Alberta Diary: As soon as the NDP picks a new leader today, the party’s focus...
Your blogger with Edmonton-Whitemud NDP candidate Dr. Bob Turner. Yeah, I support the NDP. Live with it! Below: Retiring NDP Leader Brian Mason, Health Minister Stephen Mandel, Alberta Liberal...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: What’s at stake in the four Oct. 27...
TweetWith less than two days left in Alberta’s mini-election, voters will head to the polls on the morning of October 27, 2014 to cast their ballots in by-elections being held in Calgary-Elbow,...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Iveson and Nenshi in strong position for...
TweetAs the collapse of the Wildrose Party and speculation about Alberta’s next provincial budget dominate political discussions, one of the most politically important discussions impacting governance...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Are Albertans afraid of changing their...
Four days before Election Day, Progressive Conservative Party leader Jim Prentice stood on a stage in front of hall of supporters who paid $500 per plate to attend the evening fundraiser in downtown...
View ArticleCalgary Grit: Alberta didn’t change – but its image will
The defeat of the PCs seemed unthinkable a few months ago. The notion they could lose to the NDP would have been laughable. But this is how politics in Alberta works. Every 30 or 40 years, a Chinook...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Notley’s NDP should ban corporate and union...
One of the main promises made by the NDP before their win in the May 2015 provincial election was a commitment to ban corporate and union donations in provincial politics. Current campaign finance laws...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Notley NDP waste no time implementing...
Banning corporate and union donations: Check. Restoring funding to health, education and human services: Check. Increasing corporate taxes: Check. Introducing a new climate change strategy: Coming...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: New Democrats to have real nomination battle in...
PHOTOS: Skilled polling technicians monitor the interactive voice response equipment the day before Canada Day. Actual Canadian pollsters may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: NDP...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Lawsuit and ASIRT investigation illuminate the Alberta Tory...
PHOTOS: Car 54 where are you? Somewhere in northeast Calgary, by the sound of it. Actual Calgary Police Service officers may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below, former Calgary Police Chief Rick...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Pressure builds for Alberta to ban corporate...
On June 22, 2015, Alberta’s new NDP Government passed Bill 1: An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, imposing a retroactive ban on corporate and union donations to provincial political parties starting...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Craig B. Chandler: He’s baaaack (in Ontario)! And he’s...
PHOTOS: A screen grab of Craig B. Chandler telling immigrants to Alberta to vote Conservative or get lost back in 2007. Below: NDP Toronto Centre candidate Linda McQuaig. Brace yourselves, Toronto!...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - The Equality Trust reminds us that economic inequality leads to harmful health consequences even for the lucky few at the top of the income scale. And Matt Bruenig...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Where are the ‘good Conservatives,’ prepared to speak...
PHOTOS: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tactics have sparked protests, but Conservatives who should know better have been astonishingly quiet. (CommonDreams.org photo.) Below: Former St. Albert MLA...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Trudeau Liberals crack Conservative...
The dust has yet to finally settle on tonight’s election night results but we know that the Liberal Party led by Justin Trudeau will form a majority government with more than 180 seats in the next...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: What about Bob? Hawkesworth swoops into top...
Former Calgary alderman Bob Hawkesworth has been appointed Executive Director of Premier Rachel Notley’s southern Alberta office at the McDougall Centre in Calgary. A press release sent out on Nov. 7...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Alberta loses a big voice with the passing...
Terribly sad news in Alberta politics today. CBC is reporting that 35-year old MLA Manmeet Bhullar has been killed in a car crash on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway while driving from Calgary to...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Sudden death of young PC star Manmeet Bhullar in road...
PHOTO: Progressive Conservative MLA Manmeet Bhullar, who was killed yesterday in a traffic accident on his way to Edmonton from Calgary (PC Party photo). The sudden death of Calgary-Greenway MLA...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The Annals of the Alberta Party: A mystery created, a...
PHOTOS: Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, the party’s sole MLA in the Alberta Legislature. Below: Then-Wildrose leader Danielle Smith during the campaign leading up to the October 2014 “mini-election”...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Acclaimed to party official’s job, social conservative...
PHOTOS: Craig Chandler – about the closest thing there is to ballot box poison in Alberta. (Photo from Mr. Chandler via the CBC.) Below: Progressive Conservative interim Leader Ric McIver. Craig...
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