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David Climenhaga's Alberta Politics Blog

Posted inAlberta Politics

The last thing Alberta New Democrats need is a dumb fight over their name, which is just fine as it is

by David ClimenhagaNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

The NDP is the only Alberta party that now offers government by grownups. That’s the brand. Leave it alone!

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#Kudatah? Not quite – even Danielle Smith admits this Sovereignty Act stuff is mostly performative fluff

by David ClimenhagaNovember 28, 2023November 28, 2023

To say the introduction of the first Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act resolution in the Alberta Legislature yesterday is performative is the understatement of the year, and the year is almost over.

Posted inAlberta Politics

Danielle Smith to implement Alberta Sovereignty Act, legislation Jason Kenney called ‘full-frontal attack on the rule of law’

by David ClimenhagaNovember 26, 2023November 26, 2023

Something for Alberta’s UCP leaders to think about: History doesn’t offer many examples of nation states that just cheerfully allow themselves to be dissected.

Posted inAlberta Politics

About those very expensive bottles of children’s ‘Tylenot’ – where’s the CTF when you need it? 

by David ClimenhagaNovember 23, 2023

You’d think, wouldn’t you, that Canada’s self-described “non-partisan tax watchdog” would be all over the UCP’s purchase of unwanted children’s medication that no one wanted like white on rice?

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Manning to Alberta Conservative MPs (and 1 Liberal): Supposedly non-partisan pandemic report ‘could be used by the CPC’

by David ClimenhagaNovember 21, 2023November 21, 2023

What did Premier Danielle Smith make of this revelation the report is nothing more than a publicly funded partisan document? Preston Manning “used his personal email to do it,” she responded. OK then!

Posted inGeopolitics

H * l y S h * t! Who could possibly have known why China picked on those Two Michaels back in 2020?

by David ClimenhagaNovember 19, 2023November 19, 2023

Whatever Michaels Spavor and Kovrig were actually up to, there’s egg all over the faces of the Canadian political, media and intelligence establishments tonight.

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Danielle Smith delivers more promised chaos in health care with purge of six senior AHS executives

by David ClimenhagaNovember 17, 2023November 17, 2023

The purge of senior Alberta Health Services officials by the United Conservative Party that began yesterday is likely to paralyze decision making throughout the provincial health care system.

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Preston Manning’s pandemic panel report wants more politicians, fewer docs calling public health shots

by David ClimenhagaNovember 16, 2023November 16, 2023

Preston Manning, 81, has dropped his doorstopper recommending we quit just listening to scientists and physicians in the event of another pandemic and give equal time to “alternative scientific narratives.”

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Red Deer Catholic school trustee who compared pride flags to swastika banners is out – but that’s unlikely to be the end of the story

by David ClimenhagaNovember 15, 2023November 15, 2023

There are influential people in Alberta who share the former school trustee’s views and have a militant commitment to advancing them, and who will see an opportunity to engage in culture warfare.

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Premiers can agree not to poach health care workers from one another, but that’s easier said than done

by David ClimenhagaNovember 13, 2023November 13, 2023

No amicable premiers’ no-poaching agreement can keep health care professionals from talking to one another! Plus, how Alberta’s the place where bad ideas go to live forever.

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Danielle Smith and Tucker Carlson: Four reasons the Alberta premier will join the far-right American bloviator on stage

by David ClimenhagaNovember 10, 2023November 10, 2023

Here’s why Danielle Smith is going to go ahead and appear on stage with Tucker Carlson: She agrees with him. She’s a fan. It solves a political problem. She thinks she can get away with it.

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Danielle Smith summons Ed Stelmach, Lyle Oberg from the Alberta political crypt to help sell the breakup of AHS

by David ClimenhagaNovember 9, 2023November 9, 2023

The early release of the briefing notes by the NDP seems to have forced the government to move up its press conference by a day to try to recover lost ground.

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