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A Rare Liberal Victory
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Redford in Dire Straits Over Money for Nothing Controversy
In 1993, the Alberta PCs were on the ropes, and many felt Lawrence Decore would end their 22 year reign in power. When the issue of MLA pensions bubbled to the surface, their newly elected leader Ralph Klein walked into caucus, laid down the law, and retroactively scrapped the gold-plated pension plan. He may not […]
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This Week in Alberta – The Wheels on the Bus
With an Alberta election call possible as soon as next week, the province is gearing up for the campaign. Of course, rather than talk of scandals or policies, most of the attention this week was on the Wildrose Party’s unfortunately designed campaign bus wrap. Which prompted this tongue and cheek response:
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Time for a Full Inquiry, for Dean’s Sake
Dean Del Mastro, March 1: “We learned that Joe Volpe paid over $25,000 to Prime Contact, a calling company with offices in North Dakota. These calls were made on behalf of the Liberal party. I see that they used this company quite a bit. It seems that they were robodialing quite a number of people […]
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Extra! Extra! No New Taxes!
With an election call expected within weeks, the Alberta PCs are blanketing the airwaves with advertising touting their pledge to not raise taxes. Well, let me rephrase that – the Alberta government is blanketing the airwaves with advertising touting their plan to not raise taxes: The Redford government is under attack from opposition members over […]
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Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything
On previous episodes of Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything, Dean didn’t trust the survey results in a Peterborough newspaper poll, so he commissioned his own robo-push poll, in an effort to “protect democracy”. Then, last week Dean argued the Liberals used a US call centre and the Tories never did, despite Evan Solomon presenting […]
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Damage Control
It remains to be seen just how involved the Conservative Party was in Robocon, but it certainly doesn’t help that they can’t keep their story straight. It was all Michael Sona, it was rogue third parties, it was the Liberals, the Tories had “absolutely, definitely” nothing to do with it…yet they’re reviewing the tapes. The […]
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The Six "S" of Scandal Stickiness
This time last year, the Tories found themselves engulfed in scandal – Carson, Contempt, In & Out, Oda… The opposition parties were licking their chops at the prospect of bringing the government down. We all know how that turned out. The scandals didn’t stick, and the result was a Tory majority. With the Nixonian references […]
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Self Inflicted Wounds
With the return of Parliament, today was the first chance for the opposition to put the Tories’ feet to the fire on Robocon. Instead, it was the Liberals who would up burning themselves with the admission that a Liberal staffer was behind Vickileaks. In scheme of things, the Vickileaks saga is fairly minor. It wasn’t […]
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Demand Better
Whenever the opposition tried to raise “the democracy thing” during last spring’s campaign, the electorate responded with a shrug. Contempt of parliament, the in-and-out scandal, Bev Oda’s “not” problem…meh. People got temporarily worked up over prorogation, but that was more because the government was seen to be taking a 3-month vacation, not because they’d disrespected […]