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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
May 29, 2019
Why wouldn’t Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer appoint an independent prosecutor in the Kamikaze Campaign case?

Why wouldn’t Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer appoint an independent prosecutor in the Kamikaze Campaign case?

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So riddle me this: Why wouldn’t Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer appoint an independent Crown prosecutor to oversee the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into allegations of voting fraud in the 2017 United Conservative Party leadership
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
May 28, 2019
United Conservative Party introduces the Open for Fast Food Act – sorry about the 13% pay cut, kids

United Conservative Party introduces the Open for Fast Food Act – sorry about the 13% pay cut, kids

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Premier Jason Kenney’s newly elected United Conservative Party introduced its second bill yesterday, calling it the Open for Business Act. The NDP immediately dubbed Bill 2 the Pick Your Pockets Bill, seeing as its provisions
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
May 27, 2019
B.C. Appeal Court’s Trans Mountain ruling may not be quite the slam-dunk Alberta thinks it is

B.C. Appeal Court’s Trans Mountain ruling may not be quite the slam-dunk Alberta thinks it is

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The unanimous ruling Friday by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that the B.C. Government does not have the constitutional authority to control what goes inside the federally regulated Trans Mountain Pipeline is being hailed
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David Climenhaga
Canadian Politics
May 26, 2019
Quebec premier vows drive to slash oil use; Alberta premier calls climate worry ‘flavour of the month’

Quebec premier vows drive to slash oil use; Alberta premier calls climate worry ‘flavour of the month’

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Over the weekend, Quebec Premier François Legault vowed to implement an ambitious electrification drive that would reduce the province’s use of oil by 40 per cent by 2030, which in case you’re not counting happens
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David Climenhaga
Canadian Politics
May 25, 2019
What should we make of the post-election Edmonton Journal editorial urging the UCP to keep the carbon tax?

What should we make of the post-election Edmonton Journal editorial urging the UCP to keep the carbon tax?

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I suppose we should never attribute to mischief what can be explained by incompetence, but what else are we to make of the Edmonton Journal’s earnest editorial yesterday urging Alberta Premier Jason Kenney not to
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David Climenhaga
Bestsellers
May 25, 2019
Rescue in the Rockies by Edmonton’s Rita Feutl tops Audreys Books’ fiction bestseller list

Rescue in the Rockies by Edmonton’s Rita Feutl tops Audreys Books’ fiction bestseller list

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended May 19, 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
May 24, 2019
Jason Kenney fiddles (with climate policy) while Alberta burns

Jason Kenney fiddles (with climate policy) while Alberta burns

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It is an irony, though not a particularly satisfying one to observe, that while Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government moves swiftly to repeal Alberta’s carbon tax, the province is aflame, with more than
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
May 23, 2019
Crib notes: Understanding yesterday’s United Conservative Party Throne Speech

Crib notes: Understanding yesterday’s United Conservative Party Throne Speech

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As the documents that lay out the government’s policy agenda for the next couple of years, Throne Speeches are by nature tendentious. In the service of making what is a curse to many citizens appear
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
May 22, 2019
Nathan Cooper chosen as Legislative Speaker – so how about those early mornings?

Nathan Cooper chosen as Legislative Speaker – so how about those early mornings?

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Now that Nathan Cooper has been chosen as Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, I wonder if the business of the Assembly will be getting under way at a more civilized hour, say 10 a.m., suitable
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