STICKY POST

France is in turmoil and all we hear is crickets — what gives?

8 mins

France is in turmoil and all we hear is crickets. What gives? The government of President Emmanuel Macron has introduced a scheme to overhaul pensions and retirement benefits for many workers, done as usual in

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 12, 2020

S.O.S. for secession? Only about 150 make it to frigid Wexit rally at Alberta Legislature Building

6 mins

Judging from the underwhelming turnout at its “S.O.S.” rally in Edmonton yesterday, Alberta’s minuscule Wexit faction might want to reconsider its demand for a separation referendum right now. Leastways, Wexit supporters should probably rethink the

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Jan 11, 2020

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, old but still good, tops independent booksellers’ Alberta fiction bestsellers list

56 secs

Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 10, 2020

Loudest message from Fort Saskatchewan ‘Fair Deal Panel’ town hall? Hands off our CPP!

7 mins

The visit of Premier Jason Kenney’s “Fair Deal Panel” to Fort Saskatchewan, an industrial oil town just northeast of Edmonton, may have been intended to be a separatist open-mike night when it was added as

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 9, 2020

Canadians want answers about tragic Iran air crash, but Canada has little influence with no embassy in Tehran

5 mins

In the wake of yesterday’s air tragedy in Iran that took the lives of at least 63 Canadians, nearly half of them from Edmonton, and many others bound for Canada, all Canadians want and deserve

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 8, 2020

There’s nothing like the United Nations putting its oar in to make the locals go loco in Alberta!

7 mins

If we ever do form the Western Wepublic of Wexit out here in Wild Rose Country, I guess we won’t be able to join the United Nations. Too triggering. There’s just something about the UN

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 7, 2020

NDP assails Alberta Energy War Room for ‘gross incompetence’ — but is that such a bad thing?

6 mins

Having swallowed much of the United Conservative Party’s unlikely conspiracy theory about what supposedly ails the Alberta oilpatch during its term in office makes it harder for the NDP to convincingly criticize the Kenney Government’s

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 6, 2020

Get used to it, Alberta, the world is learning how to talk about climate change

6 mins

Remember the anger in Alberta in 2016 when some observers connected the dots between the fire that spring in Fort McMurray and the phenomenon known as global warming? Such statements were denounced as outrageous. Also

STICKY POST

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 3, 2020

Linda Silas, president of Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, announces bid to lead Canadian Labour Congress

6 mins

Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions representing 200,000 nurses across Canada, formally announced today she will seek the presidency of the Canadian Labour Congress. This doesn’t come as a thunderbolt out

David Climenhaga

Geopolitics

Jan 14, 2020

France is in turmoil and all we hear is crickets — what gives?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 12, 2020

S.O.S. for secession? Only about 150 make it to frigid Wexit rally at Alberta Legislature Building

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Jan 11, 2020

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, old but still good, tops independent booksellers’ Alberta fiction bestsellers list

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 10, 2020

Loudest message from Fort Saskatchewan ‘Fair Deal Panel’ town hall? Hands off our CPP!

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 9, 2020

Canadians want answers about tragic Iran air crash, but Canada has little influence with no embassy in Tehran

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 8, 2020

There’s nothing like the United Nations putting its oar in to make the locals go loco in Alberta!

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 7, 2020

NDP assails Alberta Energy War Room for ‘gross incompetence’ — but is that such a bad thing?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 6, 2020

Get used to it, Alberta, the world is learning how to talk about climate change

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 3, 2020

Linda Silas, president of Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, announces bid to lead Canadian Labour Congress

Support ALBERTAPOLITICS.CA

Categories