For weeks now, the provincial government has been warning us, in the most dire terms possible, that we’re in for a “tough budget” filled with “tough choices”, and a certain amount of “tough shit”. Maybe tough isn’t a strong enough word. How about ‘cruel, but fair’, to borrow a line from Monty Python? Whatever you […]
Tag Archives: Alison Redford
OK, PC party, listen up. I’ve been cheering for your demise ever since Peter Lougheed stepped down, so I really shouldn’t be giving you any advice. And please, don’t take this as any kind of endorsement. But seriously, people. You guys just do NOT know how to campaign. I mean, c’mon. You’ve got one of […]
It’s been a while since I last blogged, as I’m sure you’ve noticed (he said delusionally). Maybe it’s just the January blues, maybe it’s just that I haven’t found anything that really tickles my farcical fancy. Whatever the reason, I guess it’s time to get back on the ol’ blogging horse. And what better way […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wouldn’t you just love to be a fly on the wall in the office of new premier Alison Redford? I imagine a steady stream of supplicants parading into her office to offer congratulations. There will be plenty of “I knew you could do it” and “You’re just what this party needs now”, and the occasional […]
On Saturday night (or more accurately, Sunday morning), after it became apparent that Alison Redford was going to be our new premier, I went on Facebook to see if any of my ‘friends’ were registering any opinions. There was only one (most of my friends are in bed at that hour, and if not, they […]
As a Liberal party supporter, I am disappointed — and a little worried — by the results of the first round of balloting to replace Ed Stelmach as captain of the unsinkable Ship Tory. I was hoping Ted Morton would make a better showing — even winning. This has nothing to do with who I […]
