Brian Brennan, at left, accepting a piece of paper from a copy boy. Your blogger remembers that haircut, and thinks he had one a lot like it himself. As for the copy boy? That’s Roman Cooney, now VP of Communications for Alberta Health Services. Below: Brennan today. It seems that
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephanie Larocque highlights the Cons’ gall in hanging onto federal reimbursements from their own ad scam even after having admitted their guilt: You don’t have to prove guilt when the charged plead guilty. And that is exactly what happened last week when the
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The jury’s out – or it should be, anyway – on the Calgary Herald’s latest pro-Redford poll
Premier Alison Redford of the Popular Conservatives is really popular with these guys, you can just tell!Wow! This just in! Alison Redford is so popular….How popular is she?Alberta’s new premier is so popular she’s more popular that her popular p…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Whatever became of the investigation into the PC Party’s purloined list?
The Tory membership list, purloined again! Alberta Conservative campaign strategists may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Premier Alison Redford; PC Party President Bill Smith.Now that the Alberta Progressive Conservatives have chosen a new leader…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Brian Brennan’s Leaving Dublin: From Ireland to the Calgary Herald strike and beyond
Leaving Dublin…A good memoir is no easy thing to write, and I can tell you that without ever having bothered to read one before.I mean, really, why would I read someone’s memoirs, for crying out loud, when there are stacks of mysteries, police proc…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Rust never sleeps … and neither do tar sands nuclear power boosters
Grande Prairie, or some other northwestern town in Alberta’s Peace Country, as it’s sure to be portrayed by the nuclear industry. Not exactly as illustrated, but then, these things never turn out to be exactly as illustrated, do they? GRANDE PRAIRIE,…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Lets Raj and Roll: I’m Excited
Last Saturday Raj Sherman was elected as Alberta Liberal Leader. On Monday he was brought in, officially, to the Alberta Liberal caucus. A quick media scan: [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] Curiously, on the Saturday night the reporters surroun…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Tory president rips release of party membership list to Environics, says leaker broke signed confidentiality agreement
Luuuuucy! You’ve got some ’splainin’ to do! PC Party president Bill Smith, left, is seeking an explanation of how the party’s confidential membership list fell into the hands of the gutter press and a pollster. Alberta political officials may n…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Who gave pollster Environics that Tory Party membership list, why, and with whose permission?
Your private information: Guarded by dedicated professionals with state-of-the-art equipment. Alberta political information security watchdogs may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Gary Mar.On the face of it, yesterday morning’s surprising Edmont…
Continue readingdjkelly.ca: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Every day has a story. But not every day has a story that changes so much in your life. For ten years I haven’t told my story because it’s not special or unique compared to anyone else’s, especially on that day. But I now realize that it’s an important story
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.
– The NDP follows up on the Tony Clement G8 scandal by pointing out the connection between his pork-barrelling and the 2008 federal election (which, let’s not forget, was called at the Cons’ behest):
The NDP is accus…
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Is WordFest muzzling a popular author to keep the Calgary Herald happy? Sure sounds like it
Brian Brennan, at left, on the picket line during the Calgary Herald lockout and strike in 1999. Behind him, in the centre of the photo, is Canadian author Margaret Atwood, a strong supporter of the unionized Herald journalists’ goals in the labour d…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Horse dies in Stampede chuckwagon race – no one does anything about it
A chuckwagon race at the Calgary Stampede sometime in the murky past. Cruel to horses then. Cruel to horses now.It was opening night yesterday at the Calgary Stampede: another horse died in a chuckwagon race.So what else is new? Last year six horses di…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Has Wildrose Alliance support peaked? If so, it’s all downhill from here!
A recent Wildrose Alliance meeting: Suddenly it’s not all sweetness and the scent of roses at meetings of Alberta’s right. (Wildrose Alliance supporters may not appear exactly as illustrated.) Below: Danielle Smith, Rob Anderson.It would be prematu…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Canada Hiding Its Carbon Emissions Growth Amidst Rapid Tar Sands Boom
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Each year, in advance of United Nations (U.N.) climate discussions, governments around the world submit an inventory of their carbon emissions. This year, Canada is taki…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: New Liberals: Alberta Liberals Convention recap
As I left the Alberta Liberal Party convention yesterday I was exhausted. Between doing a panel on social media, attending almost 24 hours of straight training and politics, and then being at the Bruce Payne suite until 3 am in the morning with a bunch…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The Perils of Postmedia: News staff out, managing editor in, at Edmonton Journal
“The Press” … back in the day when the Edmonton Journal was a great newspaper. Below: soon-to-be Journal managing editor Stephanie Coombs, former Journal publisher Linda Hughes, Colonist founder Amor de Cosmos.Just when it didn’t seem like anot…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Oil Spills: The beavers do it better.
Media scan: David Suzuki – Alberta’s biggest oil spill in 30 years is a call to action for Canadians BBC – Oil spill in Canada’s Alberta ‘biggest in 35 years’ Sun – Spill making kids sick Market Wire – Lubicon Lake Nati…
Continue readingdjkelly.ca: CBC Radio column: Newspapers and magazines and mastering the Internet
In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with host Donna McElligott I talk about how reports of the internet fueled death of newspapers and magazines are greatly exaggerated. I talk about Avenue Magazine and their editorial panel, the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal’s use of online chats, journalists joining Twitter to create one on one […]
Continue readingFive of Five: ‘In Memoriam’ for murdered Mexican anti-mining activist refused by Calgary Herald
According to a press release from the Council of Canadians:An ‘In Memoriam’ classified ad to be run on November 27th on behalf of the family of murdered anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca Roblero has been called “unsuitable” by the Calgary Herald,…
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