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No way Conservatives will admit they look foolish for calls to legislate CN strikers back to work

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Now that a tentative agreement in the national strike by 3,200 CN yard workers and train crew members has been reached in collective bargaining as God and the Canada Industrial Relations Board both intended, you’d

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 26, 2019

Alberta union leaders summoned to provocative weekend ‘consultation’ by Kenney Government

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Alberta union leaders have been summoned to a “labour relations consultation” next weekend in Edmonton at which they will be informed how Premier Jason Kenney’s government plans to “protect workers from being forced to fund

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 25, 2019

Booing Alberta’s premier at public events like Sunday’s Grey Cup — let’s make it a Battle of Alberta thing!

5 mins

Is the United Conservative Party’s honeymoon over? God knows, it ought to be. Sadly, though, it’s probably not. Yet. Just the same, it was mildly encouraging to hear a few boos for Alberta Premier Jason

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Nov 24, 2019

What media mostly misses about the national rail strike by CN train crews and yard workers

10 mins

Here in Alberta, what news coverage there has been about the strike for safer working conditions by Canadian National Railway train crews and rail yard workers has focused on the increasingly agitated calls by Conservative

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David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Nov 23, 2019

Author-illustrator Mike Boldt’s Bad Dog tops Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestseller List for week ended Nov. 17

2 mins

Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Nov. 17, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta.

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 22, 2019

UCP to give Alberta government ‘a giant enema,’ minister of ‘red tape reduction’ proclaims

8 mins

Grant Hunter, associate minister in charge of Alberta’s ministry of “red tape reduction,” got up on his hind legs in the Legislature Wednesday evening and proclaimed that the intention of the United Conservative Party majority

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 21, 2019

Being kicked out of the Legislature means never having to say you’re sorry

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Apparently, being kicked out of the Alberta Legislature means never having to say you’re sorry! Judging by the smile on her face yesterday morning as a crowd of more than 800 Registered Nurses furious at

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Nov 20, 2019

From the first nail in the Velvet Coffin to the death of Star Metro — the decline of Alberta’s newspapers

9 mins

The bad news was delivered on social media yesterday by employees of Star Metro newspapers in cities outside Ontario. Whatever was behind the Toronto Star’s decision in April 2018 to hire real journalists and publish

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 19, 2019

If you’re shocked by the firing of Alberta’s Election Commissioner, you shouldn’t be

7 mins

If you’re shocked that Jason Kenney’s Government has effectively just fired the guy who’s been investigating the sleazy Kamikaze Campaign that preceded the premier’s choice as leader of the United Conservative Party in 2017, you

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Nov 27, 2019

No way Conservatives will admit they look foolish for calls to legislate CN strikers back to work

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 26, 2019

Alberta union leaders summoned to provocative weekend ‘consultation’ by Kenney Government

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 25, 2019

Booing Alberta’s premier at public events like Sunday’s Grey Cup — let’s make it a Battle of Alberta thing!

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Nov 24, 2019

What media mostly misses about the national rail strike by CN train crews and yard workers

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Nov 23, 2019

Author-illustrator Mike Boldt’s Bad Dog tops Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestseller List for week ended Nov. 17

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 22, 2019

UCP to give Alberta government ‘a giant enema,’ minister of ‘red tape reduction’ proclaims

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 21, 2019

Being kicked out of the Legislature means never having to say you’re sorry

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Nov 20, 2019

From the first nail in the Velvet Coffin to the death of Star Metro — the decline of Alberta’s newspapers

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Nov 19, 2019

If you’re shocked by the firing of Alberta’s Election Commissioner, you shouldn’t be

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