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A Family Day toast to Don Getty, whose record is underwhelming, but whose best-known achievement was one for the ages

by David ClimenhagaFebruary 17, 2020February 17, 2020

The winters around here are long. Even with social media Canadians need a February holiday. Come to think of it, given what the Internet has turned into in the few years since it arrived on the scene with such promise, we need a February long weekend even more than we did in the dark ages […]

Posted inAlberta Politics

A holiday toast to Don Getty, the father of Family Day, even if it was pretty much the only thing he achieved in office

by David ClimenhagaFebruary 17, 2019
Posted inAlberta Politics

Topp spin: Alberta premier’s departing chief of staff gives his final report to media with an eye to history

by David ClimenhagaDecember 15, 2016
Posted inAlberta Politics

Doff hats to Don Getty, father of Family Day – too bad about that August holiday

by David ClimenhagaFebruary 15, 2016
Posted inAlberta Politics

Wildrose Party wins Calgary-Foothills by-election, and fairly decisively, but leaves plenty of grist for the mill

by David ClimenhagaSeptember 4, 2015September 4, 2015
Posted inAlberta Politics

Controversial Wildrose leaflet had similarities to B.C. Liberals’ Chinese-language ads smearing NDP

by David ClimenhagaSeptember 3, 2015
Posted inAlberta Politics

Will Wildrose Leader Brian Jean repudiate his Calgary-Foothills candidate’s ‘communist’ characterization of the NDP?

by David ClimenhagaSeptember 2, 2015
Posted inAlberta Politics

NDP strength in Calgary-Foothills riding suggests May 5 election was no fluke – and could rattle federal Tory narrative

by David ClimenhagaAugust 26, 2015September 2, 2015
Posted inAlberta Politics

Between a rock and a hard place in Calgary-Foothills, foundering PCs’ second-best hope is an NDP victory on Sept. 3

by David ClimenhagaAugust 11, 2015August 11, 2015
Posted inAlberta Politics

New Democrats to have real nomination battle in Calgary-Foothills riding

by David ClimenhagaJuly 2, 2015July 3, 2015
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