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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 2, 2019
UCP math: 1.5 = 1 – and you’re lucky to get that!

UCP math: 1.5 = 1 – and you’re lucky to get that!

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One hour is the same as one and a half hours! Who knew? It’s always an education to listen to the way Jason Kenney and his UCP team explain things. Yesterday, the leader of Alberta’s
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 1, 2019
Former NDP leader Brian Mason said ready to bring Alberta-style politics to B.C.

Former NDP leader Brian Mason said ready to bring Alberta-style politics to B.C.

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Brian Mason, soon to be a resident of British Columbia, will seek a nomination as an NDP candidate in that province as soon as he can, AlbertaPolitics.ca is reporting. The former leader of the Alberta
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Mar 31, 2019
How to save a province by destroying it: Jason Kenney releases the Full Monty, political version

How to save a province by destroying it: Jason Kenney releases the Full Monty, political version

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About that 117-page “full platform” released by United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney on the billionaire Southern Family’s back stoop south of Calgary yesterday, the first thing it’ll do is raise the deficit. That’s right!
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Mar 30, 2019
Jeff Callaway bids to derail Kamikaze Campaign finance probe – why won’t he wait, like Trump?

Jeff Callaway bids to derail Kamikaze Campaign finance probe – why won’t he wait, like Trump?

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Despite obviously having been tempted to shut down the “Russian collusion” investigation when he saw friends and supporters charged with lying to the FBI, aides to U.S. President Donald Trump managed to persuade him to
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Mar 30, 2019
On Milton Acorn, on his birthday, Canada’s People’s Poet

On Milton Acorn, on his birthday, Canada’s People’s Poet

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Today was the birthday of Milton Acorn, the People’s Poet, who lived rough, and died before he was eligible for the Old Age Security, even under the old rules. For those of you who have
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Mar 29, 2019
The UCP health platform: mostly spin, some two-tier medicine, and scraps of red meat for the base

The UCP health platform: mostly spin, some two-tier medicine, and scraps of red meat for the base

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Jason Kenney’s health care policy announcement yesterday was a typical conservative political speech – a mish-mash of anodyne sentiment, misleading spin, market-fundamentalist nostrums, scraps of red meat for the base, cheap shots at the federal
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Mar 28, 2019
A Tale of Two Columns: What drives the conservative urge to wreck public health care?

A Tale of Two Columns: What drives the conservative urge to wreck public health care?

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One of the unusual features of the past four years in Alberta has been the remarkable calm that has prevailed in our normally tumultuous, shambolic, sometimes chaotic health care system. Under the NDP Government, for
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Mar 27, 2019
Yesterday marked a century of public sector trade unionism in Alberta

Yesterday marked a century of public sector trade unionism in Alberta

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There will be no update on the Alberta election campaign today; your blogger was at church last night. Let me explain: 100 years ago last night, a small gathering of people met in the basement
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Mar 26, 2019
NDP promises 13,000 $25-a-day child care spaces; UCP would remove protections for LGBTQ youth

NDP promises 13,000 $25-a-day child care spaces; UCP would remove protections for LGBTQ youth

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As she hinted at her Edmonton rally Sunday, Premier Rachel Notley announced yesterday in Calgary that if her NDP government is reelected it will move to help families with children by introducing 13,000 more $25-a-day child
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