Some would call it classic American-style attack politics, but, really, it just wasn’t that sophisticated.
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Congress’s just-in-time agreement ignores the country’s long-term problems
SEEN from afar, the behaviour of America’s government over the past month or so has been decidedly odd. Finance ministers visiting the IMF and the World Bank on October 11th, some of them from countries America has helped rescue in the past, seemed bemused by what was going on in Washington. China’s government, which holds the idea that countries ought not to intervene in each others’ affairs to be self-evident, criticised America repeatedly for failing to raise the debt ceiling, the legal limit on government borrowing, in a timely manner.
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Early flood response gets high marks in poll, but later policies not so popular
The Redford government drew high marks from the public for its initial response to June’s massive flooding, but some policies unveiled in the aftermath of the worst disaster in Alberta history — such as buying out homes in floodways — are proving unpopular, according to a new poll.
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Tories, Wildrose in dead heat
The Tories and Wildrose are running neck-and-neck in the first major poll since flood waters rampaged through southern Alberta this summer.
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Success of Alberta’s liquor store privatization a lesson for other provinces
CALGARY, AB, Sep 9, 2013/ Troy Media/ – Twenty years ago the Alberta government swiftly and boldly threw open Alberta’s markets in beer, wine and spirits. The result has been a success story of intense competition, added convenience and thousands of new jobs.
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Staples: Calgary’s civic politics movement should be watched
EDMONTON – When a new political movement gets big money and a big push from Calgary, Edmontonians need to take note. Those movements have a habit of profoundly influencing political affairs.
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Cabinet shuffle ‘not good news’ for Edmonton: political scientist
EDMONTON – Edmonton received “the short end of the stick” in Monday’s cabinet shuffle, a MacEwan University political scientist says.
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Braid: Tories find sense of purpose in response to floods
“I’m a little bit scared,” Premier Alison Redford said in an interview Sunday, shortly after her flood rebuilding program was rolled out.
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Canadians not all that active politically, study finds
OTTAWA—Politicians, partisans and political junkies may have to confront a harsh truth — Canadians just aren’t that into you.
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Braid: Revitalized Redford emerges in disaster’s wake
Politics in Alberta stand suspended, or, as one Wildroser puts it more practically, “there’s no value in partisanship — for the moment.”
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