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Paul Parks, ER physician and prominent defender of public health care, seeks NDP nomination in Cypress-Medicine Hat

Paul Parks, a Medicine Hat Emergency Room physician and one of best known advocates for Alberta’s public health care system, announced his intention this afternoon to seek the NDP nomination in the Cypress-Medicine Hat Riding where he lives. If the former president of the Alberta Medical Association gets the nomination, he will square off in…

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In frenzied moment, Danielle Smith and UCP move to discipline party rebels and distract from party problems

Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea!

Has Danielle Smith just relegated the UCP to the Boneyard of Broken Alberta Political Brands?

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