So, what do you think of the new PC party slogan, ‘New Conservatives’? Pretty catchy, eh? You can take that into an election. What do you mean, you’ve never heard of ‘New Conservatives’? Surely, it is in common use, since the Edmonton Journal’s lead editorial in Wednesday’s paper used the phrase. In case you’re unfamiliar […]
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Back in September, when the city first proposed this anti-smoking bylaw, I weighed in with this comment. Now that the bylaw is coming to council, I reiterate my concerns: in short, this is nuts. Here’s why… The city moved a step closer to banning smoking in playgrounds and parks Monday, as a new bylaw is […]
Well, here we are at the end of another arbitrary span of 365 days that we call a year. And what a year it was! Things happened! Famous people died! Future famous people were born (how come nobody talks about that?)! Movies and TV shows were produced, some of them good, and some of them […]
So, what does it take to get fired by Stephen Harper? Would lying to the House of Commons be enough? Used to be that if an MP outright lied to the commons, that would be the end of his or her career. Not so in Harperland. If you’re in Harper’s good books, lying to the […]
Let’s see now, what’s next on the Conservative agenda? Shut down the wheat board, despite the protests of farmers? Check. Enact a tough-on-crime agenda that throws more and more people in jail, despite the fact that every expert in the world tells you what you’re doing is wrong? Check. Tack the word ‘royal’ to as […]
Does the Edmonton Journal have an anti-Alberta Liberal party bias? I’ll answer my own question: yes, it does. For a number of years, I’ve noticed what short shrift Alberta Liberals get from Journal reporters and editors. When I was an MLA, there were countless times when the Journal didn’t bother to talk to Liberal MLAs […]
When Alison Redford was chosen as the next (and, please God, last) Progressive Conservative premier of Alberta, my heart sank a bit. It seemed that the collective wisdom of the party had done the right thing and elected a bright, exciting, more centrist leader. I say my heart sank because the Tories, under any leader […]
The Centre of the Universe has been convulsed for days now over the great Rob Ford Doesn’t Have 22 Minutes brouhaha. It’s so insipid, with so much egg on so many faces, it deserves comment, even this far from the Centre of the Universe. First, some background. Rob Ford is the mayor of Toronto who […]
Alison Redford is enjoying an extended honeymoon with the media, still swooning over the fact a supposedly progressive female has made it to the province’s top job. But Redford’s short time as premier — what has it been now, about a month? — has been riddled with snafus, foul-ups and flip flops. In her first […]
Alison Redford has been officially the premier of Alberta for, what now, 24 hours and change? And already, she is lacking in integrity and anti-democratic. Well, I’ll say this for the new premier — she works fast. The lacking in integrity/anti-democratic charges come from the Wildrose, who didn’t even give Redford the benefit of a […]
