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Riding high in the polls, B.C.’s New Democrat premier calls a snap election — the right, predictably, whinges

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VICTORIA — Strangely, all those conservatives who are anxious to get us back to school and business as soon as possible didn’t seem to be very happy yesterday when B.C. Premier John Horgan called a

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We have met the enemy and he is us — Alberta in the midst of a climate damn emergency

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VICTORIA — The world is waking up to the fact the climate emergency is, well, an emergency. This certainly isn’t good news for Alberta, although, perversely, it may be good news in the short term

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Alberta takes over as Canada’s political Crazytown; privatized health care suffers a setback

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VICTORIA — When I was growing up here in Lotusland, British Columbia had the reputation of being the Crazytown of Canadian politics. The late Allan Fotheringham, the Vancouver Sun columnist we all read religiously, famously

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Alberta Politics

Sep 1, 2020

Order saying Alberta schools won’t have to enforce social distancing lands like a sucker punch

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Whoever it was in the Alberta Government that decided it would be a good idea to risk springing the news on the public that COVID-19 social distancing rules won’t apply to classrooms just hours before

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Aug 31, 2020

Death toll from fall of Montreal statue still stands at zero, but apoplectic Wexiters may be at risk

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The death toll from the fall of John A. Macdonald’s statue in Montreal Saturday still stands at zero, the gods be praised. One would have thought it was much higher, however, given all the outraged

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Aug 30, 2020

Kaycee Madu, no stellar cabinet performer, is promoted to where he can do less harm; other stars fall

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Kaycee Madu, possibly Alberta’s least successful cabinet member in the estimation of his portfolio’s key stakeholders, as Alberta justice minister? Who saw that coming? Of the three major political events affecting Alberta that took place

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Aug 20, 2020

So long and see you soon — AlbertaPolitics.ca will shut down for a week

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AlbertaPolitics.ca is shutting down for a week. I expect to be without a wifi connection for much of the next seven days, so if there are posts at all on this blog, they will be

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Aug 19, 2020

If Press Gallery membership for the Rebel is so important, why are Postmedia reporters still in the gallery in Ottawa?

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What are we to make of the peculiar fact that Postmedia reporters still occupy their comfortable chairs in the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa? A quick scroll through the national Press Gallery’s comparatively informative

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Aug 18, 2020

The empire strikes back: Understanding the UCP obsession with how history is taught

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Anyone who wonders what inspires the United Conservative Party Government’s peculiar obsession with how history ought to be taught, and to what end, probably needs to look no further than Christian P. Champion. Dr. Champion,

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Sep 22, 2020

Riding high in the polls, B.C.’s New Democrat premier calls a snap election — the right, predictably, whinges

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Sep 17, 2020

We have met the enemy and he is us — Alberta in the midst of a climate damn emergency

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Sep 11, 2020

Alberta takes over as Canada’s political Crazytown; privatized health care suffers a setback

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Aug 31, 2020

Death toll from fall of Montreal statue still stands at zero, but apoplectic Wexiters may be at risk

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Aug 30, 2020

Kaycee Madu, no stellar cabinet performer, is promoted to where he can do less harm; other stars fall

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Aug 20, 2020

So long and see you soon — AlbertaPolitics.ca will shut down for a week

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Aug 19, 2020

If Press Gallery membership for the Rebel is so important, why are Postmedia reporters still in the gallery in Ottawa?

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