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Still a few months from the mid-point of her term, Premier Rachel Notley says her government still has momentum but wants delegates to keep their gaze forward.

“Almost 18 months,” Notley said during one of her few departures from a scripted speech given at the NDP provincial council Saturday, “not old yet.”

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Addressing a room of NDP faithful, she said her party needs to hold strong to the policies it has created if the province is to avoid slipping back into old ways that led to problems of today.

Referring to Wildrose rhetoric as the “anger machine,” she pointed to goals including economic diversification, education, climate change and on breaking the “landlock” to bring oil to tidewater as keys to their success in the fewer than 1,000 days until the next election.

“We won’t respond to job losses by creating more job losses,” she said.

For those suffering job losses, staying the course might be less welcome a strategy. Notley said what would be worse is extending cuts to social services that she said have only just rebounded from past cuts.