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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Feb 9, 2019
Paperwork SNAFU! Elections Alberta says Stephen Mandel can’t run! Alberta Party lawyers say he can! Stand by for video!

Paperwork SNAFU! Elections Alberta says Stephen Mandel can’t run! Alberta Party lawyers say he can! Stand by for video!

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This just in! Elections Alberta’s updated list of candidates ineligible to run as candidates or serve as chief elections officers includes at least one name most Albertans will recognize. To wit: Stephen Mandel. Yes, that
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David Climenhaga
Geopolitics
Feb 8, 2019
Has anyone thought about the impact regime change in Venezuela will have on Alberta’s oilpatch? It won’t be pretty!

Has anyone thought about the impact regime change in Venezuela will have on Alberta’s oilpatch? It won’t be pretty!

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In the stampede by Canadian politicians of all ideological stripes to support Venezuela’s self-declared “interim president,” has anyone given even a nanosecond’s thought to the impact the handover of the troubled South American petrostate’s government
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David Climenhaga
Bestsellers
Feb 7, 2019
Eye of the Beholder, a mystery by Edmonton’s Janice MacDonald, returns to top of Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestseller List

Eye of the Beholder, a mystery by Edmonton’s Janice MacDonald, returns to top of Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestseller List

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 3, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Feb 6, 2019
Former Alberta immigration minister asks federal immigration minister for investigation of UCP candidate’s alleged immigration practices

Former Alberta immigration minister asks federal immigration minister for investigation of UCP candidate’s alleged immigration practices

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Former Alberta employment and immigration minister Thomas Lukaszuk has written federal immigration minister Ahmed Hussen urging him to open a formal investigation into serious allegations a temporary foreign worker was improperly treated by a business
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Feb 5, 2019
Unveiling of portrait of Jim Prentice, premier of Alberta, accompanied by warm words and a non-partisan moment

Unveiling of portrait of Jim Prentice, premier of Alberta, accompanied by warm words and a non-partisan moment

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A dignified official portrait of Jim Prentice, last Progressive Conservative premier of Alberta, was unveiled in the Alberta Legislature yesterday. It’s a very nice piece of official portraiture that does justice to the beautiful third-floor
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Feb 4, 2019
UCP Leader Jason Kenney, political lifer elected at 29, mocks 29-year-old NDP candidate with sophomoric and offensive joke

UCP Leader Jason Kenney, political lifer elected at 29, mocks 29-year-old NDP candidate with sophomoric and offensive joke

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I hear, “a gay 19 year old.” Quite clearly. I speak, of course, of Jason Kenney’s notorious cheap shot in Cochrane last Thursday, in which he mischaracterized the NDP’s newly acclaimed candidate in the Airdrie-Cochrane
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Feb 3, 2019
What gives? Polite crowd, no visible security, no official UCP critics at Edmonton open house for Bighorn Park proposal

What gives? Polite crowd, no visible security, no official UCP critics at Edmonton open house for Bighorn Park proposal

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I can’t tell you about the one in Drayton Valley on Friday, but everything seemed copacetic at the Bighorn Wildland Provincial Park proposal open house in Edmonton yesterday afternoon. But what would you expect? As
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David Climenhaga
Canadian Politics
Feb 1, 2019
NDP governments’ approaches to health care funding characterized by fiscal prudence, new study says

NDP governments’ approaches to health care funding characterized by fiscal prudence, new study says

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Who knew? The facts don’t support the myth that New Democratic Party governments always try to break the bank with health care spending! Just as NDP governments have a better fiscal record than all other
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jan 31, 2019
Supreme Court says bankrupt corporations’ assets must pay for environmental cleanup first, pay off debtors later

Supreme Court says bankrupt corporations’ assets must pay for environmental cleanup first, pay off debtors later

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CALGARY Stand by for a veritable tempest of wailing about “activist judges” from banking, oil industry and conservative quarters, now that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled bankrupt fossil fuel companies can’t use federal
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