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David J. Climenhaga
| Jason Kenney may not be the most likeable premier in Alberta history, but he is more ruthless than anyone we have seen in the premier's office for a long time. Ruthless enough to put down a rebellion. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Unlike the attention devoted to young men's unemployment, issues surrounding women's employment rates attract hostility from the UCP and inattention from media. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Cabinet ministers at Premier Jason Kenney's news conference about health-care spending yesterday behaved themselves. Some government MLAs, not so much. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| In the 2021 Alberta budget, the University of Alberta's grant has been slashed by 11 per cent, or $60.1 million. Also: another tiki-torch march; former MLA Janice Sarich remembered. |
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David Climenhaga
| If you want to know how quickly front-line pandemic heroes turn into back-of-the-line zeroes in Jason Kenney's Alberta, the answers are in Thursday's provincial budget. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The big business guys never quite come out and advise Jason Kenney and the UCP to run Alberta like Rachel Notley's NDP did. But that's what they're doing. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Jason Kenney's commentary about Saturday's tiki-torch protest in Edmonton wasn't quite a full-throated Trumpian defence of "very fine people," but surely boils down to the same thing. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Whether or not Ecojustice is winning in court is impossible to say. But the group is certainly well ahead in the Canadian court of public opinion. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The only way the UCP's stubborn persistence with this policy really makes sense is if it sets the stage for something else, to wit, privatization of the provincial ambulance service. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Roses are red, violets are blue, stay for the ratio, what else can you do? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| There are circumstances when acts of defiance are absolutely necessary, said Wood Buffalo Mayor Don Scott in Fort McMurray. "I challenge the provincial government to remove me." |
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David J. Climenhaga
| It's pretty clear that the Alberta premier's decision to finally hand out the predominantly federal cash was a desperate attempt to change the channel on his recent string of political disasters. |