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Lorne Gunter

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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.

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.
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Edmonton Journal

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

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.

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.”

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

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.

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 3

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

27.11.2025 8

Ottawa Sun

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

There is every indication that Carney is as anti-oil as his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, despite all his talk of building an energy superpower

26.11.2025 10

National Post

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Lorne Gunter: Rising Alberta health-care costs make private service option viable

26.11.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Nutrien's U.S. port project shows Carney's MPO more about politics than results

23.11.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Nutrien's U.S. port project shows Carney's MPO more about politics than results Potash is a key component in agricultural fertilizer, and demand is on the rise worldwide. Farms in places such as China, India and Japan are consuming ever larger quantities.

23.11.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Nutrien's U.S. port project shows Carney's MPO more about politics than results

23.11.2025 7

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Feds’ treatment of Alberta versus Quebec clearly uneven

22.11.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Smith government's use of notwithstanding clause is within the spirit of the Charter

20.11.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Interim PBO's refreshing frankness unlikely to win him full-time job

20.11.2025 3

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Interim PBO's refreshing frankness unlikely to win him full-time job

20.11.2025 6

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Interim PBO's refreshing frankness unlikely to win him full-time job

20.11.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Great idea won't work to cut Edmonton property tax increases Ward Dene Coun. Aaron Paquette has a good idea to fund annual property tax increases. Rather than jacking up taxes on city residents year after year, Paquette wants to grow the Ed Tel Endowment Fund to $6 billion from $1 billion over the next decade or decade-and-a-half, then use the annual interest to offset increases in property taxes.

19.11.2025 9

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Alberta's proposal to increase certain highway speed limits not reckless

15.11.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Carney's major projects more PR than 'nation building' Since none of the 10 projects Carney has announced has a similar capacity to expand GDP and raise government revenues, it’s a puzzle why a pipeline has not been announced

15.11.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Carney's major projects more PR than 'nation building'

15.11.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Carney's major projects more PR than 'nation building'

15.11.2025 6

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Liberals' hatred of Alberta and oil obvious in major projects snub

14.11.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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