Recent ThinkHQ opinion polling shows Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek to be very unpopular. It is unusual to see such unpopularity so early for a new Calgary mayor, observers say. Why is she so unpopular? Gondek’s unpopularity is not alone the result of troubled times and voter crankiness, as the mayor tried to explain–which is not…
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In the midst of a perfect triad of storms, Alberta should combat the COVID-19 pandemic as though there were no attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry, and it must combat the attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry as though there was no COVID-19.
Regressive and oppressive Iranian Shiite mullahs have proven to be more reasonable business counterparts than former World Wildlife Fund apparatchiks in Ottawa, populist nationalists in Quebec City, and the rigid eco-zealous alliance of Greens and New Democrats in Victoria. This is Alberta’s problem!