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David J. Climenhaga is an award-winning journalist, author, post-secondary teacher, poet and trade union communicator who has worked in senior writing and editing positions at the Toronto Globe and Mail and Calgary Herald. He holds a Masters Degree in Journalism from the Carleton University School of Journalism in Ottawa. His 1995 book, A Poke in the Public Eye, explores the relationships among Canadian journalists, public relations people and politicians. The opinions expressed in his blog and other journalistic and literary writing represent his own views and not those of any employer, organization, society, institution or organized religion with which he may be affiliated. Source
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Search ArticlesEven with no realistic scenario, ‘independent advisory panel’ couldn’t make Alberta separation look good
At the end of their exertions, even the reliable team of neoliberal apparatchiks assembled by Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite economist last June couldn’t come up with a “scenario” in which Alberta separation could be made to look like a good idea. “Independent Advisory Panel” chair Jack Mintz once wrote Alberta that Alberta has more reason to ‘Albexit’ than Britain had to ‘Brexit’ (Photo: Source unidentified, via Macdonald Laurier Institute).
Modest success of the Progressive Tory Party candidate in Calgary-Shaw may be bad omen for UCP
Craig Chandler, campaign manager for the UCP’s candidate in the Calgary-Shaw by-election, does some last-minute sign planting on Monday (Photo: X/Peter Guthrie). On the day of the Calgary-Shaw by-election, a photo began to appear on social media of United Conservative Party candidate Mike Derry’s campaign manager, Craig Chandler, planting signs begging Conservatives not to split their vote in the riding. Progressive Tory Party candidate Kyle Joseph (Photo: Mount Royal University).
NDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest
Alberta NDP Calgary-Shaw candidate Kyle Campbell and party Leader Naheed Nenshi celebrate their by-election victory last night (Photo: Facebook/Alberta NDP). Alberta NDP candidate Kyle Campbell won the Calgary-Shaw by-election last night, beating the United Conservative Party’s Mike Derry in a contest that looked too close for comfort most of the evening as vote numbers trickled onto Elections Alberta’s website. UCP Calgary-Shaw candidate Mike Derry (Photo: Facebook/Mike Derry).
Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they?
Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw. Voters in that riding in the city’s far south will have an opportunity not just to spank the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle Smith for its devotion to private health care, open-pit coal mining, AI data centres and questionable ethics, but to send a message to Donald Trump in Washington and his MAGAfied Alberta separatist allies about their efforts to break up Canada.
Despite UCP scheme to fuel AI data centres, there’s nothing wrong with Crown corporations
Admittedly, the revelation by The Narwhal yesterday that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is seriously pondering a scheme to create public corporations to build and operate pipelines to carry natural gas to a multitude of AI data centres across the province, and to force private companies to invest in the project, comes as a shocker. Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean, from whose department the cabinet document reported by The Narwhal yesterday was leaked (Photo: David J.
The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List
There’s a substantial and growing body of economic research that separation would be a catastrophe for Alberta and Albertans, especially working people. Economist Jim Stanford warns that the economic reality of an independent Alberta would be a dark one (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). As economist Jim Stanford observed in his Aug.
Blame Ottawa? Most of Alberta’s economic discontent has roots in policies cooked up right here at home
Conventional wisdom in Canadian political and media circles seems to be that Albertans are almost to a man and woman deeply discontented with their relationship with the rest of Canada. Prominent Canadian economist Jim Stanford (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Yet recent polling about the divisive and deceptively worded separation referendum foisted on Albertans by their province’s now separatist dominated United Conservative Party Government strongly suggests this is not the real story.
Separatist ‘transition plan’ is propaganda intended to create a sense of reassurance and inevitability
On Thursday, a mostly anonymous group of some 47 individuals identifying themselves as “the Alberta Transition Council” dropped a document they called “The Alberta Transition Plan, a Practical Analysis of Alberta’s Transition from Province to an Independent Country.” St. Albert lawyer and Let Alberta Decide leader Keith Wilson (Photo: Wilson Law Office).
UCP slaps ‘punitive tax’ on solar panels, opening new front in its War on Renewable Energy
Solar panels – an increasingly common sight in Alberta, one that the United Conservative Party would like to make a lot less common (Photo: ArkRenewable.ca). Never let it be said that the Alberta’s United Conservative Party government isn’t in favour of recycling stuff – at least as long as that can be used to create higher costs and more red tape to help strangle the development of renewable energy.
Danielle Smith’s official message kept changing yesterday – what the heck was that about?
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith poses with U.S. President Donald Trump and would-be Alberta AI data centre developer Kevin O'Leary at Mar-a-Lago in January 2025 (Photo: X/Danielle Smith). Alberta Premier Danielle Smith marked the “Alberta Day” moment in time with a couple of significantly different official messages and an apocalyptic prophecy. CHED Radio host Courtney Theriault (Photo” X/Courtney Theriault).