Hope and Fear: 2 days until Alberta’s election
With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43-year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral…
May 2015
Sorry Rachel, math is too difficult for you girls
Your browser does not support this audio Alberta Conservative Leader Jim Prentice & NDP Leader Rachel Notley
Saturday Photo: To Ope Their Trunks The Tree Are Never Seen…
How then to they put on their robes of green? Those are the words of a song I learned in fourth grade. Can’t find where it comes from, but I…
May 2: slim pickin’s
Section A has only two stories that caught my attention. One was about the anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, the one theatre of war that was dominated by…
Iran is standing down—will the U.S. and Russia?
Iran has recently agreed, after intense negotiations, to take steps to ensure it cannot produce a nuclear weapon. It claimed it had no intention of doing so anyway, but has…
The Coalition Game
A revised version of this post has now been published at iPolitics. Recently Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared that he might be interested in a coalition with the…
The Coalition Game
A revised version of this post has now been published at iPolitics.Recently Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared that he might be interested in a coalition with the NDP…
The Coalition Game
Recently Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared that he might be interested in a coalition with the NDP but rejected the idea because of Tom Mulcair’s ‘old-style’ way of…
Rafe: Woodfibre LNG is bad business for BC
Except briefly, let’s avoid environmental questions about Woodfibre LNG for today and concentrate on fiscal matters. Even if Woodfibre LNG was an environmental bonus to Howe Sound and the surrounding…
UK Election: Labour leader’s nonsense about no cooperation with SNP
Sturgeon’s view of Miliband’s anti-cooperation nonsense Next week Britons go to the polls, and Labour leader Miliband has once more put his foot in his mouth with a statement that…
Research and Evidence
I wrote the other day that the study released by George Siemens and others on the history and current state of distance, blended, and online learning was a bad study.…
Zombie Confidence Fairy finally rears its head as the 2015 Campaign of Fear gets up steam in Alberta
A group of five prominent Edmonton businessmen with ties to the Prentice Progressive Conservative Party tried to talk some sense into us crazy Albertans yesterday about voting NDP during a…
Chrétien, Putin and Harper—opportunity lost?
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s recent chat with Vladimir Putin in Moscow presents an opportunity to our government. Since Mr. Harper has, unlike all the other G7 leaders, refused to…
Harpers and CPC Objection to Omar Khar Bail Release Just FAILED!!!
Harpers and CPC Objection to Omar Khadr’s Bail Release Just FAILED!!! The Harper Government and CPC/Government lawyers who oppose Omar Khadr bail release was based on one single objection, that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lynne Fernandez properly labels the Cons’ federal budget as the “inequality budget”. Andrew Jackson discusses how we’ve ended up in a new Gilded…
Toronto Globe & Mail Endorsement of ‘Jim’ Will Help Elect NDP’s Rachel Notley in Alberta
The smart grey suited thin lipped editorial guys at Toronto’s Globe and Mail have once again thought it over and surprise, surprise they are backing the PC ‘s Jim Prentice…
On relative popularity
Jim Prentice is warning Albertans that they should vote for him lest they be governed by somebody like Tom Mulcair. Jim Prentice’s approval rating in Alberta is 22%. Tom Mulcair’s…
Failures of imagination and arithmetic
Colby Cosh’s latest includes this explanation as to why he wants to write off the party which holds a strong lead in Alberta’s polls: The province-wide NDP numbers, whichever set…
Much That Smells Beneath
http://www.westernpest.com/ The Crown Prosecutor at the Duffy trial says that he wants to see the errant senator judged on the basis of “common sense.” It’s a strange argument, Michael Harris…
Harper’s Jihad
The closer we come to an election, the more strident and McCarthyesque the Harper regime is becoming over ‘radical Islam.’ There is, of course, the political opportunism of Bill C-51,…