David J. Climenhaga
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social
Author of the AlbertaPolitics.ca blog.
Asymmetrical political warfare comes to Alberta in the form of recall campaigns targeting UCP politicians. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/asym...
Asymmetrical political warfare comes to Alberta in the form of recall campaigns targeting UCP politicians - Alberta Politics
Trying to challenge the United Conservative Party Government’s misuse of the Charter’s notorious Notwithstanding Clause may be a waste of time and money, but using the UCP’s ridiculous recall legislat...
albertapolitics.ca
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Asymmetrical political warfare comes to Alberta in the form of recall campaigns targeting UCP politicians. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/asym...
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/brou... #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? - Alberta Politics
The brouhaha over the departure of Acadie-Annapolis MP Chris d’Entremont from the Opposition benches in the House of Commons to the government side has now descended into a he-said/they-said story. Mr...
albertapolitics.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/brou... #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/brou... #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? - Alberta Politics
The brouhaha over the departure of Acadie-Annapolis MP Chris d’Entremont from the Opposition benches in the House of Commons to the government side has now descended into a he-said/they-said story. Mr...
albertapolitics.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/brou... #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg
MP Matt Jeneroux: a harbinger of Conservative leadership crises? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/mp-m...
MP Matt Jeneroux: a harbinger of Conservative leadership crises? - Alberta Politics
If, as seems likely, Edmonton Riverbend MP Matt Jeneroux’s announcement he’s departing federal politics next spring is a harbinger of a leadership crisis within in the Conservative Party of Canada, th...
albertapolitics.ca
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
MP Matt Jeneroux: a harbinger of Conservative leadership crises? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/mp-m...
MP Matt Jeneroux: a harbinger of Conservative leadership crises? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/mp-m...
MP Matt Jeneroux: a harbinger of Conservative leadership crises? - Alberta Politics
If, as seems likely, Edmonton Riverside MP Matt Jeneroux’s announcement he’s departing federal politics next spring is a harbinger of a leadership crisis within in the Conservative Party of Canada, th...
albertapolitics.ca
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
MP Matt Jeneroux: a harbinger of Conservative leadership crises? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/mp-m...
With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/with...
With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon - Alberta Politics
Last week and over the weekend, Licensed Practical Nurses, Health Care Aides and many other health care workers represented by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees at public facilities throughout...
albertapolitics.ca
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/with...
Reposted by David J. Climenhaga
If you're a journalism student or blogger, read as much as you can find of Bob's journalism. He possesses an extraordinary skill for making complex topics understandable and readable. Thorough reporting and crystal clear writing.
CP legend Bob Weber retired* in 2024 & I had the privilege of hosting his farewell talk, which you shd watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF57...
*Turns out Bob can’t quit journalism & thank the galaxy for that. Bob’s latest in @albertaviews.bsky.social #ableg #cdnpoli
albertaviews.ca/dirty-cleanu...
*Turns out Bob can’t quit journalism & thank the galaxy for that. Bob’s latest in @albertaviews.bsky.social #ableg #cdnpoli
albertaviews.ca/dirty-cleanu...
Mature Asset Strategy - the Latest Dirty Cleanup Scheme - Alberta Views
The Mature Asset Strategy is a report on the thousands of wells and pipelines that dot Alberta years after the oil and profits are gone.
albertaviews.ca
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you're a journalism student or blogger, read as much as you can find of Bob's journalism. He possesses an extraordinary skill for making complex topics understandable and readable. Thorough reporting and crystal clear writing.
With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/with...
With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon - Alberta Politics
Last week and over the weekend, Licensed Practical Nurses, Health Care Aides and many other health care workers represented by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees at public facilities throughout...
albertapolitics.ca
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/with...
Sounds as if the UCP will soon pull the plug on its recall election, now that government MLAs are on the receiving end. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/soun... #ableg #abpoli
Sounds as if the UCP will soon pull the plug on its recall election, now that government MLAs are on the receiving end - Alberta Politics
It sure sounds as if Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party will soon rip a page from the Book of Depression era Social Credit premier William Aberhart and repeal the province’s recall legislation...
albertapolitics.ca
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Sounds as if the UCP will soon pull the plug on its recall election, now that government MLAs are on the receiving end. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/soun... #ableg #abpoli
Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet! Who thought Jason Kenney’s recall legislation would be a medium for public anger at the UCP? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...
Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet! - Alberta Politics
Sooner or later, Albertans are probably going to start to suffer from petition fatigue. But not just yet. Too many of us are having too much fun with the understanding that, sometimes, turn about rea...
albertapolitics.ca
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet! Who thought Jason Kenney’s recall legislation would be a medium for public anger at the UCP? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...
Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet! Who thought Jason Kenney’s recall legislation would be a medium for public anger at the UCP? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...
Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet! - Alberta Politics
Sooner or later, Albertans are probably going to start to suffer from petition fatigue. But not just yet. Too many of us are having too much fun with the understanding that, sometimes, turn about rea...
albertapolitics.ca
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue – but not just yet! Who thought Jason Kenney’s recall legislation would be a medium for public anger at the UCP? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...
Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dona... #ableg #abpoli #geopolitics #Venezuela
Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands - Alberta Politics
Now that Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite foreign autocrat appears to be on the brink of transforming himself from a successful “peace candidate” into a war president, it would behoove folks here in...
albertapolitics.ca
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dona... #ableg #abpoli #geopolitics #Venezuela
Forever Canadian campaign delivers petition forms signed by 456,365 citizens to Elections Alberta. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/fore...
Forever Canadian campaign delivers petition forms signed by 456,365 citizens to Elections Alberta - Alberta Politics
When Thomas Lukaszuk said he could bring Elections Alberta pro-Canada petition forms signed by 300,000 Albertans in the three months allowed by the United Conservative Party’s “citizen initiative” leg...
albertapolitics.ca
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Forever Canadian campaign delivers petition forms signed by 456,365 citizens to Elections Alberta. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/fore...
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/fund... #ableg #abpoli #TeachersStrike
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers - Alberta Politics
Overreach, anyone? Since the start of the legal strike by 51,000 Alberta public, francophone and Catholic schoolteachers on October 6, elements of the province’s United Conservative Party Government ...
albertapolitics.ca
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/fund... #ableg #abpoli #TeachersStrike
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/fund... #ableg #abpoli #TeachersStrike
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers - Alberta Politics
Overreach, anyone? Since the start of the legal strike by 51,000 Alberta public, francophone and Catholic schoolteachers on October 6, elements of the province’s United Conservative Party Government ...
albertapolitics.ca
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Fundamental rights? Forget about ’em! Danielle Smith brings down the hammer on Alberta’s striking teachers. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/fund... #ableg #abpoli #TeachersStrike
If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/if-s... #ableg #abpoli
If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation - Alberta Politics
If the Alberta Prosperity Project hoped to hold the largest public protest in Alberta history yesterday, as some organizers of the “independence rally” that took place in front of the Legislative Buil...
albertapolitics.ca
October 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/if-s... #ableg #abpoli
Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention. UPDATED with quotes from Ms. Azocar. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/sand... #abpol #ableg #AUPE
Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention - Alberta Politics
Sandra Azocar, who started working for the Alberta Government as a child protection worker in 1987, has been elected president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. The 59-year-old Chilean-bor...
albertapolitics.ca
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention. UPDATED with quotes from Ms. Azocar. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/sand... #abpol #ableg #AUPE
If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/if-s... #ableg #abpoli
If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation - Alberta Politics
If the Alberta Prosperity Project hoped to hold the largest public protest in Alberta history yesterday, as some organizers of the “independence rally” that took place in front of the Legislative Buil...
albertapolitics.ca
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
If size really matters, defending public education definitely gets out a bigger crowd than Alberta separation. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/if-s... #ableg #abpoli
Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/sand... #abpol #ableg #AUPE
Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention - Alberta Politics
Sandra Azocar, who started working for the Alberta Government as a child protection worker in 1987, has been elected president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. The Chilean-born union acti...
albertapolitics.ca
October 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Sandra Azocar elected president of AUPE at largest Alberta union’s annual convention. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/sand... #abpol #ableg #AUPE
Reposted by David J. Climenhaga
Mark Carney could remove the emissions cap, the tanker ban, and anything else Danielle Smith demands. Her proposed pipeline still wouldn't get built because the business case for actually filling it gets worse with each passing day.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
#cdnpoli #abpoli
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Danielle Smith’s pipeline still doesn’t have a business case
The biggest obstacle standing in the way of another pipeline to the West Coast isn't the tanker ban or federal climate policies. It's oil prices and the nature of the businesses that rely on them for ...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Mark Carney could remove the emissions cap, the tanker ban, and anything else Danielle Smith demands. Her proposed pipeline still wouldn't get built because the business case for actually filling it gets worse with each passing day.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
Reposted by David J. Climenhaga
Alberta teachers saw their real salaries cut by 13.2% since the last contract started in Sept 2020--the worst in Canada. The Alberta government wants to lock in that pay cut by ordering teachers back to work. The teachers' position is 100% morally & economically valid. #canlab
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Alberta teachers saw their real salaries cut by 13.2% since the last contract started in Sept 2020--the worst in Canada. The Alberta government wants to lock in that pay cut by ordering teachers back to work. The teachers' position is 100% morally & economically valid. #canlab
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/gran... Outside, 30,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers rang cowbells & blew trumpets to protest the UCP’s bargaining strategy.
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction - Alberta Politics
Having already solved the problem of trade and tariffs with the United States simply by being nice to the Trump Administration, Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to “end the landlockin...
albertapolitics.ca
October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/gran... Outside, 30,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers rang cowbells & blew trumpets to protest the UCP’s bargaining strategy.
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/gran... Outside, 30,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers rang cowbells & blew trumpets to protest the UCP’s bargaining strategy.
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction - Alberta Politics
Having already solved the problem of trade and tariffs with the United States simply by being nice to the Trump Administration, Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to “end the landlockin...
albertapolitics.ca
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/gran... Outside, 30,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers rang cowbells & blew trumpets to protest the UCP’s bargaining strategy.
Civic election hot take: UCP’s big-money, small-party scheme to elect friendlier city councils mostly flops. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/civi...
Civic election hot take: UCP’s big-money, small-party scheme to elect friendlier city councils mostly flops - Alberta Politics
Looks like the United Conservative Party’s scheme to encourage civic political parties and allow big corporate money to make it easier to elect ideologically simpatico mayors and councillors in Albert...
albertapolitics.ca
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Civic election hot take: UCP’s big-money, small-party scheme to elect friendlier city councils mostly flops. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/civi...
The key to understanding UCP’s legislative agenda is the UCP’s annual general meeting next month. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/the-... #ableg #abpoli
The key to understanding UCP’s legislative agenda is the UCP’s annual general meeting next month - Alberta Politics
The key to understanding the Alberta Legislature’s fall agenda is knowing that almost everything on the list trotted out yesterday by United Conservative Party House Leader Joseph Schow is there to ke...
albertapolitics.ca
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The key to understanding UCP’s legislative agenda is the UCP’s annual general meeting next month. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/the-... #ableg #abpoli