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How to avoid a Canadian Trump
Scott Vrooman | Instead of dismissing angry, alienated Canadians as racist bumpkins, we should try to convince them that the fight for economic justice is their fight too.
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Stephen Harper
This just in: PM calls early election…I mean, calls election early…What could possibly go wrong?
David J. Climenhaga | Could Prime Minister Stephen Harper be asking, this time, too much of an electorate he treats like a bunch of dummies? Naw… What could possibly go wrong?
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Ric McIver
Alberta PCs: Term limit fumble and cellular bill good news for candidate Ric McIver
David J. Climenhaga | Jim Prentice has revealed himself to be the Mitt Romney of Alberta politics: just the right amount of grey in his hair for appearance to triumph over substance.
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Naheed Nenshi
The Six-Point-Four-Billion-Dollar Question: Will the Redford Tories drop their budget balancing act?
David J. Climenhaga | No major natural event happens without political consequences. The floods that hit Southern Alberta will be no different, and they will likely do Premier Alison Redford no harm.
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Preston Manning
The Annals of Digital Recording: 'Preston is out of the country and cannot comment'
David J. Climenhaga | Oh no! Another bright spark with a digital recorder seems to have gone to a meeting.
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Most of us are happy at 29 … but maybe not Alberta's premier
David J. Climenhaga | Premier Redford seems to be labouring under the impression that if she can persuade U.S. President Barack Obama to OK the Keystone XL pipeline, all will be forgiven. Not necessarily.
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Blaine Higgs
Manning Conference II: Cons' pipeline sales pitch sure to feature 'Green Conservatism'
David J. Climenhaga | Clearly conservatives have identified the environment as a potentially fatal weak point for their continued rule and will do their best to persuade Canadians they can be trusted on the green file.
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Tom Flanagan
Tom Flanagan, neoconservative spiritual leader, consigned to utter darkness
David J. Climenhaga | It is not known when adherents of the Canadian neocon faith will elect their new spiritual leader -- although it's possible Preston Manning is available for the job.
Columnists
U.S. election results no surprise
Jerry West | Well, the election circus down south is over. Some people are happy, some are really frothing at the mouth, and most are glad that it is over.
Podcast
Obama Re-elected
The Society of the Spectacle, the Lesser of Two Evils, and the US Election
Riaz Sayani-Mulji | Kevin Mackay provides post-election analysis on American domestic and foreign policy, the structural problems with the United States electoral system, and more.
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"Harpercrite" by William Prettie, used with permission
Republican failure shows conservative parties must adapt, like Alberta PCs, or die
David J. Climenhaga | As Tuesday's U.S. presidential election illustrates, Conservative parties face the prospect of having to adapt to new realities, or die.
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Message to Canada's media: OK guys, you can stop campaigning for that Romney guy now …
David J. Climenhaga | Now, presumably, the relentlessly pro-Romney Canadian media will turn to close analysis of the popular vote down south, and explain that President Obama doesn't really have a mandate.