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Hung Out To Dry
There were a flurry of rumours floating around that Stelmach would drop the writ today, catching Taft in Toronto which would have been freaking brilliant. Instead, it appears that everything is on track for an election call after next Monday’s throne speech (which I imagine will feature a big ticket promise like high speed rail […]
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Monday News
1. Ed Stelmach is going to skip out on the climate change talks tomorrow at the first Minister’s meeting. This follows in the grand tradition of Ralph Klein playing hooky from first Minister’s health care talks to go to a casino in Hull. And this guy is trying to run on change? 2. Macleans profiles […]
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There’s something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear
A pair of pre-election polls were released this week, painting very different pictures of the upcoming Alberta election. If you only look at the horse race numbers, there’s not much to be cheerful about in Liberal land – the Strategic Counsel had the PCs at 58% of decided voters, while Leger had them at 49%. […]
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The Man With No Plan
I don’t know a lot about the “Albertans for Change” group but they certainly appear organized and well funded. Few Alberta opposition parties have had the dough to run commercials in recent elections but this group, composed of Alberta unions, is now airing three attack ads directed towards the Premier. With ominous music, black and […]
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Nomination Watch
A few updates on provincial nominations across Alberta, courtesy of the good people at Daveberta and Alberta Tory. The full updated list can be found here, but I present a few highlights since I don’t feel like blogging about Brian Mulroney today: -In the south side of Calgary, a trio of candidates were nominated this […]
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The 5 Rs: Royalties Raised. Report Recomendations Rejected.
Somewhat predictably, Stelmach has compromised with the oil industry on the royalty review. He’ll leave half a billion dollars on the table each year and delay the changes until 2009 but there will be no grandfathering of existing deals and the rates will be going up – something the government Stelmach was a Cabinet Minister […]
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Billion Dollar Boondoggle
Alberta’s Auditor General brought down a scathing report today that contained almost half a dozen scandals inside of it. If you closed your eyes and imagined yourself in federal politics, or any other province, you’d have to see this as a fatal blow…because this is right up there with the worst reports Sheila Fraser has […]
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THEY DID IT
Yesterday, the Progressive Conservatives broke the Social Credit government record, celebrating their 13,157th consecutive day in power. During that time, there have been 30 provincial government changes across Canada. There was no big victory speech last night, but it would probably go something like: I’d like to thank the Alberta Liberal Party, Lawrence Decore for […]
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Up For Grabs
Cameron Strategies has a new poll out and there’s a real Alberta stampede of voters away from Ed Stelmach. Still, the news isn’t all good for the Alberta Liberals, who can’t seem to capitalize on the “free agent voters” out there. The result is a remarkable 36% undecided rate – I don’t think I’ve ever […]
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Free Advice
After the Calgary Elbow by-election win, there are obviously a lot of heightened expectations for provincial Liberals. But, even though headlines like “Stelmach PCs plunge” are nice to see, the reality is the Liberals still have a long way to go to have any hope of forming government. So I thought I’d toss a few […]