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David J. Climenhaga
| Don't count on resales of unused pipe from the Keystone XL pipeline offsetting much of Alberta's "investment" in Premier Jason Kenney's $1.5-billion bad bet. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| If Andrew Scheer is unprepared to deal with the separatist contagion in his caucus, the Conservative Party of Canada will be dismissed as nothing more than a Prairie province bloc. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is making up parliamentary conventions to suit himself, and Albertans are likely to be angry no matter the outcome of today's federal election. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| If Jason Kenney is serious about achieving a destiny as prime minister of Canada, he's going to have to stop giving the impression he's a separatist, isn't he? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Support for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's peer-reviewed grant application-review process appears to cross political lines. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Announcements that don't contain much news are absolutely a staple of democratic politics, and Conservatives are masters of the art form. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Pope Francis, leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, has declared global warming to be a real thing and putting a price on carbon to be "essential" to saving the planet. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Is "Ottawa, we have a problem" on those Tory blue advertisements about a pipeline, or a government? If the latter, why are our tax dollars paying for it? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Since it has now been clearly established that B.C. cannot control what goes through a federally regulated pipeline, a strong argument can now be made that neither can Alberta. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Right now we seem to be headed for an intramural game of chicken between Ottawa and Edmonton. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Thanks to the work done by outgoing Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, support for the TMX in Canada has probably reached its high-water mark. It has nowhere to go but down. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The economics of the pipeline project were always pretty dubious, and remain so, despite enormous political capital invested by numerous political players. |