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Foresight is 2020: It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without a Top Ten List of political predictions

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This year, foresight is 2020! It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten Political Predictions for 2020, so your blogger will gaze into his crystal ball one more time and tell you what’s

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 27, 2019

For the 12th anniversary of AlbertaPolitics.ca, here’s a Top Ten List of Alberta political stories in 2019

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Today marks the 12th anniversary of the first post published on this blog, known at the time as St. Albert Diary. Later, for a long spell, it was Alberta Diary, and still retains that name

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 26, 2019

The Energy War Room’s crack team isn’t exactly ‘cookin’ with gas’

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Should we be worried about operatives employed by the Alberta Government’s public-private Energy War Room masquerading as journalists? Of course we should. But it’s also OK to be amused by the astonishing ineptitude with which

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 23, 2019

Happy Holidays! Alberta’s economic prospects may underwhelm, but at least you can spin them as you like!

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Happy Holidays! At this time last year, it looked as if Santa would bring something for everyone in Alberta, regardless of their political orientation. This year, though, maybe not so much. Lumps of carbon-dioxide-emitting coal,

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David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Dec 21, 2019

Keeper’n Me, by the late Richard Wagamese, leads independent booksellers’ Alberta Bestsellers List

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019. This will be the last bestsellers list produced by

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 20, 2019

Annals of the Energy War Room: Square-pipeline logo to be dumped like a bad first date

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The Alberta Energy War Room’s logo will be unceremoniously dumped like a bad first date. It turns out the iconic square-pipeline symbol that was supposedly rustled up just for Canadian Energy Centre Ltd., as the

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 19, 2019

Rebranded ‘War Room’ aims for ‘measured tone’ in riposte to acerbic Medicine Hat News column, doesn’t quite succeed

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All the Alberta Government’s rebranded Energy War Room is trying to do, pleaded Managing Director Tom Olsen yesterday in his much anticipated riposte to an acerbic column last week in the Medicine Hat News, is

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 18, 2019

No more pipelines? Another day, another UCP talking point exposed as codswallop

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Another day, another Alberta Government talking point exposed as codswallop. Yesterday, we compared and contrasted what the United Conservative Party Government used to say about the former NDP government’s carbon tax with reality. Viz., it

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 17, 2019

That’s embarrassing! Alberta’s court filing in carbon tax fight says NDP carbon tax did no harm

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The linked weekend revelations that the NDP’s carbon tax had no meaningful negative impact on Alberta’s economy and that 40 per cent of Albertans received carbon-tax rebates larger than the tax they paid were ill

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 31, 2019

Foresight is 2020: It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without a Top Ten List of political predictions

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 27, 2019

For the 12th anniversary of AlbertaPolitics.ca, here’s a Top Ten List of Alberta political stories in 2019

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 26, 2019

The Energy War Room’s crack team isn’t exactly ‘cookin’ with gas’

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 23, 2019

Happy Holidays! Alberta’s economic prospects may underwhelm, but at least you can spin them as you like!

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Dec 21, 2019

Keeper’n Me, by the late Richard Wagamese, leads independent booksellers’ Alberta Bestsellers List

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 20, 2019

Annals of the Energy War Room: Square-pipeline logo to be dumped like a bad first date

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 19, 2019

Rebranded ‘War Room’ aims for ‘measured tone’ in riposte to acerbic Medicine Hat News column, doesn’t quite succeed

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 18, 2019

No more pipelines? Another day, another UCP talking point exposed as codswallop

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