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Danielle Smith's Mr. Burns strategy

The UCP leadership frontrunner is so sick she’s perfectly healthy

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Jeremy Appel
Aug 23, 2022
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There’s an Alberta politics analogy here, I promise. (Screenshot)

In the Season 11 Simpsons episode “The Mansion Family” — released well after the show’s golden age but before it became unwatchable — Mr. Burns goes to his physician for a checkup. 

“Mr. Burns, I’m afraid you are the sickest man in the United States,” his unnamed doctor says. “You have eve…

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