Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Grace Blakeley writes that class politics are making a sorely-needed return, raising the prospect that people might again start to make gains against...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Those elusive Liberals of Edmonton Strathcona: Where did...
Volunteers for NDP candidate Heather McPherson’s campaign in the federal Edmonton-Strathcona riding are asking themselves, where the heck are those mobs of Liberal voters one pollster claims to have...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Green Party candidate drops out in Edmonton Strathcona,...
Michael Kalmanovitch, the Green Party of Canada Candidate in the tight Edmonton-Strathcona race, told an all-candidates’ forum at the riding’s King’s University College yesterday that he is dropping...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – George Monbiot makes the case for popular sovereignty mechanisms to supplement systems of representative government which fail to reflect the will of the...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 40: Alberta Politics and Federal Election Q&A
We are back from our summer break with a special Question and Answer edition of the Daveberta Podcast. Dave dives deep into our mailbag to answer some of the great Alberta politics and federal election...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 43: The UCP’s pick-a-fight budget
David Climenhaga from AlbertaPolitics.ca joins Dave and Adam on this episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the cuts in Alberta’s provincial budget and the United Conservative Party’s growing list...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Preston Manning, the bad penny of Canadian politics, turns...
Preston Manning is the bad penny of Canadian politics. So no one should be surprised he’s turned up again! Much good rarely comes from Mr. Manning’s interventions in politics, which never seem to end,...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 48: An urban agenda in Alberta. Municipally...
More than half of Albertans live in Calgary and Edmonton, so why does it feel like the provincial government rarely takes big city issues seriously? Mack Male joins Dave Cournoyer on this episode of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The state of the art of Conservative victimhood in Alberta:...
Cue the violins! No one does victimhood like an Alberta Conservative contemplating the prospect of another term in Opposition overlooking the Ottawa River. Michelle Rempel Garner, the Blocker Queen of...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 53: COVID-19 provides cloud cover over...
Zain Velji, campaign strategist and Vice President Strategy at Northweather joins host Dave Cournoyer and producer Adam Rozenhart on this episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the how COVID-19 is...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Despite COVID-19, 15,000 people join Fight for Equity rally...
A mostly youthful throng estimated at more than 15,000 people braved the coronavirus pandemic yesterday evening to join the Fight for Equity rally against racism at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton....
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 65: The Best of Alberta Politics 2020
With the help of two special guests, Jessica Littlewood and Matt Solberg, we are thrilled to announce and discuss the results of the 2020 Best of Alberta Politics survey. Jessica Littlewood was the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: On a wing and a prayer, Alberta reluctantly adopts stricter...
Faced with rising infection rates and a frightening upswing in coronavirus variants, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reluctantly announced a return to somewhat stricter measures to control the spread of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Some last words as mayor from Calgary’s Naheed Nenshi on...
Almost from the day they took power in 2019, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has known how to get up the noses of Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government. It’s part of the man’s charm, although by...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Manitoba’s Stefanson to Alberta’s Smith: Drop dead!
When Manitoba Conservative Premier Heather Stefanson blew off Alberta Conservative Premier Danielle Smith’s call yesterday to ship Alberta oil through the Hudson Bay port of Churchill, Wild Rose...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 85: Naheed Nenshi on Calgary in Alberta’s 2023...
Former Calgary mayor shares his thoughts on Danielle Smith, Rachel Notley and the city he calls home ahead of Alberta’s provincial election. Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi joins the Daveberta...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: No predictions today, but the stakes are high, maybe...
One of the dirty little secrets of Canadian politics at the end of the beginning of the 21st Century is that a lot of political professionals have come to recognize the awesome power of fear. Former...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: ‘Nenshimania’ grips social media, but would choosing...
Before we get carried away by the current outbreak of Nenshimania, let’s just remember that it wasn’t the Alberta Party or the Alberta Liberals that toppled this province’s 44-year Progressive...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Why Sarah Hoffman is running for the Alberta NDP...
The former health minister shares her plans for health, climate, and housing NDP MLA Sarah Hoffman joins the Daveberta Podcast to talk about why she is running for the Alberta NDP leadership and her...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: David Parker, the bad boy of Alberta conservatism,...
After reflecting on Premier Danielle Smith’s recent words of chastisement, the bad boy of Alberta conservatism, David Parker, said in a tweet yesterday evening that he’s repented and “will not use...
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