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David J. Climenhaga
| The mighty Alberta PC Party -- whose ability to raise and spend money was once legendary -- is all but broke in the sense most ordinary families understand the term. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Alison Redford's political failure came down to the fact she promised to be different from the old boys, but turned out to be exactly the same. |
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David J Climenhaga
| Serious stumbling blocks on both sides to “uniting the left” derailed the idea of merging the Alberta New Democrats and Alberta Liberals, which surfaced for a time in 2012. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Officially, once again there is peace in Alberta's Tory Valley. Don't believe it for a minute! |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Two reversals at Alberta Health Services suggest the Redford Government is starting to notice growing opposition to some of its policies in smaller Alberta centres. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| By working together symbiotically to weaken the other two parties, both the Alberta NDP and the Wildrose Party hope to achieve their mutual long-term goals. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Alberta's report on health-care queue jumping, released yesterday, all but called Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman a liar -- or, to put an only slightly more kindly spin on it, a deluded fantasist. |
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David J Climenhaga
| Watch out if you’re a Liberal electrician or an NDP handyman if you've ever done a job for someone who failed to meet a mortgage payment. The PMO and Brad Wall are going to come after you! |
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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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David J. Climenhaga
| "We need a slogan, something that starts with an R and mean 'reunion' but doesn't have the word 'union' in it," said an anonymous strategist. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Opaque, obscure and cynical? Maybe. But Alberta's Progressive Conservatives appear once again to have hugged the centre right. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Taken together, two new polls suggest Albertans aren't buying what Alison Redford is trying to sell. |