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Braid: Smith admits referendum is an 'outlet' to keep new parties from splitting UCP Encouraging a referendum on separation is a very strange way to work for a united Canada

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Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Smith admits referendum is an 'outlet' to keep new parties from splitting UCP

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Calgary Herald

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Braid: Former UCP minister Peter Guthrie says separatism campaign could severely damage economy

saturday 5

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Former UCP minister Peter Guthrie says separatism campaign could severely damage economy

About 700 companies left Quebec during the rule of the separatist Parti Quebecois, most fleeing to Toronto

09.05.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Will 'yes' vote on independence force Premier Smith to act? She won't say

08.05.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Will 'yes' vote on independence force Premier Smith to act? She won't say

07.05.2025 7

Calgary Herald

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Braid: A first for any province outside Quebec — premier welcomes a vote on separation

07.05.2025 6

Calgary Herald

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Braid: A first for any province outside Quebec — premier welcomes a vote on separation

07.05.2025 7

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Smith's government mutes vaccine skepticism in face of a measles epidemic

07.05.2025 7

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Smith's government mutes vaccine skepticism in face of a measles epidemic

It took a looming crisis to force the UCP into action. The problem they face is one they helped cause

06.05.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: UCP stokes a separatist frenzy with new referendum rules. It's a dangerous game

Braid: UCP stokes a separatist frenzy with new referendum rules. It's a dangerous game
03.05.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: UCP stokes a separatist frenzy with new referendum rules. It's a dangerous game

Braid: UCP stokes a separatist frenzy with new referendum rules. It's a dangerous game
02.05.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Former UCP premier Jason Kenney refutes separatists, says Carney has chance to right wrongs

Braid: Former UCP premier Jason Kenney refutes separatists, says Carney has chance to right wrongs
01.05.2025 5

Edmonton Journal

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Don Braid: Jason Kenney refutes Alberta's 'fringe' separatists, says Carney has 'clean slate' with province

Don Braid: Jason Kenney refutes Alberta's 'fringe' separatists, says Carney has 'clean slate' with province

Alberta has 'totally legitimate grievances,' but the 'so-called separatist movement' is 'counterproductive,' the former premier said

01.05.2025 10

National Post

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Braid: Former UCP premier Jason Kenney refutes separatists, says Carney has chance to right wrongs

Braid: Former UCP premier Jason Kenney refutes separatists, says Carney has chance to right wrongs

'When it comes to separation, I think the so-called separatist movement in Alberta has never been a serious enterprise ... It's always been a fringe...

01.05.2025 20

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Canada's national voting system is honest and trusted, unlike the U.S. fiasco

Braid: Canada's national voting system is honest and trusted, unlike the U.S. fiasco
24.04.2025 4

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Canada's national voting system is honest and trusted, unlike the U.S. fiasco

Braid: Canada's national voting system is honest and trusted, unlike the U.S. fiasco

It's worth every penny because Canadians know their vote is in safe hands. We may not like the outcome, but we trust the voting and the counting

23.04.2025 20

Calgary Herald

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Braid: UCP whistleblower Peter Guthrie spends his days in lonely silence

17.04.2025 7

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: UCP whistleblower Peter Guthrie spends his days in lonely silence

16.04.2025 6

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Poilievre would overrule Supreme Court, while Alberta, Quebec demand power A formal alliance between Quebec and Alberta on these issues would be formidable

16.04.2025 4

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Poilievre would overrule Supreme Court, while Alberta, Quebec demand power

A formal alliance between Quebec and Alberta on these issues would be formidable

15.04.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Carney's grand plan for oil and gas — can we believe it?

11.04.2025 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Braid: Carney's grand plan for oil and gas — can we believe it?

11.04.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Carney's grand plan for oil and gas — can we believe it?

11.04.2025 7

Edmonton Journal

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BRAID: Carney's grand plan for oil and gas — can we believe it?

10.04.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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BRAID: Carney's grand plan for oil and gas — can we believe it?

10.04.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Braid: Conservatives see rebound as Trump goes quiet about Canada

10.04.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Don Braid: Conservatives see rebound as Trump goes quiet about Canada

A campaign-long battle with Trump was the best scenario for the Liberals. It didn’t seem to matter that Poilievre was just as fierce about...

09.04.2025 10

National Post

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Braid: Conservatives see rebound as Trump goes quiet about Canada

09.04.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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BRAID: Alberta separatism going nowhere but it's a toxic factor in campaign

08.04.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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Braid: Alberta separatism is going nowhere but it's a toxic factor in campaign

08.04.2025 20

Calgary Herald

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BRAID: Alberta separatism going nowhere but it's a toxic factor in campaign

08.04.2025 8

Ottawa Sun

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Braid: Smith's tariff victory cry alarms Conservatives as Ontario car sector gets pounded

05.04.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Smith's tariff victory cry alarms Conservatives as Ontario car sector gets pounded

05.04.2025 7

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Cancer kids have popsicles back but AHS boss says we just don't get it

03.04.2025 7

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Government caves on popsicle ban for cancer kids, but admits nothing

02.04.2025 5

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Cancer kids have popsicles back but AHS boss says we just don't get it

02.04.2025 20

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Government caves on popsicle ban for cancer kids, but admits nothing

02.04.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Defiant premier says they'll roll her off in a stretcher before she stops lobbying against U.S. tariffs Smith says she's trying to get tariffs delayed and removed, period, until after the election

28.03.2025 20

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Alberta premier shares stage with podcaster who sneers at Canada

27.03.2025 8

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Braid: Defiant premier says they'll roll her off in a stretcher before she stops lobbying against U.S. tariffs

27.03.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Smith shares stage with podcaster who would deny Canadians the vote

27.03.2025 7

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Smith shares stage with podcaster who would deny Canadians the vote

27.03.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Carney promises Liberal friendship to oil and gas. Are we dreaming?

22.03.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Carney promises Liberal friendship to oil and gas. Are we dreaming?

21.03.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Carney promises Liberal friendship to oil and gas. One can dream

Many Albertans won’t trust Carney’s words. They ring of cynical electioneering to suit the radically changed national mood created by U.S....

21.03.2025 8

National Post

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Braid: Shake off the rust, Liberals. Give the real Canada a try

20.03.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: Shake off the rust, Liberals. Give the real Canada a try

Facing the Trump storm, Carney seems onside with expanding energy production, finding new markets, and even building pipelines

19.03.2025 20

Calgary Herald

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Braid: A Liberal prime minister elected from an Alberta riding? Carney might do it

13.03.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Braid: A Liberal prime minister elected from an Alberta riding? Carney might do it

Mark Carney has deep roots in both the province and the eternally challenged Alberta branch of the Liberals

12.03.2025 20

Calgary Herald

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