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Could it be true? Could there even be a possibility?
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If there is a snowball’s chance in hell to wake up Premier Jason Kenney and his trusty brain trust, let this latest nosecount this number-crunching from Leger be the snowball to survive the eternal flames and pierce through the cocoon.
Yes, it’s only one poll. Yes, it’s just a snapshot in time. Yes, it’s two years until the election and two years is an eternity in politics.
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On Feb. 20, as maskless men and women marched in my Edmonton bearing the torches of Charlottesville, I had a sense of homecoming.
I was born in Edmonton, raised in Edmonton. I’ve worked in the halls of the legislative assembly of Alberta, the grounds at which the rally was held last weekend. My love for this province is irrational and defies explanation.
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The love of my neighbours, of my fundamentally good friends growing up, of the incredible spirit of this city, makes it easy to want to turn away from what happened on Feb. 20. Sen. Paula Simons, a good friend to this city and who wrote for this esteemed newspaper before her appointment to the Senate, exemplified this kind of perspective, as she wrote recently, “My Edmonton and my Alberta aren’t defined by a disgruntled few.”
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic altered the fabric of everything in Edmonton this year but it’s not the story that sticks with me the most it’s photographing a night where a community gathered to remember 13-year-old Sierra Chalifoux-Thompson.
More than one hundred supporters surrounded her mother Angela Chalifoux as they carried candles and wore purple and white ribbons in memory of a girl taken much, much too early. To the sound of drums, they walked from the Sands Hotel to the site of Sierra’s fatal assault at 75 Street and Mount Lawn Road.
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