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The Boy, the Horse, the Fox and the Mole by Charlie Mackesy tops independent booksellers’ Alberta Bestsellers list

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The Book Publishers Association of Alberta recently began a collaboration with BookNet Canada to release a weekly Alberta-wide list of bestselling books based on sales made in independent bookstores across the province. The broadened scope

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Dec 12, 2019

Andrew Scheer is done like dinner — What Will Jason Do?

5 mins

After an unsuccessful election campaign his supporters expected him to win, Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer has been accused by someone of dipping his paws into Conservative Party of Canada funds to pay for his children’s

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 12, 2019

The ‘War Room’ finally launches: $30-million and all we got was this lousy website?

9 mins

The mighty voice of Alberta’s beleaguered oil industry, the long promised and much-touted $30-million “Energy War Room,” stumbled out of the starting gate yesterday after a news conference in Calgary graced by the presence of

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 11, 2019

Regardless of Tyler Shandro’s promises, private clinics won’t shorten surgical wait times — they’ll make them longer

6 mins

Using private medical clinics to remedy long wait times for surgeries in Alberta’s public health care system, as the United Conservative Party Government says it expects to do, is about as likely to work as

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 10, 2019

Former Speaker Bob Wanner’s portrait, unveiled yesterday, adds a 21st Century touch to a gloomy 19th Century collection

4 mins

It’s not just Alberta’s premiers who get their portraits hung in the dingy halls of the provincial Legislature Building in Edmonton, but the Assembly’s Speakers too. Let it be said here first that the portrait

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 9, 2019

Is a ‘fair deal’ or a fare deal behind Jason Kenney’s Christmas flight to Ottawa with his entourage?

7 mins

Nobody flies to Ottawa at this time of year expecting to get anything done with the government of Canada. This is axiomatic. Remember that if you’re wondering about that planeload of Alberta Conservative cabinet ministers,

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 8, 2019

Things just keeping getting weirder in Alberta as Jason Kenney sings the Moody Blues!

6 mins

If a tree falls in the forest and Jason Kenney isn’t there to hear it, is it still the sound of European environmentalists and the Rockefellers plotting against Alberta’s ethical oil industry? Is it still

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Dec 6, 2019

30 years after the tragedy at l’École Polytechnique, politicians and media are making things worse

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the terrible massacre of 14 young women students at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, apparently shot down for the imagined crime of daring study to be engineers. One would have

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 3, 2019

What’s with the United Conservative Party’s emerging fury at nurses, of all people?

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What’s with the sudden hate on for nurses by United Conservative Party supporters? It comes from somewhere. Your average UCP internet troll doesn’t just come up with this stuff on his – or occasionally her

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Dec 14, 2019

The Boy, the Horse, the Fox and the Mole by Charlie Mackesy tops independent booksellers’ Alberta Bestsellers list

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Dec 12, 2019

Andrew Scheer is done like dinner — What Will Jason Do?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 12, 2019

The ‘War Room’ finally launches: $30-million and all we got was this lousy website?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 11, 2019

Regardless of Tyler Shandro’s promises, private clinics won’t shorten surgical wait times — they’ll make them longer

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 10, 2019

Former Speaker Bob Wanner’s portrait, unveiled yesterday, adds a 21st Century touch to a gloomy 19th Century collection

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 9, 2019

Is a ‘fair deal’ or a fare deal behind Jason Kenney’s Christmas flight to Ottawa with his entourage?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 8, 2019

Things just keeping getting weirder in Alberta as Jason Kenney sings the Moody Blues!

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Dec 6, 2019

30 years after the tragedy at l’École Polytechnique, politicians and media are making things worse

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 3, 2019

What’s with the United Conservative Party’s emerging fury at nurses, of all people?

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