Calgary lawyer David McKenzie, the winning candidate, proves again all politics are local, and that UCP endorsements may not be worth as much as some thought.
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In sure-footed move, NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi names Christina Gray as leader of the Opposition and Rakhi Pancholi as deputy NDP leader
NDP emphasis will now be winning support in the community, not crafting the perfect zinger in Question Period, new leader says.
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Slam dunk! Naheed Nenshi posts crushing 86% victory in Alberta NDP leadership race
The Alberta NDP isn’t the same party it was yesterday – and members old and new have made it unequivocally clear that’s exactly what they wanted.
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Are you alright, Alberta? The rest of Canada wants to know! If you’re not, they’ll be happy to take your doctors!
We’re not making this up: At least five government MLAs turned up for an anti-vaxx misinformation event sponsored by a UCP constituency association!
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Tantrum over Bill C-59 displays two key flaws of the UCP – no clue how to govern, or how to negotiate
If the UCP can’t win on the first pitch, it pitches a fit!
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Citing ‘uncertainty’ about Bill C-59’s environmental truth-in-advertising provision, Pathways Alliance pulls all content from its website
The modest anti-greenwashing amendment to the Competition Act included in the federal bill is proving to be surprisingly impactful.
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Why capture carbon when it’s so much easier to capture a government?
The logic of capitalism is relentless: it will always choose maximum profit no matter the ultimate consequences.
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Columnist: Calgary mayor walks on water? We have proof she can’t swim!
If Calgary’s current mayor makes him so mad, columnist Rick Bell could always dust off his old campaign fedora and take another run at her job.
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Danielle Smith says she wants to skim Heritage Fund investment revenues to ‘de-risk’ fossil fuel investments lenders won’t touch
Back in February she promised to use the fund to get Alberta off the royalty rollercoaster – so much for that plan!
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So! It really was the anti-greenwashing provision in Ottawa’s Bill C-59 that pushed the UCP into shutting down the War Room
The principal business of Canadian Energy Centre Ltd. was propaganda, and propaganda about petroleum extraction inevitably tends toward greenwashing.
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The Alberta Energy War Room is no more – except for the FOIPs that are bound to follow its demise
The announcement, planned by the UCP for tomorrow, was scooped by NDP leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley.
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Shannon Phillips to quit as MLA, citing the disinformation and viciousness women are subjected to in public life
The former NDP environment minister, illegally spied upon by never-charged Lethbridge Police officers, will step down on July 1.