Alberta Diary: Count on it: Alberta’s doctors got more than the government’s press release indicates

Dr. Michael Giuffre jots down the Alberta Medical Association’s wish list before yesterday’s agreement with the provincial government. Actual AMA negotiators may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne, Advanced Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. It will take a while to sort out what really happened in

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The Happy Wanderer: Justin Trudeau Wins

104,552 votes, yes just over 80% of the people who registered for the Liberal party of Canada leadership election ended up voting. A statement that was said quite often that night was that in this election more votes were cast than in any other leadership election. This is well…… true if we are talking about federal political parties.

In 2003 the Conservative leadership election
97,397 votes were cast
In 2012 the NDP leadership election
65,108 votes were cast

Although if we include provincial leadership elections the Liberal leadership election just held yesterday would only place second. The party that has obtained the most votes when it comes to electing a leader in Canada goes to the PQ (Parti Quebecois) in 2005. Yes in 2005 105,259 members of PQ voted to elect André Boisclair as leader of the PQ in Quebec.

Justin Trudeau first test as leader will be coming in the following month. That test will be the By-election in Labrador (which the Liberals are looking very likely as the winners). Justin Trudeau will most likely as all new leaders start to spike in the polls the important thing to watch here is how high will Justin Trudeau go. If Justin Trudeau ties with Harper or will Justin Trudeau lead and if so how much. All this is very important, because from the spike we can usually expect the true solid support to be anywhere 5-10% below.

What will also be interesting to watch is when will the new Conservative attack ads come, but right now it’s the honeymoon. The Liberals are trying now to sell the new leader bit as much as they can to fund raise as much as possible, and the high poll numbers and media will help Liberal fortune’s in the short run. The real show begins in the Fall session of next year, where Harper will have to start directing his attacks at either Mulcair or Trudeau.

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CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: NDP: Harper Created Worst Deficit in Canadian History (VIDEO)

Apparently, the Official Opposition will not allow Stephen Harper‘s appetite for character-assassinating attack ads and propaganda to go unchallenged. The NDP has responded to the Conservatives’ recent attack ad targeting its leader, Thomas Mulcair. The ad, dubbed “Stephen Harper’s Solutions,” focuses on the prime minister’s economic record. It lambasts the Conservative

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Trashy's World: Thomas Mulcair…

… wants to give you Dutch disease. A disease invented by the Dutch to attack Canada’s economy. Holland. Home to legalised drugs, windmills and Hollandaise sauce. Thomas Mulcair wants to brings them here. Drugs that will ruin your children. Windmills that will kill jobs. Hollandaise sauce that will make Canadians

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Trashy's World: Thomas Mulcair’s NDP…

…has weird ideas. Dangerous and weird ideas. He experiments with ideas. Ideas that would kill Canadian jobs. Jobs like these: Ideas are a gateway to job-killing drugs. The kind that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is keeping away from your children. Thomas Mulcair’s NDP want to drug your kids with dangerous

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Trashy's World: Thomas Mulcair?

He hates hockey… he really does. See this hockey player? Thomas Mulcair hates hockey. He would ban our children from playing hockey. THIS CHILD WOULD NEVER REPRESENT HIS COUNTRY AT THE OLYMPICS! Thomas Mulcair hates hockey, children and his country. Only a strong Conservative majority government can stop him. (7)

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