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David J. Climenhaga
| Being away from Alberta 20 years and not noticing it's changed is the most charitable explanation for Jason Kenney's call to effectively out gay students who wish to join GSAs. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Former Progressive Leadership candidate Stephen Khan says there's "something" about Jason Kenney's campaign that attracts bigots and extremists. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| George Clark's idea, while unlikely to be a success, is not so different from the strategy used by some groups frequently at loggerheads with PC policy over the years. |
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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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David J. Climenhaga
| Displaced journos from the Edmonton Sun are about to find a new home in the Edmonton Journal building as the merger of Postmedia and Sun Media proceeds apace. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The idea of a high-speed rail line between Edmonton and Calgary fails for three principal reasons: huge energy needs, major environmental damage and poor financial prospects. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The decision by Premier Alison Redford's PC Party to abandon its winning centrist alliance to woo its most reactionary elements makes political change in Alberta more likely, not less so. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The XL Foods catastrophe keeps getting worse. But from our governments, all we hear is bland assurances that there’s nothing to worry about and complaints about "too much" regulation. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The NDP mini-surge offers voters in the Edmonton area a way to punish the Tories for years of arrogance without unleashing a Wildrose Apocalypse. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Edmontonians were genuinely shocked to learn from the province that the federal government had pulled $92 million in promised money for a downtown museum, killing the project. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| It wouldn't be fair to describe as mere 'bad luck' for the government two intriguing stories both involving $450,000 lawsuits against Alberta officials. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The Alberta political landscape remains gloomy for those who hope for genuinely progressive change at the provincial level. |