Will Big Money Manipulate Alberta Politics?
The advent of American-style big, and sometimes secret donors, coming into Alberta's political culture through Political Action Committees (PAC) is not good. The situation isn't as bad as the American…
The advent of American-style big, and sometimes secret donors, coming into Alberta's political culture through Political Action Committees (PAC) is not good. The situation isn't as bad as the American…
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As part of my work with GO Productivity I have been all over Alberta conducting workshops on the impact and implications of disruptive and emerging technologies on small and mid-sized…
I wanted to write something in anticipation of the inevitable Left vs Right commentary that will be forthcoming on the Alberta Budget debates. However, I have not really read the…
I have been travelling the province facilitating workshops on the the impacts and implications of emerging technologies in our economy. These technologies are also called disruptive and exponential by some…
The Only Sure Thing in Alberta Politics is There is No Sure Thing. The on-going volatility of the Alberta political culture is not smoothing out with Stephen Mandel's recent Alberta…
Can We Build and Operate a Sustainable Pipeline? I am very much in favour of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline project. As an Albertan, and therefore the owner of the…
A New Day and a New Way? With the retirement of Greg Clark as leader, there are four phases to the leadership change process within Alberta Party. First was to…
What is the New Political Compass? The concept of a New Political Compass, one that moves beyond the linear spectrum of Left vs Right was introduced in 2008 by Dr.…
The Political Paradox that is Alberta The political paradox for Alberta is that, while we have had majority governments since 1971 we have had unstable governance since about 2004. In…
Alberta has the highest average weekly wages in Canada. The Oil and Gas employees make twice what average industrial wages are in other sectors. Here is a link to an…
So Mr. Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party has a chance to get a seat in the Alberta Legislature through a bye-election, with the retirement of one of…
I've been doing some reading about values and mindsets and applying some of these learnings to political organizations and trends. In the previous post I spoke about Arrested, Closed and…
I posed this question in a blog post last March when Mr. Kenney won the PC leadership. A lot has happened since then. The PCs and Wildrose have "united" under…
Abacus Data has a new on-line survey of 1534 Canadians randomly selected from a panel of 500,000 Canadians. They weighted the responses to "match census data to ensure that the…
In a surprise move the Alberta Party is in the hunt for a new leader. With recent consolidation of the uber-right in the UCP there are a lot of free-floating…