West of Centre
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Episodes: 150
May 15, 2025
Description
Kathleen Petty sits down with politicians, pundits, and other thoughtful westerners for conversations about the priorities, preoccupations and politics of Albertans and others who are West of Centre.
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Is 'pragmatism' good climate policy?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Licence to divide
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Short: Party politics hits city hall
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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No pipeline, no problem... For now
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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West of Centre goes on summer break
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Buckle up, Alberta! 2025 ain't over yet
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Short: Deal or no deal in Trump's new world order
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Less fire and more finesse
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Short: The problem with GDP per capita
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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What these Alberta Next town halls are trying to sell
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Short: Indigenous chief warns of fallout over carbon capture project
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Pancakes, pipeline and Poilievre
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Short: The prolonged calm before the next oil price swing
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Aspiration meets reality for Mark Carney
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Short: The case for bolstering defence capability in the North
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Alberta Next or Alberta Nexit?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Short: Separatists fail first test, but slow march to referendum continues
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Bonus: In search of separatists in Alberta
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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What's next for Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Short: Alberta faces wave of looming strikes
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Making sense of Alberta's economic puzzle
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Short: Why Alberta's renewable energy sector isn't rushing to build more solar and wind
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Pipeline politics return with familiar gridlock
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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New Parliament, new tone, new promises
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May 30, 2025 |
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Short: Albertans like a fighter. Right now, that's Danielle Smith
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May 28, 2025 |
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A different former Bay Street executive makes his pitch to the West
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May 23, 2025 |
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Short: Measles, mistrust and mixed messages
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May 20, 2025 |
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New cabinet, old grievances signal rough road ahead for Carney
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May 16, 2025 |
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Short: NDP rebuild could hinge on strength in the West
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May 14, 2025 |
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Danielle Smith walks a fine line between staying and splitting
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May 09, 2025 |
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Short: The Alberta separation question
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May 05, 2025 |
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Carney’s win sparks hope in some, wariness in others
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May 02, 2025 |
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Short: The 'big shift' meets the 'breaking point'
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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After Dark: The election night postmortem
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The fault lines of this federal election
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Short: How Canada’s ‘lost decade’ was decades in the making
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Live from Medicine Hat, the sunniest city in Canada
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Short: Debate club for grownups — how parties prepare their leaders for prime time
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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It's too early to call Mark Carney a 'Teflon' candidate
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Short: How the 'Calgary School' reimagined prairie politics to reshape Canadian conservatism
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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The new normal is not normal, but are Albertans ready to separate?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Coming soon: West of Centre live in Medicine Hat — how ‘Gas City’ is shaping Alberta’s future
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Voting on anxiety
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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A moment in time
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Short: Manifest destiny
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Not a rational opponent
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Way too much news
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Short: Dangled like a yo-yo
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Short: Build, build, build
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Deficit by choice
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Dump everything
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Diagnosing a controversy
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Short: Gen Z swipes right
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Boos and booze
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Short: If, if, if...
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Their sticks are so much bigger than ours
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Castaway island
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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We're in a lot of trouble here
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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A hot mess
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The "great state" of Canada
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Photo finished
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Trump says jump
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Nate Horner's busy week
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Ready,AIMCo,fired
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Alberta's Trump strategy
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Slalom skiing with Danielle Smith
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Scrapping about the cap
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Ballot battles
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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All about that base
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Alberta's cities: sitting at the kid's table
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Alberta called, too many answered
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Ms. Smith goes to everywhere
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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'Alberta politics has no chill'
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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‘Blast radius’ in B.C. politics
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Parsing Poilievre
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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'Not enough Pilsner in Saskatchewan...'
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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"Pothole politics"
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May 31, 2024 |
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Number nerds unite!
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May 24, 2024 |
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The long and winding road to net zero
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May 17, 2024 |
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Chaos theory
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May 10, 2024 |
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I'm from Ottawa and I'm here to help
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May 03, 2024 |
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Who's the boss?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Beyond NDP bake sales
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Alberta's "stay-out-of-my-backyard bill "
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Recovery rhetoric
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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The frontrunner vs the Teflon premier
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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By unpopular demand
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The orange half dozen
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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"Tin pot dictatorship"?
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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"Champagne tastes on a beer budget"
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Promises made, promises delayed
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Rebranding (and regretting) the carbon tax
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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'This is Calgary' podcast
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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NDP race: purity vs pragmatism
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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The politics of depoliticizing
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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The company you keep?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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End of an era
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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New year, same problems
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The first annual quiz show
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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'Get off our oil patch'
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Does the Sovereignty Act have any clothes?
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The polling, politics and policy of climate change
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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What's a party without (trial) balloons?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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AHS: Altering Health Structures
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Political pen pals
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Fixing the federation
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Exit right or stay put
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Everything and nothing has changed
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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A pitch and a catch
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Freezing in the dark
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Pension tensions
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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A premiere with the premier
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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That's All Folks!
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Finding Zero
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Political Pondering
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Balancing Act
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Now what?
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Polling Ahead
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May 26, 2023 |
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Debating the Debate
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May 20, 2023 |
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Small towns with big city problems
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May 12, 2023 |
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Running on their records
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May 05, 2023 |
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Game On !
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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All the writ moves
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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The battle for Calgary
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Rethinking revenue
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Live special: What do voters want out of Alberta's election?
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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“The big F”
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Three’s a crowd
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Polls, polls, polls
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Show me the money
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Building a budget
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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When it rains, it pours
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Diagnosing health care
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Premature speculation
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Prosecution pressures
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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TGIF
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Path to premier, take two
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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What just happened?
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Outside looking in
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Motion Sickness: Riding a new constitutional roller coaster in western Canada
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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"Show me the Money"
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Alberta Health Services goes boom
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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"Show me the hammer"
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Perilous polling
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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A writ by any other name
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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“Boring is the new orange”
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Prairie pushback
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Welcome to Danielle’s world
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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The final lap
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Sep 30, 2022 |