Running the risk of losing an election from taking unpopular (and unnecessary) stands in a series of referenda is pointless.

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Here’s some sage advice for Alberta’s UCP government — don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to, don’t pick scabs that have already healed and don’t start fights you can’t win.

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On Friday, the Alberta Next panel released a list of seven recommendations it came up with after holding townhall meetings on Alberta’s future in 10 communities last summer and fall.

If I had to come up with three words to describe the recommendations they would be — referendums, referendums, referendums.

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