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Notice to public employees: Jason Kenney and the UCP are eyeing your pensions again

10 mins

If you’re a public employee in Alberta and you’ve been deferring your salary for years to build a secure retirement through your modest pension, Jason Kenney would like to take it away. If he can’t

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A question begged: Where were the UCP’s top operatives if they weren’t vetting candidates?

7 mins

Apparently someone in the United Conservative Party could run a sophisticated vote-diversion scheme but the party didn’t have the technical wherewithal to operate a simple candidate vetting process capable of eliminating candidates with a high

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 10, 2019

Now for something completely different: The Agenda with Steve Paikin … and Yours Truly

2 mins

’Tis late, it’s been a long day, and your blogger is tired, so I’m going to leave you, dear readers, with some audio and visual commentary on next week’s Alberta election to chew over this

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 9, 2019

The declining impact of ‘bozo eruptions’ – are Albertans the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water?

7 mins

Have Albertans grown so inured to Conservative “bozo eruptions” they no longer have much impact? To put that another way, have we grown so accustomed to the Lake of Fire that we imagine we can

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Apr 7, 2019

An election’s coming and the PM’s treading water – where’s a Russian to blame now that we need one?

7 mins

It was a year ago Friday that the government of Canada declared Kirill Kalinin and three other Russian diplomats persona non grata and sent them packing for using, in the words of Prime Minister Justin

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David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Apr 6, 2019

There Are Not Enough Sad Songs, poetry by Marita Dachsel, tops Audreys Books Fiction Bestseller List

2 mins

Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended March 31, 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

Apr 5, 2019

Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney escape relatively unscathed in Alberta election leaders’ debate

5 mins

Last night’s Alberta election leaders’ debate was an unedifying experience, as these things often are. If anyone except hard-core political junkies kept their hands off the remote, I’d be surprised. Debate stuck to talking points

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 4, 2019

Were Mark Smith’s comments on gay love a Lake of Fire moment for the UCP, or just another insignificant bozo eruption?

11 mins

With the revelation United Conservative Party candidate Mark Smith holds the offensive view gay love can never be real love, and equates LGBTQ people with pedophiles, it appeared that Alberta’s United Conservative Party was finally

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 3, 2019

A generation of impulsive right-wing politicians ruins Preston Manning’s dream of ‘green capitalism’ – what’s next?

9 mins

Let’s start with a pop quiz. Who said this? “One of the biggest issues will be the question of how much of current revenue from non-renewable resources should be saved and how those savings should

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 12, 2019

Notice to public employees: Jason Kenney and the UCP are eyeing your pensions again

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 11, 2019

A question begged: Where were the UCP’s top operatives if they weren’t vetting candidates?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 10, 2019

Now for something completely different: The Agenda with Steve Paikin … and Yours Truly

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 9, 2019

The declining impact of ‘bozo eruptions’ – are Albertans the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water?

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Apr 7, 2019

An election’s coming and the PM’s treading water – where’s a Russian to blame now that we need one?

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Apr 6, 2019

There Are Not Enough Sad Songs, poetry by Marita Dachsel, tops Audreys Books Fiction Bestseller List

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 5, 2019

Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney escape relatively unscathed in Alberta election leaders’ debate

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 4, 2019

Were Mark Smith’s comments on gay love a Lake of Fire moment for the UCP, or just another insignificant bozo eruption?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Apr 3, 2019

A generation of impulsive right-wing politicians ruins Preston Manning’s dream of ‘green capitalism’ – what’s next?

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