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David J. Climenhaga
| In a dire situation like this, the deep-pocketed Alberta Conservatives can be counted upon to fight as hard and dirty to try to make sure the Wildrose surge is stamped out. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| It's pretty clear that Alberta Conservative MLA Ray Prins would have become the excruciating focus of voter outrage if he'd stuck around. So someone decided he had to walk the plank. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| So far in her short career as Alberta Premier, Alison Redford seems to have been coated with a layer of Teflon deep enough to have been donated by Ralph Klein! |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Alberta's vast amounts of petroleum wealth aren't going to health care, education, public services or personal incomes. They're going to corporate profits at an astonishing rate. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| A strong case can be made that the results of yesterday's Leger poll are much more likely to be a true reflection of voter intentions in Alberta than a group of polls touted by the Wildrose Party. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, about the Alberta Liberals, the B.C. Liberals, and all the other conservative parties from the two western-most provinces. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| If you are looking for proof the Liberal Party of Canada had lost faith in its own future and is grasping at straws to survive, the adoption of this anyone-can-vote-for-the-leader rule is it. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Only the NDP on the left and the Wildrose Party on the right are in a position to challenge Alberta Premier Alison Redford's Tories with a full slate of candidates. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Glenn Taylor, after seven disappointing months as leader of the Alberta Party, announced yesterday he's quitting as mayor of Hinton. Maybe now he'll start to campaign seriously in his riding. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| It would seem that under Premier Alison Redford, when it comes to seniors' care at least, very little has changed since Ed Stelmach was premier. |
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David J Climenhaga
| The latest Alberta political poll, reported in the National Post, just doesn't make any sense. Nor does the Post's analysis of it. They're both likely wrong. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The Alberta Party is all but finished. Philosophically committed to the kind of Alberta Premier Alison Redford more energetically articulates, justification for its existence has disappeared. |