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What you should worry about when you worry about President Trump (Hint: not where Ivanka sits!)

| February 16, 2017

It's actually pretty hard to know who to root for in the emerging war between U.S. President Donald Trump and the mainstream media.

I mean, seriously people, I find Mr. Trump as scary as the next sane person -- although apparently not for the same reasons as the MSM, which seems to think he hates Russia with insufficient fervor.

Where's Pat Paulsen, now that America needs him? And why didn't Jason Kenney phone Brian Jean?

David J. Climenhaga

| October 12, 2016

Where’s Pat Paulsen, now that America needs him?

Or, to put this another way, seeing as Paulsen permanently departed this vale of political tears back in 1997, if he were running for president of the United States today, he'd probably have a fighting chance to get elected. Considering the competition!

For those of you too young to recall Paulsen's heyday, he was a deadpan comedian who frequently appeared on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Who? What? — Ed) and briefly had his own TV comedy program.

Trade deals of yesteryear sow seeds of impending Trexit

Mel Watkins

| August 11, 2016

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Reader Alert: Read immediately in case Trump disappears into the black hole of history.

Trexit. You read it first here on the good enough margin of empire. T is for Trump. Rhymes with Brexit. Occurring at the same time, with an ocean in between, there has to be something in common.

For Republicans and Democrats both, the patriotism of Muslims is always in question

Shenaz Kermalli

| August 3, 2016

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When the NDP abandoned its socialist principles, it abandoned its chance of winning

Mimi Williams

| October 23, 2015

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Many New Democrats were shocked and dismayed at the outcome of Monday's federal election, despite their relief that Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party government were gone at last. Long-time NDP activist and freelance Alberta journalist Mimi Williams explains in this Alberta Diary guest post why she believes the NDP's own campaign decisions were the principal reason for this unhappy turn of events. DJC

An ill wind blows no good for Alberta PCs: Caucus member arrested on U.S. prostitution rap

David J. Climenhaga

| July 17, 2013

The sordid arrest in St. Paul, Minn., of the Hon. Member for Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo puts the government of Premier Alison Redford in an excruciatingly difficult position.

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Warm and fuzzies: Canadian mythmaking on the 10th anniversary of a slaughter

This past week has provided Canadians with a series of warm and fuzzies that, like most of this nation's mythology, were built on self-congratulatory lies. From the breathless and ankle-deep CBC and CTV interviews with former prime minister Jean Chretien to the Globe and Mail's front-page shout out to that most disingenuous of foreign ministers, Bill Graham, the occasion was the 10th anniversary of the 2003 escalation of the 23-year war against the people of Iraq.

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Taking liberties: 22 years behind bars for a 'crime of compassion'

When former U.S. president George W. Bush descended on the Regional Economic Summit in suburban Vancouver last October, there was, understandably, no shortage of protesters, pleas for indictments and cries of "war criminal." Left out of most news coverage as well as activist communiqués, however, was any focus on another former U.S. president who was tagging along, someone equally deserving of such protest but who seems, remarkably, to get off fairly lightly these days: Bill Clinton.

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Too many non-union managers, not union members, drive up Alberta government costs

David J. Climenhaga

| November 6, 2011

Did you know that last year there was one manager for every 5.4 people employed directly by the Alberta government?

Think about that ratio the next time you're tempted to blame unions for the cost of providing public services in this province, as we have been conditioned to do by 40 years of neo-conservative brainwashing that assails unions and lauds the dubious benefits of "free markets."

Stephen Harper's Senate 'reform' scheme has nothing to do with democracy

David J. Climenhaga

| June 20, 2011

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's bill to "democratize" the Canadian Senate has very little to do with democracy. Rather the opposite, in fact.

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