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David J. Climenhaga
| The former Alberta finance minister did get one thing right in his Calgary Herald article: If Alberta is to survive its current bust it's going to need a sales tax. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Voices from the ancien regime: Jason Kenney has published a list of 50 former MLAs who support him. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Alison Redford may not have intended to, but she smashed the mould. Alberta politics will never be the same again. It all started five years ago today. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Ye shall know them by their friends … and some of Jason Kenney's are pretty interesting to contemplate. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| It's been almost nine months now. Surely it's time for Alberta conservatives to get up to speed on how this democracy thing works! |
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David J. Climenhaga
| It is hard to believe that much non-partisan, independent academic scholarship takes place in the atmosphere encouraged at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| If interim PC Leader Ric McIver is serious about rebuilding his party, he needs to start listening more carefully to what former premier Ed Stelmach has to say. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| A sales tax? In Alberta? Alberta Premier Jim Prentice has obviously taken former finance minister Ted Morton's advice to heart that "this fiscal crisis is too good to waste." |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The PC Party board of directors voted on Saturday to have all their candidates nominated by the Ides of March. After that, a vote is bound to follow quickly. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Yesterday's bungled Bill 10 brouhaha reveals Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is just another politician who puts his pants on one leg at a time … backwards. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Watch out! The fight to save public services, fair pensions for the people who deliver them, and the very idea of a public sector is far from over in Alberta. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| If Ric McIver were to beat Jim Prentice for the Tory crown, he'd be the third candidate in a row not favoured by the party establishment to pull off the feat, fourth if you count Ralph Klein. |