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Forget fighting Trump’s tariffs, just be ‘too friendly, kind and helpful to resist,’ Danielle Smith advises

Now seen from coast to coast as the weakest link in the national response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ugly tariff war on Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith took to a podium in Grande Prairie yesterday to do some reputational damage control. She trotted out a few pieties about how unfairly U.S. President Donald Trump…

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Danielle Smith, of all people, should have seen UCP problems with AI data centres coming

Danielle Smith muses about holding binding separation vote before next year’s general election

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