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Alberta Wildrose Election

Where She Came From, How She Got Here

CP | Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.22.2012 | Canada Politics
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EDMONTON - When Danielle Smith won the Wildrose party leadership in the fall of 2009, she took to the stage at an Edmonton hotel and gave 400 cheering...

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Coming Up Roses After 40 Years Of Tory Rule?

CP | Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.22.2012 | Canada Politics
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EDMONTON - Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives defied the pollsters Monday, winning a 12th consecutive majority government that will see them enter ...

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Alberta's Wildrose Party Must Embrace the "Dirty Harry Gambit"

Gerry Nicholls | Posted 04.16.2012 | Canada Politics
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Gerry Nicholls

The Conservatives played up the idea of building more prisons and enacting tougher laws. The Tories did this because they knew full well that their right-wing "law and order" supporters would love it, but so would ordinary non-ideological voters who just want criminals thrown in jail. I call this ploy, the "Dirty Harry Gambit."

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