AFL president for nearly 20 years, Gil McGowan pitched a strategy of wooing back working-class voters.
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Alberta NDP now has more than 85,000 members, party says; Gil McGowan drops out of leadership race
Commentators credit former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi’s campaign with much of the growth.
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Were the presidents of Alberta’s two largest universities pushed to call the cops to remove Gaza protesters, or did they jump?
If they jumped, they need to be held responsible – if they were pushed, we need to know by whom.
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A timely message to our many anti-woke friends and acquaintances: Sorry about yer Rex Murphy!
If the ugly mood yesterday in that slough of despond known as X is anything to go by, Rex Murphy’s passing seems to have both unmanned and unhinged his many admirers on the right.
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It’s never too early to panic! UCP introduces bill to extend its term and ‘control everything, everywhere, all at once’
It turns out the party of habitual climate change denial can read the smouldering auguries as well as anyone.
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Naheed Nenshi’s 2019 letter asking UCP to suspend unionized Calgary employees’ contract rights sparks sharp rebukes
Instead of apologizing for making a mere mistake, the former Calgary mayor’s response seemed slippery.
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Environmental action then and now in Alberta – don’t hold your breath waiting for promises to be kept
Alberta says it has struck a new committee “to help reclaim tailings ponds” in the province’s oilsands, eventually.
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Another little flaw with Bill 20: It’s not just bad law, it’ll probably make life hell for UCP backbenchers
The Pottery Barn Rule is about to come to Alberta politics – here’s how …
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May 6, 2015: Alberta awakes to the realization it’s just elected a majority NDP government, surprising everyone, including the NDP
Nine years ago on this day, Albertans realized something had changed and some things would never be the same again.
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High-speed rail in Alberta: STILL a terrible idea that won’t go away!
The distraction might work because Albertans have a romantic attachment to the rails and an enthusiasm for new-fangled technology.
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UCP executes screeching reversal of plan to stop funding low-income transit pass program
Today’s flip-flop had to be the result of thousands of Albertans picking up their phones and yelling at their UCP MLAs.
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Edmonton and Calgary mayors appear gobsmacked by unexpected UCP move to slash funds to low-income transit pass program
The Smith Government’s War on Everything appears to be shifting focus to Alberta’s big cities.