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On the evening of May 5, 2015, when Rachel Notley realized the NDP had toppled the 44-year-old Progressive Conservative government, she began her election victory speech with the understatement of the day: “Well my friends, I think we might have made a little bit of history tonight.”

And then she added what would become the understatement of the year: “I believe that change has finally come to Alberta.”

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Boy, has it ever.

We’ve seen so much change the past year, the province’s political face is barely recognizable.

A climate change plan, a carbon tax, a $10-billion provincial deficit, an end to political donations from corporations, no more flat-tax on income, gender parity in the government caucus, more women than men in cabinet — and a baby, of the literal not figurative kind, on the front benches of the legislative assembly.

Notley and her do-gooding team have been in such a rush to put a New Democratic stamp on the province, it’s as if they think their mandate is for 12 months, not 48.