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Defiant Kenney on minister’s Hawaiian hijinks: No rules were broken, so no consequences

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Aloha, Alberta! Jason Kenney doesn’t give a hoot* what you think. That’s the key takeaway from the premier’s defiant news conference early this afternoon about the cabinet minister who jetted off for a Hawaiian vacation

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 1, 2021

Political New Year’s fireworks go off as Alberta learns Tracy Allard, minister responsible for vaccine rollout, is just back from Hawaiian vacation

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Happy New Year, Alberta! And welcome to the first United Conservative Party Government scandal of 2021: Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard has been caught vacationing in Hawaii, mid-pandemic. Even before the New Year’s fireworks started

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 30, 2020

Social media abuzz with reports of UCP staffers, MLA vacationing abroad despite pandemic travel warnings

6 mins

Social media is abuzz with reports of United Conservative Party staffers and at least one UCP MLA enjoying vacations abroad notwithstanding the federal government’s pleas for Canadians to cancel all travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 29, 2020

More than 1,000 Albertans have died from COVID-19, half of them in the past month

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Albertans learned yesterday the grim toll from COVID-19 in the province has now passed 1,000 deaths. This is a terrible tragedy but it need surprise no one, given humanity’s extensive knowledge of the science of

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 27, 2020

AlbertaPolitics.ca marks its 13th anniversary today as 2020, annus horribilis, nears its end

6 mins

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the first post published on this blog, known at the time as St. Albert Diary, and later, for a spell, as Alberta Diary. So, by the standards of the

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 25, 2020

A Christmas contemplation of Cows, COVID, and shots — on goal and at cattle

6 mins

Merry Christmas! Normally in the wee hours of Christmas morning, your blogger would have been trudging home from midnight mass, his mild annual winter rebellion against a Protestant upbringing. So let’s talk about agriculture and

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 24, 2020

A thought on what the UCP’s elected members should find in their Christmas stockings tomorrow morning

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It’s Christmas Eve. What should Santa Claus leave tonight for a government that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing? The aphorism is Oscar Wilde’s, but the great wit of the 19th

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 23, 2020

When it comes to COVID-19, our premier talks like Churchill but walks like Chamberlain

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Alberta’s efforts to respond to the coronavirus pandemic with Jason Kenney in the driver’s seat are a lot like stand–up comedian Billy Connolly’s iconic routine about union negotiations, only without the profanity and without actually

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 22, 2020

Calgary judge makes short work of bid for injunction to block COVID-19 restrictions

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A Calgary superior court judge yesterday made short work of the bid by the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to get an emergency injunction blocking public health restrictions on activities likely to exacerbate the

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 1, 2021

Defiant Kenney on minister’s Hawaiian hijinks: No rules were broken, so no consequences

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 1, 2021

Political New Year’s fireworks go off as Alberta learns Tracy Allard, minister responsible for vaccine rollout, is just back from Hawaiian vacation

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 30, 2020

Social media abuzz with reports of UCP staffers, MLA vacationing abroad despite pandemic travel warnings

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 29, 2020

More than 1,000 Albertans have died from COVID-19, half of them in the past month

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 27, 2020

AlbertaPolitics.ca marks its 13th anniversary today as 2020, annus horribilis, nears its end

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 25, 2020

A Christmas contemplation of Cows, COVID, and shots — on goal and at cattle

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 24, 2020

A thought on what the UCP’s elected members should find in their Christmas stockings tomorrow morning

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 23, 2020

When it comes to COVID-19, our premier talks like Churchill but walks like Chamberlain

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 22, 2020

Calgary judge makes short work of bid for injunction to block COVID-19 restrictions

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