Braid: A confused, exasperated city still can't make up its mind about the next mayor

In the electorate, there is little enthusiasm for anybody. Mass confusion reigns

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Braid: Upstart Calgary Party aims to boot the province out of city hall business

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Braid: Upstart Calgary Party aims to boot the province out of city hall business

'If (Danielle Smith) wants to run Calgary, she should resign her seat, move to Calgary and run for mayor,' says mayoral candidate Brian Thiessen

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Braid: Calgary voters face tightening mayoral race and peculiar puzzle of political parties

Polling numbers and campaign financial filings raise more questions than they answer

11.10.2025 2

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Braid: Big talk, bold promises from candidates who won't tackle the real problem — city hall itself

Calgary needs a mayor who will end the rule of city hall bureaucrats and run the city with social compassion but fierce focus on real problems

10.10.2025 3

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Braid: B.C. premier accuses Smith of bringing Trump to Canada via pipeline

08.10.2025 3

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Don Braid: B.C.'s Eby accuses Danielle Smith of bringing Trump politics to Canada via pipeline

The B.C. premier’s new attack on Danielle Smith's pipeline plans is purely partisan, and vicious

08.10.2025 8

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Braid: B.C. premier accuses Smith of bringing Trump to Canada via pipeline

David Eby’s new attack on Danielle Smith's pipeline plans is purely partisan, and vicious

08.10.2025 6

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Braid: Lavish private-school funding infuriates teachers, spooks government Simply put, the UCP is increasing private school support at a much faster rate than funding for public schools

07.10.2025 10

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Braid: Lavish private-school funding infuriates teachers, spooks government

Simply put, the UCP is increasing private school support at a much faster rate than funding for public schools

07.10.2025 3

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Braid: Student speaks out at Alberta Next session, gets referred for a spanking Bruce McAllister looked like a privileged government man speaking power to truth. And he raised a question: Is this how they think of students in the premier’s office?

02.10.2025 10

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Braid: The teachers' strike will be a monster that could affect a million families

01.10.2025 10

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Braid: Student speaks out at Alberta Next session, gets referred for a spanking

Bruce McAllister looked like a privileged government man speaking power to truth. And he raised a question: Is this how they think of students in the...

01.10.2025 3

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Braid: The teachers' strike will be a monster that could affect a million families

30.09.2025 10

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Don Braid: The Liberals seem clueless about the furious Prairie resistance to gun buybacks

Gun licences are federal, but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province is ‘working right now’ on setting up its own firearms licensing system

25.09.2025 10

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Braid: The Liberals face a furious Prairie battle over mandatory gun buybacks

Danielle Smith and Scott Moe know exactly what they’re doing and it boils down to this: they will not allow Ottawa to take guns from law-abiding...

25.09.2025 5

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Braid: Incumbent mayors are hard to beat but Gondek may end the trend

The fact remains that no mayor has been defeated after one term for almost a half-century

18.09.2025 7

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Braid: Coffee with a corpse? Stark tales from the street for mayoral candidates

In general, all the mayoral candidates have policies that look fine on paper. But this isn’t working because city hall never follows through with...

17.09.2025 5

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Don Braid: Quebec’s likeliest next premier backs Alberta separation. Canada needs to take him seriously

‘I want Quebec to self-determine democratically. And I hope Albertans would want the same thing for themselves,’ PQ leader St-Pierre Plamondon...

13.09.2025 10

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Braid: Quebec’s likeliest next premier backs Alberta separation. Canada had better take him seriously

St-Pierre Plamondon was in Alberta this week, speaking to the U of C's school of public policy — and meeting Alberta separatists

13.09.2025 8

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Braid: Carney talks nice but oil and gas still face uniquely hostile laws

13.09.2025 8

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Don Braid: Oil and gas industry still faces uniquely hostile laws despite Carney's nice talk

The federal ‘greenwashing‘ law could see oil and gas companies pay millions in fines for ‘misrepresenting’ their environmental activities or...

12.09.2025 10

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Braid: Carney talks nice but oil and gas still face uniquely hostile laws

Federal “greenwashing” law could see oil and gas company pay millions in fines

11.09.2025 5

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Don Braid: Trudeau's long gone but look who's virtue signalling now Former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was often blasted for his smarmy, progressive virtue-signalling.

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Braid: Trudeau's long gone but look who's virtue signalling now

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Braid: UCP government's cash clawback and AISH upheaval seem heartless

05.09.2025 3

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Braid: UCP government's cash clawback and AISH upheaval seem heartless

The government seems clueless about the psychological harm they’re inflicting on people who face challenges most of us never imagine

04.09.2025 3

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Braid: The UCP retreats on library book ban after making Alberta an international punchline Under mounting pressure, the UCP caved, but they had to blame somebody on the way out — and the school boards were right at hand

03.09.2025 10

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Braid: The UCP retreats on library book ban after making Alberta an international punchline

Under mounting pressure, the UCP caved, but they had to blame somebody on the way out — and the school boards were right at hand

03.09.2025 5

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Braid: Despite the wild and angry campaign, Alberta will settle down

13.08.2025 10

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Braid: Alberta's pro-Canada forces scoop separatists, set referendum question

31.07.2025 10

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Braid: Smith breaks open the public piggy bank to solve school shortage, blames Trudeau

The UCP will pump $8.6 billion over three years into the construction of new schools

31.07.2025 10

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Braid: Smith breaks open the public piggy bank to solve school shortage, blames Trudeau

31.07.2025 10

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Don Braid: Calgary police say crime is down. Maybe they should look out the window

A decade of enabling by ultra-progressive local politicians has created an intractable civic disaster

26.07.2025 4

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Braid: Police say crime is down, but social disorder and street crime run wild

It's likely that thousands of street crimes per year go unreported.

25.07.2025 10

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Braid: Ban on sex in school library books gets more explicit than the offending material

19.07.2025 10

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Braid: Ban on sex in school library books even outlaws romance and hand-holding

The Alberta government's ban on sex in school library books kept getting more restrictive, until it even banned romance

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Braid: Alberta hit by measles comparison with U.S., but all Canada is an epidemic in waiting

17.07.2025 8

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Braid: Alberta hit by measles comparison with U.S., but all Canada is an epidemic in waiting

Vaccination rates are dangerously low across the country. Escaping a big infection cluster like Alberta's is largely dumb luck

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Braid: Nenshi arrives on the legislature job with a powerful political cause Separatism is emotional and universal. Polls show a large majority of Albertans want nothing to do with it. Nenshi offers himself as their full-throated patriotic champion

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Braid: Nenshi arrives on the legislature job with a powerful political cause

Separatism is emotional and universal. Polls show a large majority of Albertans want nothing to do with it. Nenshi offers himself as their...

15.07.2025 10

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Braid: Carney promises development but keeps the Trudeau laws that hinder it

10.07.2025 5

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Braid: Carney promises development but keeps the Trudeau laws that hinder it

The dawning suspicion is that Carney faces tough resistance from the old Trudeau stalwarts

09.07.2025 5

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Braid: Ontario's Doug Ford buckles up for Stampede — and for Alberta's future Ford is all-in for a west-east oil pipeline. Ontario and Alberta officials talked seriously Monday of a new line to an Ontario port on James Bay

08.07.2025 10

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Braid: Ontario's Doug Ford buckles up for Stampede — and for Alberta pipelines

Ford is all-in for a west-east oil pipeline. Ontario and Alberta officials talked seriously Monday of a new line to an Ontario port on James Bay

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Braid: Alberta PC Party may arise from their zombie years to challenge UCP

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Don Braid: Independent MLAs look to revive zombie Alberta PC Party to challenge UCP

The reborn PCs would be 'fiscally responsible and socially reliable,' says MLA Peter Guthrie. They are also 'conservatives who want to say inside...

03.07.2025 10

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Braid: Alberta PC Party may arise from their zombie years to challenge UCP

'We're conservatives who want to say inside Canada,' said Lesser Slave Lake MLA Scott Sinclair

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Braid: Alberta's pro-Canada forces scoop separatists, set referendum question

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Braid: Alberta's pro-Canada forces scoop separatists, set referendum question

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Braid: Lavish private-school funding infuriates teachers, spooks government Simply put, the UCP is increasing private school support at a much faster rate than funding for public schools

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Braid: Carney talks nice but oil and gas still face uniquely hostile laws

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Braid: The UCP retreats on library book ban after making Alberta an international punchline Under mounting pressure, the UCP caved, but they had to blame somebody on the way out — and the school boards were right at hand

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Braid: Alberta's pro-Canada forces scoop separatists, set referendum question

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Braid: Smith breaks open the public piggy bank to solve school shortage, blames Trudeau

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Don Braid: Calgary police say crime is down. Maybe they should look out the window

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Braid: Police say crime is down, but social disorder and street crime run wild

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Braid: Ban on sex in school library books gets more explicit than the offending material

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Braid: Ban on sex in school library books even outlaws romance and hand-holding

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Braid: Alberta hit by measles comparison with U.S., but all Canada is an epidemic in waiting

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Braid: Alberta hit by measles comparison with U.S., but all Canada is an epidemic in waiting