{"id":2686,"date":"2010-06-25T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2010-06-25T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T13:25:00","slug":"this-week-in-alberta-eddiemandering-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2686","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Alberta &#8211; Eddiemandering the Map!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Boundaries Commission has issued its <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B3Nv6j71O4pfODAwNDg1MDktZTRkMS00MTEzLTgyMjktNTQ0OWIyYWMwYzQw&amp;hl=en\">final report<\/a> and, predictably enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/alc.whitematter.ca\/index.php\/alc\/content\/electoral_boundaries_commission_report_reflects_petty_gerrymandering\/\">accusations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildrosealliance.ca\/newscentre\/289-wildrose-alliance-caucus-questions-fairness-of-electoral-boundaries-report\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/alberta-panel-accused-of-drawing-tory-friendly-electoral-map\/article1617174\/\">Gerrymandering<\/a> have flown wildly.<\/p>\n<p>Given the wild unpredictability of Alberta politics right now, I have a hard time believing that we&#8217;re seeing riding boundaries drawn to help the PCs. Rather, the problem with the new map is the same as it has always been &#8211; Calgary and Edmonton get only half the seats, despite having two-thirds of the population (a ratio which will grow over the next decade).<\/p>\n<p>Daveberta offers <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.ca\/2010\/06\/final-report-of-the-electoral-boundaries-commission\/\">commentary on the new boundaries<\/a>, and provides the 2008 election results <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.ca\/2010\/06\/new-electoral-boundaries-transposed-with-2008-results\/\">transposed on the new maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Also in Alberta&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Guy Boutilier becomes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildrosealliance.ca\/newscentre\/291-wildrose-leader-welcomes-guy-boutilier-to-party\">fourth Wildrose MLA<\/a>. Which is great, but someone might want to ask Danielle Smith at some point how a party made up of disgruntled PCs is going to be any different <em>from the PCs<\/em>. Just saying.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/blogs\/electionnotebook\/default.aspx\">new poll <\/a>by Spotlight strategies shows Albertans are mostly happy and it gives vote numbers the PCs should be mostly happy about. Enlightened Savage provides some analysis <a href=\"http:\/\/enlightenedsavage.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/grains-of-salt.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-More good news for the PCs: Alberta&#8217;s deficit is down to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/business\/Alberta+deficit+slashed\/3196092\/story.html\">billion bucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Boundaries Commission has issued its final report and, predictably enough, accusations of Gerrymandering have flown wildly. Given the wild unpredictability of Alberta politics right now, I have a hard time believing that we&#8217;re seeing riding boundaries drawn to help the PCs. Rather, the problem with the new map is the same as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}