Vote for Alberta’s Election Hashtag!
The time has come, Nation. Use the Comments area of this post to make your arguments, and try to convince your fellow Web Denizens of the merits of your preferred…
Enlightened Savage
Choosing an Election Hashtag
Nation, the Twitter is here to stay. Whenever I’m feeling particularly optimistic about the world, or about this species we call humanity, I know I can log on to Twitter…
Baby Steps
One of my earliest political memories is the talk around our dining room table that surrounded the Senate. Like many Albertans, my father was (and is) a strong proponent of…
Alberta Budget 2012
BOOM goes the dynamite! Analysis later. – E.S.
The Saga of Calgary-West… No, the OTHER One…
Nation, there are a few areas of the city where small-c conservative politics are a messy, messy business. The reasons for this are unclear… it certainly doesn’t seem to be…
No Regrets
Hi there, Nation. 2 weeks have now passed since the nomination meeting for the Alberta PC’s in Calgary-Fish Creek. As most of you are no doubt aware, I was unsuccessful…
Super Saturday Nomination Results
Nation, with Daveberta away from his blog (and its comprehensive coverage of the nomination races taking place across the province) for the next week, someone has to step up and…
JoeyO on… being a Progressive
(as posted at JoeyO.ca) Webster’s would define a progressive as “one who looks forward”. I’ve decided that, in my own efforts to define what a progressive IS, I’m going to…
JoeyO on… Engaging With The Public
(as posted at JoeyO.ca) I’ve wanted to be a Member of the Legislative Assembly since I was 17 years old. The problem was always that, even as a 17 year-old,…
JoeyO on… Education
(as posted at JoeyO.ca) There’s talk, yet again, about the lack of schools (at least in appropriate locations) in the province of Alberta. The Minister of Education has publicly pondered…
JoeyO on… Hard Spending Decisions
(As posted at JoeyO.ca) On June 24th, 2010, the provincial government released a fiscal update. The long and short of it was, “the 2010 budget said the deficit would be…
Fish Creek Thinks Big on Health
(originally posted on JoeyO.ca) One of the issues that comes up most frequently at the doors and on the phones as we work through this process is the topic of…
Fish Creek Thinks Big on Democratic Reform
(originally posted on JoeyO.ca) One of the hardest deficits to eliminate is the democratic deficit. People feel disconnected from their representatives – and why shouldn’t they? Premier Klein, after his…
Leadership in Calgary-Fish Creek
On Saturday, January 14th, my team of dedicated volunteers (whom have dubbed themselves the “O-Team”) and I spent the daylight hours knocking on every door we could find, blanketing 2…
None For The Road
Nation, it’s been awhile. I’ve been pretty busy – it turns out that running for a nomination is every bit as exhausting as I’d imagined. And then multiplied by 10…
Fixing Elections (at least, the dates thereof)
Hope everyone’s had a good week. Mine was pretty uneventful. Except for that whole “announcing my intention to run for office and receiving hundreds of messages of support” thing. I…
Announcement
This was never part of the plan.When I started blogging – exactly 5 years ago, as oftomorrow – the idea was to help my fellow citizens understand what was going…
Be Yours To Hold It High
Remembrance.Simple - yet, for some, oh so hard.It's more than a poppy. It's more than a day off of work, or school.Everything that we have - EVERYTHING - we owe…
We Get It
Sorry for the relative silence of late, Nation - those of you following me on Twitter will have seen a lot of activity, but I haven't made it back to…
Cabinet Calls
Nation, Premier Alison Redford told her caucus late last week that the new cabinet would be notified on Tuesday of this week, the day before being sworn in. Her instruction…