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Braid: Facing first heavy attack in NDP leadership race, Nenshi denies he's against unions

The previously polite NDP leadership race turned red-hot Wednesday with allegations that candidate Naheed Nenshi is anti-union. A letter surfaced in...

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Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Alberta NDP leadership race gets hot as Nenshi accused of being anti-union

The union vote within the party, or at least some of it, is considered crucial to any NDP leadership candidate’s victory You can save this article...

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Don Braid: Calgary kills unpopular paper bag bylaw but don't worry, they'll just do another one

Its proponent's social-control thinking drove people nuts. Larger goals are often hidden behind seemingly minor actions like a little bag bylaw You...

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Braid: Council kills the bag bylaw but don't worry, they'll just do another one

Blanket zoning sucked the air out of paper bags. That’s one way to see Tuesday’s meagre turnout — only five speakers — for a public hearing on...

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Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: The feds can learn from UCP's very bad week and reverse capital gains tax hike

The UCP went into full retreat from a pair of bad policy decisions. That's a lesson the Trudeau Liberals should absorb on the harmful tax You can save...

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Braid: Feds can learn from UCP's very bad week — reverse tax hike and give doctors a hand

The UCP are nursing a pair of serious self-inflicted wounds after their worst week since the early days of Premier Danielle Smith’s regime. It takes...

03.05.2024 20

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Smith goes into municipalities' lane, even as she tells feds to stay in theirs

The message to municipal leaders is that they’re subservient, not independent. Every action — even their election by Albertans — will be open to...

01.05.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: Smith infuriates local leaders with effort to stifle independence. It's all about sovereignty

Alberta politics suddenly has more lanes than a bowling alley. Stay out of our lane, Premier Danielle Smith says to Ottawa. Now she sends the same...

01.05.2024 50

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Canada is increasingly out of step with modern advances. High speed rail in Alberta could change that

These trains would replace thousands, even millions, of automobile trips, leading to lower emissions, safer travel and much greater convenience You...

30.04.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: Can Alberta build North America's best rail system? It's worth trying

Sometimes in the middle of a nightmare you can suddenly have a pleasant dream. The nightmare is driving from Calgary to Edmonton, for roughly the...

30.04.2024 30

Calgary Herald

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Braid: No matter how much they talk, single-family zoning will end in Calgary

The daily hearings into blanket rezoning crawl along, sometimes confusing, often emotional, occasionally inspiring. The result seems inevitable....

27.04.2024 20

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Step by step, the UCP bends Alberta authorities to its will

These are the latest moves in a widespread consolidation of provincial government power You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

26.04.2024 10

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Braid: Step by step, the UCP bends Alberta authorities to its will

New rules for towns and cities make it clear who’s the boss. It’s the UCP government, not local councils or the voters who elect them. Under...

26.04.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: UCP goes ahead with fuel tax hike despite federal increase, high inflation

The UCP of 2024 is more concerned with overall finances than rising costs for Albertans You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

22.03.2024 7

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Braid: UCP goes ahead with fuel tax hike despite federal increase, high inflation

The post-election UCP no longer seems to care so much about your cost-of-living problems. On Thursday, we learned that Alberta’s inflation rate is...

21.03.2024 5

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Awkward! Alberta, Ottawa set to raise gasoline tax on same day

The Trudeau Liberals must be having a good laugh at a strange and awkward twist in Alberta. Federal and provincial tax increases are about to...

20.03.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: UCP penchant for broken promises now features naked favouritism

How many promises can a government break, alter or evade and still get away with it? Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP seem determined to find out....

19.03.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Trudeau's secret weapon; Axe the Tax means Ruin the Rebate

Trudeau faces fierce opposition to the carbon tax, but his secret weapon is the growing carbon tax rebate. If the tax goes so does the cash

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Don Braid: Trudeau's carbon pricing secret weapon; Axe the Tax means Ruin the Rebate

The PM suggested his noble duty is to raise the tax so he can send us more cash. And voters have shown that money is a far more powerful motivator...

16.03.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: Trudeau's secret weapon; Axe the Tax means Ruin the Rebate

Albertans receive far higher carbon tax rebates from Ottawa than any other Canadians. A family of four will get $1,800 annually, up from $1,544 last...

15.03.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: UCP comparing Naheed Nenshi to Stalin is exactly the kind of direct attack he wants

The more freaked out the UCP sounds about him, the better Nenshi's Alberta NDP leadership strategy could work Naheed Nenshi entered the Alberta...

13.03.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: Nenshi gets a UCP legislature welcome like Stalin might have faced

Naheed Nenshi entered the Alberta legislature Monday, accompanied by Joseph Stalin. Not literally, mind you. But they were condemned in almost the...

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Calgary Herald

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Braid: Ex-Mayor Nenshi joins NDP race; slams Smith's 'playground fights'

Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi vaulted into the Alberta NDP leadership race Monday afternoon with a slogan that reaches far beyond the traditional...

12.03.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Former Calgary Mayor joins NDP race, slams Smith's 'playground fights'

Naheed Nenshi offers himself as the outsider who can build a broad coalition to defeat the UCP and defend core values of tolerance and inclusion...

11.03.2024 10

National Post

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Don Braid: Alberta UCP won't support NDP rent control bill but ignore the problem behind it

The NDP will try to keep their bill alive for serious debate, but expect the UCP majority to shut it down very quickly. This is an awkward issue for a...

06.03.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: NDP wants rent hikes capped at five per cent. No chance UCP will agree

The UCP will almost certainly squash an NDP bill that comes up in the legislature next Monday. It calls for rent control, a constant no-no over...

06.03.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Naheed Nenshi expected to announce Alberta NDP leadership run soon, but faces a maze of rules

For an NDP outsider, it might be easier to ask the Vatican for sainthood than be accepted as a leadership candidate Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi...

05.03.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: Nenshi expected to go public March 11, but faces a maze of NDP rules

Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is quiet and elusive about a potential run for the NDP leadership. That’s because it’s not easy being orange,...

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Calgary Herald

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Braid: Brian Mulroney, the prime minister who made the modern West

In the end Brian Mulroney was widely disliked in western Canada, despite some of the best policies the region has ever seen Mother Martin’s bar in...

01.03.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: Brian Mulroney, the prime minister who made the modern West

Mother Martin’s bar in Montreal was always lively, especially when Brian Mulroney entertained reporters with stories about his arch-rival Joe Clark....

01.03.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: The budget stalls tax relief, reveals hard cash paid to end lab test fiasco

The big income tax break promised by the UCP will come late. Four years late, to be exact. The full tax relief won’t kick in until 2027. It was...

01.03.2024 6

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Danielle Smith tells Take Back Alberta leader to 'get some help' after attacks on Poilievre and wife

Smith knows David Parker well and attended his wedding. But now he’s gone too far even for the libertarian premier Well, finally. Premier Danielle...

28.02.2024 9

National Post

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Braid: Premier Smith blasts David Parker of TBA for attacks on Poilievre and wife

Well, finally. Premier Danielle Smith tore into Take Back Alberta Leader David Parker Tuesday, urging him to “get some help.” She condemned...

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Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Now TBA's Parker insults Poilievre. Will Premier Smith ever disown him?

Barely a day after begging forgiveness from his followers, Parker posted the tweet about Poilievre and his wife It’s long past time for Premier...

26.02.2024 30

National Post

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Braid: Now TBA's Parker insults Poilievre. Will Premier Smith ever disown him?

It’s long past time for Premier Danielle Smith to disown David Parker, the unrestrained, frequently unhinged leader of Take Back Alberta. But will...

26.02.2024 30

Calgary Herald

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Braid: The ugly Nenshi-Parker dustup and the politics of personal insult

A battle of insults on social media shows how far we’ve descended into personal invective as a political weapon. All too often the attacks are...

22.02.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Trudeau doesn't look like a prime minister who's ready to quit

Trudeau is still a masterful pitchman. He might yet decide to leave. He could be forced out by his party. But on Wednesday in Alberta, he looked ready...

22.02.2024 20

National Post

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Braid: Trudeau doesn't look like a Prime Minister who's ready to quit

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t look defeated, defensive or worried. He may be down 20 per cent in the polls — a fact he shrugs off —...

22.02.2024 10

Calgary Herald

Don Braid

Braid: Poll shows Nenshi's high recognition would upend NDP leadership race

A new poll shows that Naheed Nenshi would create far more interest and recognition than any of the party insiders in the NDP race. If he runs, that...

21.02.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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Braid: NDP candidates fire back at crackpot bill to ban energy industry ads

The federal climate change agenda is failing. The radicals are panicking. NDP federal MP Charlie Angus, from northern Ontario, wants to jail oil...

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Calgary Herald

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Braid: Former mayoral candidate Jeff Davison says Gondek is so terrible he might run again

Former city councillor Jeff Davison ran for mayor in 2021, lost, and immediately offered winner Jyoti Gondek his support. She thanked him in return. ...

13.02.2024 30

Calgary Herald

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Braid: An NDP leadership candidate's startling opener — axe the carbon tax

Rakhi Pancholi doesn’t enter the NDP leadership race with a routine splash. Her opener is more like a cannonball from the high tower. The Edmonton...

10.02.2024 6

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Smith pitches new rules to the UCP members who run leaders out of office

Premier Danielle Smith is going further than any other Canadian leader in regulating transgender treatment and surgery. She will virtually outlaw any...

08.02.2024 20

Calgary Herald

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Braid: Fury at Smith's new transgender rules sparks giant city hall protest

At Saturday’s huge Calgary city hall rally, I saw gay and transgender kids, their parents and friends, several cute dogs, forests of makeshift...

04.02.2024 10

Calgary Herald

Don Braid

Braid: As Smith's rules erupt on national stage, it's the kids who feel the pain

Think of the children. Imagine the pain of gay and transgender kids as they once again find themselves under the alien eye of government. That...

02.02.2024 20

Calgary Herald

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Don Braid: Smith's rules for gender surgery, sex ed and parent rights come under fierce attack

Smith claims her policy is rooted in caring and love. Others see prejudice and oppression. This move will brand Alberta for years to come Premier...

01.02.2024 10

National Post

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Braid: Smith's rules for gender surgery, sex ed and parent rights come under fierce attack

Premier Danielle Smith didn’t just suddenly step onto the path of government control over human sexuality. This unprecedented program was under...

01.02.2024 20

Calgary Herald

Don Braid

Braid: Gondek lost on bag bylaw but still got a 'win' — blocking tax relief

A long day at city hall can provide enough baloney for a thousand picnics. Tuesday was one such day, as councillors finally caved on their absurd...

01.02.2024 10

Calgary Herald

Don Braid

Braid: Public fury sends the bag bylaw packing — but Gondek stays on wrong side

This was also the first big crack in the Gondek majority on council City council sent the hated single-use bylaw on a death march Tuesday, by a...

31.01.2024 7

National Post

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Braid: Public fury sends the bag bylaw packing — but Gondek stays on wrong side

City council sent the hated single-use bylaw on a death march Tuesday, by a startling count of 8-7 on the first vote, and 10-5 on the main. A public...

31.01.2024 5

Calgary Herald

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