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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Aug 6, 2020
Good union jobs! Green jobs! UCP supporters need not panic, they’re not for anyone around here!

Good union jobs! Green jobs! UCP supporters need not panic, they’re not for anyone around here!

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Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party, friends of the union man and woman, not to mention the environment! Who would have seen that coming? Yet there was Energy Minister Sonya Savage, her words in
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Aug 5, 2020
Education minister changes tune on masks when schools reopen, but credits ‘emerging evidence,’ not public pressure

Education minister changes tune on masks when schools reopen, but credits ‘emerging evidence,’ not public pressure

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According to Education Minister Adriana LaGrange, it turns out “emerging evidence has made it clear that masks can play an important role limiting the spread of COVID-19 in our schools.” Who knew? Those were pretty
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Aug 4, 2020
Platitudes or new plan? Education minister schedules news conference this morning on back-to-school plan

Platitudes or new plan? Education minister schedules news conference this morning on back-to-school plan

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With the clock ticking down to a “near normal” mid-pandemic school reopening next month for three quarters of a million Alberta students, Education Minister Adriana LaGrange plans to provide an update this morning “on public
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Aug 3, 2020
Shocking coffee mug has conservatives clutching their pearls, political Alberta all atwitter

Shocking coffee mug has conservatives clutching their pearls, political Alberta all atwitter

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Now that right-wing snowflakes have officially made “cancel culture” a thing, let’s talk about the controversial coffee mug they’d like to cancel that rudely mentions Jason Kenney, shall we? Tout le monde political Alberta was
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Aug 2, 2020
Ottawa taps the brakes on huge coal mine expansion near Jasper National Park; Alberta’s UCP stays mum for now

Ottawa taps the brakes on huge coal mine expansion near Jasper National Park; Alberta’s UCP stays mum for now

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Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson tapped the brakes Thursday on the Vista coal mine expansion near Hinton with an announcement Ottawa will take a look at the environmental impact of the project after all. The
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David Climenhaga
Bestsellers
Aug 1, 2020
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue tops Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list for week ended July 26

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue tops Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list for week ended July 26

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, July 26, 2020. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jul 31, 2020
AHS to Pincher Creek docs: We made a mistake, we gave it to you, now we won’t take it back … and you can’t quit!

AHS to Pincher Creek docs: We made a mistake, we gave it to you, now we won’t take it back … and you can’t quit!

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Physicians in Pincher Creek who gave three months’ notice they were withdrawing from hospital service in response to Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s War on Doctors were told they had to show up for August
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jul 30, 2020
Alberta political roundup: The paper-pile premier, furious doctors, rebel ’Roser rumours, Total disaster, and more …

Alberta political roundup: The paper-pile premier, furious doctors, rebel ’Roser rumours, Total disaster, and more …

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Having rammed through two controversial bills Tuesday night, one opening the door to more health care privatization and the other eliminating workplace fairness and declaring war on unions, the Alberta Legislature wrapped up its business
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jul 29, 2020
Whatever happened to the UCP’s belligerent response to inconvenient European bankers and environmental litigators?

Whatever happened to the UCP’s belligerent response to inconvenient European bankers and environmental litigators?

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Once upon a time in Alberta if some foreign bank had dared to announce it wasn’t about to put money into any more Alberta oilsands projects there would have been a furious roar from Jason
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