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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jul 1, 2020
Happy Canada Day! Or, as the UCP would have it in some corners of rural Alberta, Grumpy Dominion Day

Happy Canada Day! Or, as the UCP would have it in some corners of rural Alberta, Grumpy Dominion Day

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Happy Canada Day! Alberta is the only place in Canada, I’d wager, where someone who was barely out of diapers when our country’s national holiday was renamed Canada Day would make the point they really
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 30, 2020
The Kenney Government’s recovery plan — in times like these, we’re all Keynesians, up to a point, anyway

The Kenney Government’s recovery plan — in times like these, we’re all Keynesians, up to a point, anyway

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It’s not actually true that that everything was just copacetic in Alberta when COVID-19 kicked down the door and started smashing up the dishes. But you’ve got to give Travis Toews some credit for his
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 29, 2020
Public service managers’ return-to-workplace guide outlines plan to return public employees to government offices

Public service managers’ return-to-workplace guide outlines plan to return public employees to government offices

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With talk that managers of Alberta’s public service are likely to be back in their offices next Monday preparing for the return of most of the rest of the government’s direct employees to their workplaces
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 28, 2020
Ecojustice vows to press ahead with legal action against Kenney Government’s environmental funding inquiry

Ecojustice vows to press ahead with legal action against Kenney Government’s environmental funding inquiry

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While a date has not yet been set for a hearing, Ecojustice Canada Society is pressing ahead with the legal action it announced last September against the Kenney Government’s secretive “public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 27, 2020
Kenney’s controversial speechwriter listed as CEO of federal Conservatives’ Edmonton Strathcona constituency association

Kenney’s controversial speechwriter listed as CEO of federal Conservatives’ Edmonton Strathcona constituency association

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Given the uproar over an article widely perceived as expressing racist sentiments by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s speechwriter, it will be interesting to see how the Conservative Party of Canada reacts to the fact Paul
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 26, 2020
It seems Alberta’s inquiry hasn’t found any foreign-funded anti-energy campaigns yet, but it’ll keep looking!

It seems Alberta’s inquiry hasn’t found any foreign-funded anti-energy campaigns yet, but it’ll keep looking!

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I’m sorry to have to report, Alberta, that the inquiry into foreign-funded campaigns targeting Alberta’s oil and gas industry apparently hasn’t found any foreign-funded campaigns targeting Alberta’s oil and gas industry. Don’t worry, though, they’re
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 25, 2020
Referenda are ‘a device for dictators and demagogues’ — but never mind about that, Alberta, or who said it …

Referenda are ‘a device for dictators and demagogues’ — but never mind about that, Alberta, or who said it …

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Referenda, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher once observed, “are a device for dictators and demagogues.” I mention this in light of Alberta’s new referendum legislation — Bill 26, the Constitutional Referendum Amendment Act — which
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 24, 2020
State-supported academic research in Alberta should be about more than Making Oil & Gas Great Again

State-supported academic research in Alberta should be about more than Making Oil & Gas Great Again

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As Alberta launches its 10-year plan for “transformational change” in post-secondary education, a new study suggests the province’s universities and the government agencies that fund them are helping to prolong the worst aspects of the
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jun 23, 2020
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees goes to court to challenge UCP law that criminalizes public protest

Alberta Union of Provincial Employees goes to court to challenge UCP law that criminalizes public protest

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It was inevitable that sooner or later someone would challenge the United Conservative Party Government’s so-called Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, which appears on its face to include patently unconstitutional attacks on fundamental rights protected by
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