Important note: The following blog is intended only for people who usually vote Liberal, but who are thinking of switching their vote to either the PCs (to stop the Wildrose) or to the Wildrose (to defeat the PCs). Unwavering PC supporters, bedrock Wildrose supporters and compulsive NDP backers, please leave the virtual room. This blog […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Final thoughts on the Liberal leadership race: Yesterday, I pondered going to the U of A to attend the coronation announcement for the new leader of the Alberta Liberal Party. I didn’t go because I didn’t want to wander around looking for a parking spot, then pay through the nose for it, and attend an […]
I’m not big on telling people what to do, particularly when it comes to whom to vote for in a leadership race. I’m happy to offer opinions (you might have noticed) but I’m not going to tell you who to vote for. But I will make one exception when it comes to ALP leadership candidate […]
On Wednesday night, I went outside of my comfort zone (my house) to attend the Alberta Liberal Party all-candidates leadership forum at Grant MacEwan downtown. As a dues-paying member of the ALP (not just one of fair weather ‘supporters’ the party has signed up for the purposes of boosting interest in the leadership race), I […]
On this lazy Saturday morn (as opposed to my lazy Monday morn, my lazy Tuesday morn, etc.) a couple of mini-comments on provincial and federal politics. First, the NDP honeymoon with the media appears to be ending. After the revelation by the Globe and Mail that interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel was once a member […]
Raj Sherman is not crazy. OK, maybe anybody who wants to lead the Alberta Liberals has to be just a little bit crazy, but I’m talking about real, certifiable, lock-‘em-up loony. Raj Sherman is not a candidate for the rubber room, despite what you might have heard if you’ve been around Alberta politics for any […]
For a guy who really hated being under the dome, I have developed a strange fascination with what’s going on in there. Take Monday, for example. These guys are supposed to be discussing important matters of government business, a.k.a. your business. But Monday’s afternoon session, following the marathon of last Wednesday (it was never Thursday […]
Well, I suppose congratulations are in order to the opposition parties for their marathon, perhaps record-setting filibuster in the Legislature on Wednesday. I was lucky — or unlucky, I’m still not sure which — to have participated in two of those sessions while I was MLA. One of them was on housing, and the Liberals’ […]
