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UPDATED: Hate? Or Hateful Stupidity?: Idiot Vandals Assault Government House...
Government House will mark its 100th birthday next year. It deserves a little respect. In its 99 years, Alberta’s Government House has experienced its share of indignities. In 1937, for example, the...
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Neverman
Venue: BYOV 40: Ritchie Community League The Very Official Theatre Company A new play, Neverman takes place in Alberta during the Great Depression and tells the tale of a newlywed farm couple,...
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A Premier without a seat? If Jim Prentice wins, what’s next?
Former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice is the front-runner in the Progressive Conservative leadership race. If Jim Prentice, the putative front-runner, does win the Progressive Conservative...
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Day in History, Oct. 22, 1975: Former lieutenant-governor's portrait placed...
After being forced out of Government House almost 40 years earlier in a historic Alberta controversy, former lieutenant-governor John C. Bowen finally took his place in the legislative building. A...
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Paige MacPherson: Let's avoid a rerun of Alberta's nasty history with debt
Mere months ago the Alberta government enjoyed a triple-A credit rating, low unemployment, higher-than-average wages and lovely low taxes. Money flowed. But oh, how quickly the tides can turn for the...
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Paula Simons: Eighty years ago, the Edmonton Journal won a Pulitzer Prize....
March 1938 was an eventful time. Hitler annexed Austria. Stalin concluded the Trial of the 21, one of his more infamous show trials. Franco’s forces seized Catalonia and bombed Barcelona. The...
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