Alberta Election 2015 – post-election & transition
Congratulations Ms. Notley! Premier-Designate Notley may be exhausted by an exciting and successful campaign. She gets no respite. It is noon on Election Day, plus 1, and Ms. Notley is
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Congratulations Ms. Notley! Premier-Designate Notley may be exhausted by an exciting and successful campaign. She gets no respite. It is noon on Election Day, plus 1, and Ms. Notley is
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Alberta is about to change, for good. In 16 hours the polls will be closed in Alberta. The election itself will be history. (The aftermath will undoubtedly be as interesting
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As the Alberta election campaign comes to a close, and as the P.C.s become frantic, we hear two new arguments being made. 1. Albertans are being told — stridently —
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Readers will know that I was a 15 year P.C. M.L.A. and a Cabinet Minister for 7 years in the early years of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government. In fact, I
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In the course of the current election campaign, the Alberta P.C. Party finds itself in dangerous – perhaps fatal – straits. It cannot focus on the quality of its team,
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One of the interesting realities of Alberta politics is that every time the people have changed their government they have opted for a party more progressive than the incumbents they
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The Spur Calgary Festival has just wrapped up with a panel discussion I wish I could have taken in. (Note to organizers: think livestreaming and/or Youtube.) Danielle Smith, former Wild
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The majority (9 M.L.A.s) of the Official Opposition in the Alberta Legislature have made the decision to abandon the Party of their election and join the government caucus (Progressive Conservative
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Separate school education has two fundamental characteristics. The first is presence and the second is permeation. 1. Presence As church attendance falls, there are fewer and fewer churches being built
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It is fascinating to be engaged in the current local elections campaign. I have never before seen so much focus on one issue – many a one, to be sure,
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