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Lorne Gunter

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GUNTER: Danielle Smith correct in calling for swift action on pipelines

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Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Danielle Smith correct in calling for swift action on pipelines

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Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Danielle Smith correct in calling for swift action on pipelines If Alberta can gets oil to market first, it will also better withstand Venezuelan competition when that country gets its stuff together.

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Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Small uptake for Liberal gun buyback no surprise

11.01.2026 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Small uptake for Liberal gun buyback no surprise

11.01.2026 20

Ottawa Sun

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Gunter: Small uptake for Liberal gun buyback no surprise This past fall, the federal government ran a pilot program on Cape Breton for its long-delayed firearms confiscation scheme.

11.01.2026 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Recall petitions in Alberta will force politicians to explain themselves

09.01.2026 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Less talk and more action needed on clearing snow from Edmonton streets The infuriating part of this is that the city has been plowing snow for nearly 80 years. Ours should be the city other cities come to to ask advice and emulate our success.

08.01.2026 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Commodities on the Prairies missing from 'Build Canada strong' campaign

07.01.2026 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Commodities on the Prairies missing from 'Build Canada strong' campaign

07.01.2026 20

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Commodities on the Prairies missing from 'Build Canada strong' campaign My bet is, at least when it comes to oil and gas, the decision not to mention the energy sector was premeditated.

07.01.2026 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Citizens don't make distinction between crime and social disorder

06.01.2026 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Citizens don't make distinction between crime and social disorder

06.01.2026 20

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Citizens don't make distinction between crime and social disorder Crime going down is better than it going up, but officialdom shouldn’t pat itself on the back too hard.

06.01.2026 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Trump's Iran tirade ill-advised, but the right message

03.01.2026 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Trump's Iran tirade ill-advised, but the right message

03.01.2026 20

Ottawa Sun

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Gunter: Trump's Iran tirade ill-advised, but the right message Telling a foreign country on social media at 3:00 in the morning that your country is “locked and loaded and ready to go” is neither intelligent nor strategic. Yet that’s exactly what U.S. President Donald Trump did on his Truth Social in the middle of Thursday night.

03.01.2026 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: UCP open can of worms with Alberta Next recommendations Running the risk of losing an election from taking unpopular (and unnecessary) stands in a series of referenda is pointless.

23.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Eby's anti-oil stance could force Washington State pipeline route

20.12.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Eby's anti-oil stance could force Washington State pipeline route

20.12.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Eby's anti-oil stance could force Washington State pipeline route How’s this for a win-win deal? Alberta lets Premier David Eby, his B.C. NDP government and radical, anti-development First Nations group live in their little “green” bubble west of the Rockies while Alberta finds an investor or investors to build a pipeline to the West Coast through Montana, Idaho and Washington state.

20.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Parking-fee proposal no tax-reduction windfall Before I examine the merits of making Edmontonians pay for parking city attractions and recreation centres, can we all please just agree that no one on council or in administration should use as an excuse for spending taxpayers’ money the line “because our city will soon have two million people.”

19.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Canada must stop tolerating extreme jihadist activity

18.12.2025 5

Toronto Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Answer the bell — AHS should reinstate ceremony marking successful cancer treatment Bell ringing when leaving a cancer ward at the end of successful treatment is not specifically a Christmas tradition. However, it’s hard to think of a more Grinch-y action than AHS’s decision to stop the tradition for young cancer patients at Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital.

18.12.2025 5

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Canada must stop tolerating extreme jihadist activity

18.12.2025 5

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Canada must stop tolerating extreme jihadist activity After the killing of 15 Jews on Bondi Beach in Sydney on the first night of Hanukkah, the Australian government proposed new gun controls.

17.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Onus on Art Gallery of Alberta to attract more visitors

16.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Floor-crossers to Liberals go against voters' wishes

13.12.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Floor-crossers to Liberals go against voters' wishes

13.12.2025 8

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Floor-crossers to Liberals go against voters' wishes I’m sorry, Mr. Ma, but it makes you look a little flaky to be elected to the House of Commons for the first time in April, then in December to switch parties from the Conservatives to the Liberals.

13.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: UCP wrote the recall petition laws, now they must abide by them

12.12.2025 9

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Poilievre Conservatives favour stunts over substance, and it's hurting them

11.12.2025 8

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Bureaucracy, not money, cause of Canadian health-care wait times

11.12.2025 5

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Bureaucracy, not money, cause of Canadian health-care wait times

10.12.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Bureaucracy, not money, the cause of Canadian health-care wait times Waiting for the medical care Canadians need has become the national pastime. But unlike America’s pastime — baseball — hanging around for the care you need is not a good way to spend a sunny, summer afternoon even if your have hotdogs and beer.

10.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Edmonton city council could have looked deeper to cut 2026 budget To add insult to injury, the city’s free-spending administration had only asked council for a 6.4 per cent increase.

09.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Edmonton city council refuses to live within taxpayers’ means Well, that didn’t take long.

05.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Alberta's refusal to enforce federal gun buyback program logical, sensible It’s not just Alberta that is refusing to aid the federal government in its useless gun buyback program.

04.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Canada faces massive internal roadblocks to pipeline, 'nation-building' projects

04.12.2025 3

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Canada faces massive internal roadblocks to pipeline, 'nation-building' projects

04.12.2025 3

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Canada faces massive internal roadblocks to pipeline, 'nation-building' projects Want to know why nothing of significance ever gets built in this country? Consider the allegations levelled by NDP leadership contender Avi Lewis against pipelines, mines and other “nation-building projects” proposed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and others such as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

03.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Making shopping decisions for you: Edmonton approves infill without parking requirements

02.12.2025 9

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: MOU's hurdles make chances of a new pipeline to Pacific coast slim

30.11.2025 8

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Premier Smith needs to control hardcore UCPers to advance in Edmonton, Calgary Danielle Smith and her UCP will not do better in Edmonton and even Calgary until the premier gets the hardcore of her party under control.

30.11.2025 9

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: MOU's hurdles make chances of a new pipeline to Pacific coast slim

29.11.2025 9

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: MOU's hurdles make chances of a new pipeline to Pacific coast slim

29.11.2025 9

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Highlight of Carney-Smith MOU is departure of Guilbeault from Liberal cabinet

28.11.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Count on Knack's city council to continue high-tax, low-value government

27.11.2025 9

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Despite MOU, Carney sets up West Coast pipeline push to fail

27.11.2025 8

Toronto Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Despite MOU, Carney sets up West Coast pipeline push to fail

27.11.2025 8

Edmonton Journal

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