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Saskatchewan will hold an election on April 4. Premier Brad Wall and his conservative Saskatchewan Party are looking to voters for their third consecutive mandate. Will he get it? After all, the political landscape has significantly changed since the last provincial election in 2011.

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Just remember that the Conservative advantage in Alberta is so overwhelming that the "left" could unite into one party and still lose all the seats in the Legislature to the parties of the right.

This is just part of the weirdness of living in Alberta, a province where polling demonstrates time and again that citizens support New Democratic Party policies yet consistently vote for parties that want to impose a regime of strict market fundamentalism.

It's only too easy for a Canadian visitor -- all right, a Toronto visitor -- to go gaga in Chicago. Everybody knows why: the waterfront that remains a vibrant part of the city instead of secreted away behind an impenetrable wall of identical condos; the exciting skyscrapers instead of Toronto's mediocre and banal ones; the commitment to preserve and repurpose splendid historic buildings.