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My personal Substack. Click to read David’s Substack, by David Climenhaga, a Substack publication. Launched 7 months ago. [bridged from https://albertapolitics.substack.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/albertapolitics.substack.com ]

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Alberta NDP will not formally participate in Forever Canadian petition drive ‘We have no connection and are not collaborating,’ NDP Caucus press secretary says
06.08.2025 05:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beset by scandals, patriotic pushback, and new rivals, Alberta’s UCP wants us to be mad about … bicycle lanes! ‘Do your damn job,’ municipal affairs minister barks at city councillors, and that means no more climate emergency declarations or bike lanes
03.08.2025 05:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elections Alberta approves Thomas Lukaszuk’s ‘Alberta Forever Canada’ citizen initiative petition Former PC deputy premier wants referendum to ask: “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?”
31.07.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alberta premier and justice minister to chief electoral officer: Drop your plan to ask the courts about separation referendum question Gordon McClure to Danielle Smith and Mickey Amery: Drop dead!
30.07.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elections Canada finds an elegant and decisive solution to the Longest Ballot Committee’s shenanigans Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault has blown the group’s irritating tactic in the Battle River-Crowfoot by-election to smithereens
29.07.2025 06:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Answering a seven-year-old rhetorical question: Why Canada needs to outlaw freelance ‘diplomacy’ A group of Albertans would like to sell out our country for less than a mess of pottage – a loan, for crying out loud!
28.07.2025 06:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: Reduce ‘red tape’ and also have the highest environmental standards? Can’t be done! Alberta’s government wants us to believe impossible things, warns author Lorne Fitch, but while the words they use may be soothing, they’re dangerous
28.07.2025 05:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Looks like those MLAs who want to reboot the PC Party think they can use the Alberta Party to make it happen Did no one tell Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair about the Alberta Party Curse?
24.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Globe and Mail journalist was stalked and photographed by persons unknown for breaking stories about UCP Government Meanwhile, Jasper’s Mayor won’t apologize for consultant’s report on 2024 fire, so Premier Danielle Smith blames the media
22.07.2025 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Does a UCP path to victory in the next provincial election run through Edmonton City Hall? UCP municipal election legislation was obviously intended to make it easier to elect UCP-friendly councils
21.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The political demise of Donald Trump, which suddenly appears possible, would herald big changes for UCP Now that MAGA has realized their president is ‘a scam artist,’ Wild Rose MAGA will have to change course too
20.07.2025 19:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Danielle Smith, exhibiting remarkably thin skin, demands apology from Town of Jasper for consultant’s critical report on 2024 fire “This was a federal fire,” Alberta’s premier insisted, pointing fingers at the town, Parks Canada and Ottawa
20.07.2025 05:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interfering Alberta officials made things worse during last year’s catastrophic Jasper fire: report As was obvious at the time, the UCP was focused on what really mattered in an emergency: Making the Liberal Government in Ottawa look bad
18.07.2025 07:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last night’s Alberta Next town hall ‘couldn’t have been more contrived if it were a one-star Fringe show’ There’s no way Danielle Smith’s ‘Alberta Next’ roadshow can be described as a public consultation
17.07.2025 06:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘My husband’s an adviser to me, and that’s allowed because he’s married to me,’ Alberta Premier Danielle Smith insists ‘Danielle Smith is full of it,’ says former premier Rachel Notley’s husband, Lou Arab
15.07.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to the United Conservative Party Government! Alberta is No. 1 … for measles infections When it comes to spreading infection, Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta punches above its weight
15.07.2025 05:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will Anne of Green Gables soon be banned in Alberta schools? The true purpose of Alberta’s performative school book ban is to ensure continued political support for the UCP
13.07.2025 06:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Still reeling from ‘stolen’ Canada Disability Benefit, disabled Albertans hit by de facto rent hike Folk wisdom says we shouldn’t attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity – in this case, though, malice has the edge
12.07.2025 04:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If unicorn farts smelled like perfume, the Republic of Alberta would be the sweetest place on earth! The Alberta Prosperity Project’s creepy blueprint for a ‘free’ Alberta also includes an ugly fantasy of Trump-style mass deportations
08.07.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A plan to revive Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives has created plenty of buzz … but does it mean anything? Don’t bet the farm on the PCs 2.0 saving Alberta from either the UCP or the NDP, or both
06.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Independence Day! Brace yourselves for Conservative cowboy cop cosplay whether you like it or not! Forming an Alberta police force is a bad idea. Calling it the Rangers would be even worse, which means that’s probably what the UCP intends to do
04.07.2025 06:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Independent MLAs Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair announce plan to bring Alberta Progressive Conservatives back to life Ever since the UCP tilted into separatism, creation of a pro-Canadian Conservative party in Alberta was probably inevitable
03.07.2025 06:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PM expeditiously calls by-election to get Pierre Poilievre back into the House of Commons Liberals and Conservatives alike apparently believe the unseated Conservative leader is their greatest asset
01.07.2025 06:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Despite bad reviews for its sovereignty panel, UCP breezed into Canada Day with the wind in its sails Premier Danielle Smith will never admit the reasons publicly, but things are unfolding pretty much the way she wants
30.06.2025 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OK’d but not expected, website aims to boost support for federal NDP leadership bid by Edmonton Strathcona MP Heather McPherson MP didn’t float this particular balloon, but she’s thinking about it; meanwhile, a former riding MP with a colourful history wants to be Edmonton’s mayor
30.06.2025 05:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alberta Next surveys: Push polls with zero validity, consent baked in, and a mandatory propaganda video Even if respondents aren’t sucked in by the crude propaganda in the videos, they are given no opportunity to express their own views
26.06.2025 05:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Danielle Smith names ‘Alberta Next Panel’ members, recites litany of dubious grievances with Ottawa Despite transparent claims to the contrary, the obvious goal of panel is to push sovereignty-association, or outright separation
25.06.2025 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi wins convincingly in Edmonton-Strathcona NDP’s Gurtej Singh Brar posts victory in Edmonton-Ellerslie
24.06.2025 06:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is by-election day in three Alberta ridings Meanwhile, a visitor infected with measles appears to have visited 10 locations in the Edmonton area between June 4 and 6
23.06.2025 18:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As it was, is now, and ever shall be: Alberta Government communications return to the Premier’s Office Government communications should be judged by the extent to which they remain neutral and balanced
22.06.2025 04:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0