leaving blood on the floor.
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Jim Prentice
Cabinet-making in a shallow talent pool: What's Alberta's Jim Prentice going to do?
David J. Climenhaga | What's Alberta's new PC leader to do? He can hardly throw the old crowd under the bus at the same time as he's putting some of them back in the cabinet driver's seat.
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Mark Twain
Alison's Albertan airplanes and architecture: Who knew? No one, it turns out!
David J. Climenhaga | Call a public inquiry. Call it now! Just call it, already!
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What are we gonna call this place if the Alberta Party starts soaring in the polls?
David J. Climenhaga | When the Alberta PCs decided to pull "Wild Rose Country" off the province's licence plates, for some reason Welcome to Bull Trout Country seems not to have made the grade.
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Mike Allen
Alberta Tory MLA arrested in U.S. prostitution sting? Not a problem, apparently…
David J. Climenhaga | A Progressive Conservative Alberta MLA arrested a year ago in a prostitution sting in the United States has been welcomed back into the government caucus.
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15 more Tory defectors won't necessarily bring down Alison Redford's government
David J. Climenhaga | Electoral math is calculus, not merely arithmetic.
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Guy Boutilier
Back to the future with Guy Boutilier: A run to be Fort Mac's MP looks likely
David J. Climenhaga | What a control freak like Stephen Harper would make of a potential loose canon like Guy Boots in Fort Mac -- the place nearest the PM's heart and to his schemes for Canada -- is food for thought!
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Brian Jean
In four letters, Brian Jean, the Crossword King of Parliament Hill, has Q-U-I-T
David J. Climenhaga | Brian Jean is the second MP from a safe Alberta Tory riding to quit in the past three months, providing the Tories with a chance for a couple of sure-thing pre-election by-election wins.
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Mike Allen
An ill wind blows no good for Alberta PCs: Caucus member arrested on U.S. prostitution rap
David J. Climenhaga | The sordid arrest in Minnesota of a Fort McMurray MLA puts the government of Premier Alison Redford in an excruciatingly difficult position.