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Five things you need to know about Alberta's latest Electoral Boundaries Commission

| January 12, 2017

You've got the postcard in the mail and maybe heard your political activist pals muttering about this redraw of the electoral boundary maps. You don't know what it is and you're not sure if you want to.

We're here to help. Here are five things you need to know about the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission.

What do they do?

Alberta is divided into 87 electoral districts, and each district elects an MLA. After every two elections, a commission is struck to spend about a year dividing our province into 87 pieces roughly equal in population.

Former PC leadership candidate Sandra Jansen, subjected by Tories to 'intimidation and harassment,' joins NDP caucus

David J. Climenhaga

| November 18, 2016

Ten days ago ago she was a credible candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party. This afternoon, Sandra Jansen became a member of the New Democratic Party Caucus in the provincial Legislature.

It remains to be seen how much this decision -- I would say, this "courageous decision" -- by the MLA for Calgary-North West will change the political calculus in Alberta. Jansen certainly must know she will suffer plenty of abuse from the conservative online rage machine's operatives for her decision to join what she described today as a moderate and pragmatic government.

NDP environmental policies: Who're ya gonna believe? Mark Carney or Rick Strankman?

David J. Climenhaga

| June 7, 2016

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Who're ya gonna believe, huh?

Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada whence he was wooed away to serve as governor of the Bank of England and chair of the international Financial Stability Board, or Rick Strankman, Wildrose MLA for Drumheller-Stettler?

Ten things to know about the 2016 Alberta budget

Nick Falvo

| May 4, 2016

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On April 14, the Alberta government tabled its 2016-17 budget: Alberta Jobs Plan. Here are 10 things to know about it:

1. A new carbon tax (known as a "carbon levy") was announced.

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Rachel Notley asks Justin Trudeau to show leadership

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Justin Trudeau is holding a three-day cabinet retreat in the mountain resort of Kananaskis, an hour west of Calgary. Alberta premier Rachel Notley made a presentation to Liberal ministers on Sunday, and held a private meeting with the Canadian prime minister as well.

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Rather than fearing the Leap Manifesto, let's bring on the debate

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That silly Leap Manifesto -- giving itself away right in the subtitle, which calls for "a Canada based on caring for the Earth and one another." No wonder it provoked fury and outrage.

As my colleague Thomas Walkom pointed out earlier this week, reports of the manifesto's scariness have been greatly exaggerated; its call for a transition from fossil fuels to green energy is solidly based in science and widely accepted.

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The Leap: Time for a reality check

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The federal NDP's 'Leap' of faith advocates and Alberta's right-wing opposition: Strange bedfellows?

David J. Climenhaga

| April 13, 2016

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With friends like the Leap Manifesto's advocates in the federal New Democratic Party, does the Notley government need enemies?

Seriously, it's fair to wonder if some Leap Manifesto supporters inside the NDP are really all that different in important ways from Alberta's frustrated, infuriated right-wing opposition.

Throne Speech suggests Alberta NDP won't let oil price crisis go completely to waste

David J. Climenhaga

| March 9, 2016

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By the sound of yesterday's Alberta Throne Speech, the Notley government has decided not to let a good crisis go completely to waste after all.

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NDP Premier Rachel Notley lives the bitumen bust

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The NDP promised to review royalties paid by Alberta natural gas and oil producers. Last Friday Premier Rachel Notley released the report and reacted to its findings.

It is well known that Alberta revenues from natural gas and oil have been a bargain for producers, and the four-member review panel pointed this out in its report.

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