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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 28, 2021
Kenney Government hastily cobbles together ‘working parents’ advisory panel’ to seek ways to undermine federal child care proposal

Kenney Government hastily cobbles together ‘working parents’ advisory panel’ to seek ways to undermine federal child care proposal

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On April 19, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the Trudeau Government plans to spend $30 billion on a national child care plan with a target of reducing parents’ costs to $10 a day per child
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 27, 2021
Kenney’s surrender to COVID: Has the Great Barrington Declaration become the Great Edmonton Declaration?

Kenney’s surrender to COVID: Has the Great Barrington Declaration become the Great Edmonton Declaration?

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Did the Great Barrington Declaration just transition into the Great Edmonton Declaration? Remember that thing? The now discredited notion – with the thinnest veneer of transitory scientific respectability – that everything would be OK if
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 26, 2021
Kinney versus Kenney: Can a progressive gadfly offer unhappy Albertans a way to send their premier a message?

Kinney versus Kenney: Can a progressive gadfly offer unhappy Albertans a way to send their premier a message?

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Progressive gadfly Duncan Kinney, executive director of the progressive news and advocacy organization behind the Progress Report newsletter and podcast, is the first Albertan to file his papers with Elections Alberta to run in the
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 24, 2021
Small donors, potential election volunteers, flock to Alberta NDP as disillusionment with Jason Kenney grows

Small donors, potential election volunteers, flock to Alberta NDP as disillusionment with Jason Kenney grows

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Alberta’s New Democratic Party raised twice as much as the ruling United Conservative Party in the first quarter of 2021.  And we’re not just talking about chicken feed here, people.  The first-quarter report on political
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David Climenhaga
Bestsellers
Apr 24, 2021
Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson’s first novel, published in 2000, tops independent bookshops’ Alberta fiction bestseller list

Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson’s first novel, published in 2000, tops independent bookshops’ Alberta fiction bestseller list

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 18, 2021. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 23, 2021
Bill to hinder COVID-negligence suits against long-term-care firms will also protect Kenney Government from scrutiny

Bill to hinder COVID-negligence suits against long-term-care firms will also protect Kenney Government from scrutiny

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The Kenney Government would like you to think the bill it introduced yesterday to make it hard to sue long-term-care companies for negligence causing the death from COVID-19 of anyone in their care “strikes a
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 22, 2021
Legislature passes transitory vaccine leave legislation, a worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Alberta style!

Legislature passes transitory vaccine leave legislation, a worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Alberta style!

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Never let it be said the United Conservative Party has done nothing worthwhile during the two years it’s been in power in Alberta. Late yesterday the Alberta Legislature passed a bill amending the Employment Standards
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Apr 21, 2021
$10-a-day child care in Alberta? Forget about it! Federal plan prompts Kenney to call up conservatism’s culture warriors

$10-a-day child care in Alberta? Forget about it! Federal plan prompts Kenney to call up conservatism’s culture warriors

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If cornered, will the Kenney Government flat out say no to federal funds for child care?  It sure looks like it.  But first, as is ever the case when the United Conservative Party’s lizard brain
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David Climenhaga
Canadian Politics
Apr 20, 2021
There are better ways for Alberta’s only New Democrat to spend her time than calling for more Canadian troops on Russia’s doorstep

There are better ways for Alberta’s only New Democrat to spend her time than calling for more Canadian troops on Russia’s doorstep

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Last week, Heather McPherson, New Democrat Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, was sounding as belligerent as any Alberta Conservative on the topic of what she termed “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.” In a lead-up to
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