daveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Edmonton Election Results – A big Iveson...
Photo: Don Iveson celebrates his re-election victory with his family (photo: Twitter) As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes – 72 percent of the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Wildrose-style insurgency smacked down in St. Albert as...
PHOTOS: St. Albert Mayor-elect Cathy Heron with the author of this blog post last night at her victory celebration. Below: Newly elected councillors Natalie Joly, Ken MacKay, Ray Watkins, Jacqui...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Sometimes It Doesn’t Go Their Way
Upon the re-election of Naheed Nenshi, the neoliberals have a message for Canadians who haven’t gotten with the program: Not everyone was happy about Naheed Nenshi being re-elected to a third term as...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: In a pragmatic move, Premier Rachel Notley appoints former...
PHOTOS: Newly appointed NDP Infrastructure Minister Sandra Jansen speaks during yesterday’s swearing-in ceremony at Government House in Edmonton. With her are new Parliamentary Secretaries Jessica...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Drew Brown discusses how the Libs’ claim to represent – or even understand – the interests of Canada’s middle class is disappearing. And Steven Chase...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Right-wing propaganda instantly pivots to explain away...
PHOTOS: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who overcame a full-blown attack by all the usual suspects on the right in Monday’s Alberta-wide municipal elections, addressing the biennial convention of the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Calgary polling fiasco leaves Postmedia, pollster with egg...
PHOTOS: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi in the marbled hallways of the Alberta Legislature. He was reelected to his third term on Oct. 16. Below: Mainstreet Research pollster Quito Maggi (Photo: Mainstreet...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Will the Alberta Together takeover turn the...
Photo: Alberta Party leader Greg Clark on the campaign trail in Calgary-Elbow in 2014. Source: Twitter. In the latest shakeup in Alberta politics, Greg Clark announced last Friday that he would resign...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Counting up the Alberta Party’s leadership candidates, real...
PHOTOS: Former Morinville mayor Lisa Holmes. Below: Doug Griffiths, Thomas Lukaszuk, Stephen Khan and Chima Nkemdirim. These photos were chosen completely arbitrarily, mainly because they came from the...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Week 1 Update from the Calgary-Lougheed...
Photo: Former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed. The Calgary-Lougheed electoral district is named after Lougheed. It has been one week since the Calgary-Lougheed by-election was called. The by-election is...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Public opinion research standards body to announce details...
PHOTOS: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, apparently as puzzled by the results of some polls last fall as many other Calgarians were. Below: Marketing Research and Intelligence Association CEO Dr. Kara...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: So sorry to see you go so soon, Manning Centre … here’s...
Shed a tear for the Calgary-based Manning Centre, which Postmedia’s Cowtown website of record sadly reported yesterday is “stepping back from its advocacy work.” Since
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The poll puts Jason Kenney’s UCP in slam-dunk range over...
Yesterday, United Conservative Party MLAs were Tweeting around a graphic from a new poll that showed their party with a wide lead over the New
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Report on Calgary civic election polling failures sharply...
A report by three high-profile academics with expertise in public opinion research who were commissioned to look into polling failures that marred the 2017 Calgary
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Calgary’s Olympic bid is dead, but don’t completely rule...
Moments after 10 p.m. last night, the few Albertans nervously paying attention outside Calgary received word voters in Cowtown had clearly said no to the
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Brexit Redux: Looking back at Jason Kenney’s strange...
Back in June 2016, hours after Britons had narrowly voted to leave the European Union, a lot of Albertans scratched their heads at Jason Kenney’s
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The Senatorial Selection Act explained – a farcical, faux...
Never mind the details for a moment, this is all you really need to know about Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s constitutionally meaningless Senate elections law, introduced as Bill 13 in the provincial...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Irony is dead but doublethink thrives as Calgary opts to...
Really, what can one say about the deal the City of Calgary struck with the Flames professional hockey club yesterday for the former Cowtown’s taxpayers to subsidize half the cost of a new arena for...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: A Letter to My Councillor About the Flames Deal
Dear Councillor Woolley, I am a constituent living in your riding. Thank you for bringing forward a motion to extend the time available for public consultation on the proposed deal with the Calgary...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Calgary Flames Arena–Have We Got A Deal For You!!!
To paraphrase Jane Jacobs, the majority of Calgary City Council regard Calgarians as “empty-headed young ladies whose main duties were to see that their nails were clean, their curves properly...
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