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Year in review: Danielle Smith's Wildrose Alliance has plenty of work ahead

Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith.

When Dean Leask fled the dynastic Progressive Conservatives about a year ago for the Wildrose Alliance, he had serious reservations about jumping to the unproven, nascent party.

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Braid: Stakes are high for ambitious Ted Morton in Highwood fight

Finance Minister Ted Morton is about to launch an epic political battle -- but who's the real opponent, Danielle Smith or Ed Stelmach?

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24 Sussex feels like home to Laureen Harper and the brood

Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, says family life at 24 Sussex Drive isn't much different than in any other Canadian household.

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A massive protest banner overhangs the tailing ponds on Syncrude's Aurora operation north of Fort McMurray, Alta. July 24, 2008.

Jim Prentice in WikiLeaks release: Harper government 'too slow' to fight dirty oil label

While still serving as federal environment minister, Jim Prentice privately told the U.S. ambassador...

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Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann calls a convention resolution for a possible alliance with the NDP or Alberta Party an "unfortunate sidetrack."

Year-end interview: Alberta Liberals 'back on track'

Former Alberta Liberal party president Tony Sansotta isn't about to say, "I told you so," but he and...

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Health

Alberta fertility industry to remain unregulated

Alberta has no immediate plans to regulate the thriving fertility industry, despite Wednesday's ruling...

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Canadians trust military more than government: Poll

Canadians have more trust and confidence in Canada's armed forces than they do in Prime Minister Stephen...

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Ted Morton, Danielle Smith may go head-to-head in Cowboy Country election battle

Call it the rural rumble; the clash of conservative champions.

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Year-end interview: Calgary Mayor Nenshi set for growth battle

He made it through budget deliberations this fall with no deep wounds to his political capital, but next year, Naheed Nenshi will be girding for what could be some of the biggest challenges of his mayoralty.

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Alberta still lists homosexuality as a 'mental disorder'

Alberta continues to list homosexuality as a "mental disorder" along with bestiality and pedophilia, and doctors used the diagnostic code to bill the province for treating gays and lesbians more than 1,750 times between 1995 and 2004, government records show.

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Premier Ed Stelmach says Albertans should put their faith in his Tories: "We have a very good track record. This is a party that has had the trust and confidence of Albertans for 40 years, through four different administrations and four different challenges."

Only Tories can be trusted on health care: Stelmach

Premier Ed Stelmach says only his Progressive Conservatives can be trusted to manage Alberta's ailing medical system and guide Alberta through a prolonged economic storm, discounting the Wildrose Alliance as a "far-right" party.

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Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Canada has to wait for economic conditions to improve before contemplating an expansion to the Canada Pension Plan.

Finance ministers give go-ahead to pension plan for small, medium-sized businesses

Canada's finance ministers closed their meeting in the Alberta Rockies Monday with an agreement to keep the possibility of Canada Pension Plan expansion alive -- with a careful examination of the financial consequences -- while moving ahead with a private-sector vehicle for retirement savings.

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Premier Stelmach warns of cuts to come

Premier Ed Stelmach says his government may be forced to break a key promise of balancing the books by 2012-13, while warning Albertans of a "difficult" spring provincial budget featuring program cuts.

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Jim Flaherty, federal finance minister, meets with provincial ministers at the Delta Lodge in Kananaskis Village, Alberta on December 20, 2010.

Flaherty to provinces: Focus on deficits or risk EU-style crisis

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was set to tell his provincial counterparts on Monday that eliminating budget deficits is his biggest concern following the economic crisis.

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Harper takes control of Senate with 2 appointments

Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed two more people to the Senate on Monday, a historic move which gives his party its long-sought majority in the upper chamber.

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Alberta Health and Wellness Minister Gene Zwozdesky, left, and Dr. Tom Feasby announce that the province is launching a $1-million, three-year "observational study" of those who have undergone the so-called liberation treatment for multiple sclerosis.

Breakenridge: Politics not science pushing MS treatment agenda

breakenridge on liberation therapy

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Republican senators challenged to approve 9/11 health bill

New York's leading power brokers challenged the patriotism of Republican senators on Monday, urging them to support a bill that would give medical benefits to 9/11 responders sickened by Ground Zero's toxic dust.

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