Alberta Votes Day 11: A Wild Wave Sweeps Across Alberta
Dear Wildrose Party candidates, It’s time to book a return ticket from Vegas: Wildrose pulling ahead of PCs in election campaign: poll Wildrose poised for majority in Alberta: poll New…
2012 Alberta Election
Alberta Votes Day 9: Ralphbucks Returns
On Sunday, the Wildrose Party released an April Fools press release, proposing to merge Alberta and Saskatchewan. On Monday, they took the silliness up a level: Wildrose promises cash rebates…
Alberta Votes Day 5: This time, when we say "It’s time", it really is time
A collection of random nuggets from the first week on the campaign trail… 1. The leader’s debate has been set for 6:30 mountain time on Thursday, April 12th. Unless of…
Alberta Votes Day 4: Danielle Smith comes out as the "anti-change" candidate
If you’ve been reading my Alberta political posts over the past few years, you’ve probably deduced that I’m a fan of Danielle Smith. Not in the sense that I’d vote…
Alberta Votes Day 3: Time to bring back Ed?
In retrospect, maybe it wasn’t such a good idea for Alison Redford to call the election after a month of wall-to-wall scandal and controversy. Two more polls have been released…
Alberta Votes
The writ has been dropped, and Albertans will go to the polls on April 23. The past few years have been wildly turbulent, with shocking municipal votes, the rise of…
Alberta Votes Day 2: Polls and Prostitutes
We were treated to a pair of Alberta election polls last night – both showing the PCs and Wildrose in a statistical tie. Given previous 2012 polls have shown Redford…
The First Look at Redford’s Playbook
That sound you hear is the unofficial starting gun on Alberta’s 2012 election, as the PCs launch their first round of negative ads, under the familiar “Danielle Smith: Not Worth…