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The question must be asked: Was Brad Wall’s party being paid to undermine Alberta’s NDP? PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, not looking quite. Database shows how schools, cities, charities, plus media and Alberta firms bankroll Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party. PHOTOS: Premier Brad Wall, whose Saskatchewan Party has been receiving donations from such. Clown costumes verboten today in Fort Mac schools but are Canadians safe when costumed mimes can walk our streets?
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Alberta PoliticsShhhhhh! Don’t tell anyone: As PM, Stephen Harper’s economic performance is a bust! - Alberta Politics
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Don’t tell anyone: As PM, Stephen Harper’s economic performance is a bust! PHOTOS: From the sublime to the ridiculous? Liberal Lester Pearson, the top postwar economic performer among Canadian prime ministers. Below: Stephen Harper, the bottom. Below him: Pierre Trudeau (second best) and Brian Mulroney (second worst). Below them: Unifor economists Jim Stanford and Jordan Brennan. One of the most effective ways to keep a population quiet and obedient is to deprive it of information. In the mainstream medi...
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Alberta PoliticsBetween a rock and a hard place in Calgary-Foothills, foundering PCs’ second-best hope is an NDP victory on Sept. 3 - Alberta Politics
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Between a rock and a hard place in Calgary-Foothills, foundering PCs’ second-best hope is an NDP victory on Sept. 3. Here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten us into! The Alberta Progressive Conservative Party finds itself between a rock and a hard place in the looming Calgary-Foothills by-election. On the other hand, if they. Run a candidate and the election goes badly, as seems likely to happen given public annoyance in the riding with Mr. Prentice’s petulant departure on the night of the May 5 elect...
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Alberta PoliticsThis just in: Prime minister calls early election … I mean, calls an election early … What could possibly go wrong? - Alberta Politics
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This just in: Prime minister calls early election I mean, calls an election early What could possibly go wrong? PHOTOS: The prime minister of Canada in a Navy hat. The new kind. Yeah! A macho Navy cap! Now where’s Tommy Flanagan, now that we need him again? The political strategy guy. Below: Former prime minister Joe Clark, former Alberta premier Jim Prentice and current Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. Let’s call an early election! What could possibly go wrong? Anyway, we’re not calling an early. OK, enou...
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Alberta PoliticsWhen propaganda becomes memory: Pierre Trudeau and the National Energy Program - Alberta Politics
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When propaganda becomes memory: Pierre Trudeau and the National Energy Program. PHOTOS: Pierre and Justin Trudeau back in the day, with possibly quite a few Liberal supporters in the background. Below:. And Defence Minister Jason Kenney. Pierre Trudeau and his National Energy Program laid waste to Alberta in the 1980s, and that would include plenty of people out here who nowadays vote NDP and plan to continue doing so. Jason Kenney was explaining this. Coming two days after the first televised national l...
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Alberta PoliticsMedical transport is an essential service, and properly so – it’s time to start treating it like one - Alberta Politics
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Medical transport is an essential service, and properly so it’s time to start treating it like one. PHOTOS: Medical air transport an essential service too important to be left to private insurers and their ilk. Below: Amy and Amelia Savill (CTV News) and Alberta Health spokesperson Timothy Wilson (Linkedin). So now we need to buy medical-travel insurance when we travel. Not most of the rest of us either, I’d wager. From strangers to pay for a $30,000-plus air ambulance ride to get to a hospital that coul...
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Alberta PoliticsIs it good news or bad news for the Conservatives if Stephen Harper trumps Trump tonight? - Alberta Politics
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Is it good news or bad news for the Conservatives if Stephen Harper trumps Trump tonight? PHOTOS: Stephen Harper, as imagined during tonight’s TV debate. (Photo of Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore.) Below: The real Mr. Harper and another shot of the real Mr. Trump. Now, about that debate. Tonight, the big question has to be whether it will help the Conservatives or hurt them when Canadian voters tune into the concurrent Republican presidential candidates’ debate. This would suggest that a leader who finds h...
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Alberta PoliticsStephen Harper’s proposed ban on terror travel: subversive, unconstitutional, and unlikely to work, but clever - Alberta Politics
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Stephen Harper’s proposed ban on terror travel: subversive, unconstitutional, and unlikely to work, but clever. PHOTOS: Nineteenth Century Mormon men, criminalized by U.S. polygamy laws. Below: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Senator Mike Duffy, former MP Dean Del Mastro. The Conservative Party’s terror-travel ban proposal. Is vintage Stephen Harper subversive, unconstitutional and likely to have unintended consequences, but clever and highly motivating to the conservative base. This is clever because it ...
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Alberta PoliticsThat Conservative foreign policy election plank: shaky, incoherent and quite possibly dangerous - Alberta Politics
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That Conservative foreign policy election plank: shaky, incoherent and quite possibly dangerous. Prime Minister Stephen Harper likes to portray himself as a leader who stands by his foreign friends through thick and thin. But can they really depend on him? Like the economy, Mr. Harper has made foreign policy a key plank in his Conservative Party’s reelection strategy. And that stalwart support for certain groups and countries is a showpiece part of the prime minister’s vote-winning effort. While visiting...
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Alberta PoliticsNo losers except Canadians in last night’s ditchwater-dull debate - Alberta Politics
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No losers except Canadians in last night’s ditchwater-dull debate. PHOTOS: Zzzzzzzzz Why are these men smiling? Below: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, sneering; Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair, smiling unnervingly; Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, doing his best to look pugnacious; Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, happy to be there. And at the end of the night, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was still standing, even sneering a little, which by the weird dynamic of a televised debate seemingly designed to h...
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