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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Jan 1, 2021
Defiant Kenney on minister’s Hawaiian hijinks: No rules were broken, so no consequences

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

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

10 mins
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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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
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