If Alberta is indeed a nest of Nazi ideology, then why do so many people, from so many places, desire to come here?

The simple answer is Alberta might be many things, but it is far from being the home for a collection of modern-day Hitlers, Himmlers and Goebbels. Instead, it remains the most buoyant and dynamic province in Canada.

It’s been that way for decades, which is why people flock here from every part of the planet. Undoubtedly, this irritates certain folk, but all the pearl clutching can’t alter the fact this remains Canada’s promised land, warts and all.

So it was disappointing, to say the least, to see a fellow Albertan — former NDP leader Rachel Notley — emerge from her political retirement to dredge up analogies of Nazism with a nod to the current UCP government under the leadership of Premier Danielle Smith.

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Perhaps this was born of frustration at witnessing the mess her successor, Naheed Nenshi, is making of his role as leader of the NDP. It must indeed be embarrassing for him to see Notley return to grab the........

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