What do Canada, Pulau, the US and the Ukraine have in common?
Four countries voted against a UN resolution to stamp out Nazism across the globe. Canada was one of them. Why?
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First casualty of outrage at Wildrose floor crossing? Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson says he will quit politics
Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson, understood to have been one of the key leaders in the controversial effort to get the majority of the Wildrose caucus to defect to the Progressive…
Lovely Sun and Jesse James
John Klein: 30 years ago yesterday, here’s what was on TV, and what the weather was like in Toronto. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: January 5, 1985 Lovely sun at…
Alberta’s Wildrose remnant has new role as ‘conscience of the right’? Come off it, guys!
Fallout from the march of the Mudville Nine from the Opposition Wildrose benches to the government’s Progressive Conservative caucus continues to drift across Alberta. So serious is the contamination in…
Saskatoon A Day At A Time
Here’s a clever video that took more than a year to complete by a young Saskatoon man. It reminds me somewhat of my shorter-lived face-a-day project modeled on Noah Kalina’s…
More In Canada Now Willing To Accept Dictatorship
Here’s Harper’s legacy, as he’s attempted to plunge our country into darkness: The group surveyed attitudes towards democracy and governance in interviews with 50,000 people in 28 countries. It found…
Explaining the revulsion: It’s not the policy differences, stupid! It’s the Wildrose corruption critique
Why are Albertans so angry about the defection of 11 Wildrose opposition members to the government’s benches? I mean, why are they really so furious? The reason — and it’s…
January 30 Years Ago
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: My grandmother I knew as “Nana” lived in Toronto when I was young. She’d moved back there from California, before I was born. She kept…
Poll says all is well in the Alberta garden as disappointed voters file sombrely back into PC ranks
Support for the Wildrose Party is plummeting as supporters angered by the defection of 11 MLAs to the governing PCs have turned on the five Wildrose MLAs who didn’t cross…
Disruptive Power
The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global…
New Solar in Ontario
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff…
Plumbing the rural press for hints of how the Mudville Nine were induced to join the Prentice PCs
Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Rod Fox sure didn’t sound very enthused about his recent switch from the Wildrose Party to the Progressive Conservative Party in the apologetic open letter he wrote to…
The mediocre measures of M. Mulcair.
If there was one sure sign of the desperation of Thomas Mulcair and his federal New Democrats, it is the promise to institute proportional voting in Canada’s elections. What we…
‘Fakes on a Plane’ problems set to return? Blame Dave Hancock for the Prentice Government’s next big problem
It may be 2015 now, but a 2014 problem continues to haunt the government of Premier Jim Prentice. I’m not talking about the Mudville Nine Wildrose defectors. Instead, you can…
The last political act of 2014: The Wizard of Ozberta reveals all without even blushing
What was really interesting and possibly unique about the final political act of 2014 here in Ozberta was that it didn’t take Dorothy, Toto and their three metaphorical friends to…
Guest post: Alberta’s NDP can make the Wildrose collapse work for them, but it’ll be hard work
Guest post by John Ashton An awful lot of New Democrats are asking if the Tory tomfoolery with Wildrose MLAs should cause the Alberta NDP faithful to be filled with…
Notice to my loyal readers: Those problems with the new site: we’re working on them …
Typical bloggers, waiting for their web hosting service to let them be free to post. Thanks to all of you who have asked if the new site at AlbertaPolitics.ca has…
Unpublished, Published 2014 Edition
A short list of some of the ‘unpublished’ articles that we hurriedly published before the end of 2014.
Right-wing Charities That Should be Audited
A handful of right-wing, highly political charities that should be audited by the CRA.
The Trillion Dollar Trick
Hundreds of billions are being pumped into the US economy and financial markets each quarter. If we stop it, what will happen?