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Susan on the Soapbox: The Wildrose Vision (such as it is)
Brian Jean, leader of the Wildrose party, has a vision for uniting Alberta’s conservatives. It’s based on “the best elements” of Peter Lougheed and Ralph Klein’s legacies and rejects the “liberal...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: It’s time for a national postal bank in both Canada and the...
PHOTOS: The little Post Office in downtown St. Albert, where your blogger lives, which Canada Post is anxious to close as soon as possible. Below: The U.S. Post Office in Fallon, Montana, the Canadian...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: What new laws did Alberta’s NDP government...
The Spring session of the Alberta Legislature ended yesterday after forty-days of debate. The evacuation of more than 88,000 Albertans sparked by the wildfires in Fort McMurray dominated the attention...
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Susan on the Soapbox: Rachel Notley and the Wonder Women
Anyone who thinks women are too emotional and unpredictable for a life in politics hasn’t met Rachel Notley and the Wonder Women. Ms Soapbox had the pleasure of meeting some of the Wonder Women this...
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Susan on the Soapbox: Brian Jean Makes a Joke
Two things happened this week that reflect very poorly on the judgment of Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean and his supporters. The first was The Joke. The second was his apology for The Joke. Let’s...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Stephanie McLean wants more women to run in...
Alberta’s Minister for the Status of Women Stephanie McLean is heading on a four-city tour to convince more women to run for elected office in next year’s municipal elections. The tour will feature...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Politics This Week: Affordable...
“Future Ready” with full stomachs and affordable daycare http://daveberta.ca/wp-admin/post-new.phpThe Alberta NDP government’s awkwardly branded “Future Ready” campaign includes some pretty good policy...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta’s first woman premier calls for more than talk...
PHOTOS: Former Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford smiles sadly as she leaves Government House in Edmonton on March 13, 2015, the day her Progressive Conservative caucus made the first...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Election 2019: candidate nomination...
Photo: Alberta political party nomination candidates: Mike Walsh, Stephanie McLean, Leela Aheer and Craig Coolahan. Here is the latest update to the list of candidates running for political party...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Son of Conservative MP Earl Dreeshen running...
Photo: Jason Kenney (centre) and Devin Dreeshen (right). (Photo source: Twitter) Facing charges of sexual assault and sexual interference, United Conservative Party MLA Don MacIntyre resigned from his...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: CLAC’s big role in the Trans Mountain expansion: Another...
If Canadians are going to have to pay the $10 to $15-billion cost of expanding the Trans Mountain Pipeline, it’s important they aren’t bound by
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Candidate Nomination Update: NDPer...
The big nomination news since my last update was the announcement by Stephanie McLean that she was withdrawing from the New Democratic Party nomination contest in Calgary-Varsity.
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Saskatchewan Catholic school funding case likely to drag on...
You’d think the province of Saskatchewan would be almost out of time to figure out how to deal with a judge’s ruling last year that
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Calgary MLA Brian Malkinson joins NDP cabinet as Alberta...
Alberta Premier Notley runs a pretty tight ship when it comes to her cabinet. So, as expected, there wasn’t much shuffling in the cabinet shuffle
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: It’s not quite Wayne’s World and it’s not...
Photo: UCP MLA Jason Nixon (left) and UCP MLA Ric McIver (right) as the host of The McIver Report. I was surprised to discover this
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Candidate Nomination Update: Pitt...
Photo: Calgary-West MLA Mike Ellis and Airdrie MLA Angela Pitt were greeting party members outside the nomination voting station in the Town and Country Centre
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta NDP get their first contested...
Photo: Julia Hayter, Joseph Schow, Kara Levis, and Marg McCuaig-Boyd The New Democratic Party has its first contested nomination race of this election season, and
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Anne McGrath jumps into NDP nomination in...
New Democratic Party stalwart Anne McGrath announced on social media today that she plans to seek her party’s nomination to run in Alberta’s next provincial
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Rick Strankman ousted by Nate Horner in...
Photo: Rick Strankman and Jason Kenney (source: Facebook) Rick Strankman is the first incumbent MLA to lose his party’s nomination in this election cycle as
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Brief late-evening message from premier signals departure...
If there’s an Alberta version of what used to be known as a “Kremlinologist,” they’ll be puzzling over yesterday evening’s social media announcement by Premier
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