Turns out a job doesn’t leave much time for blogging. And a 65-75 hour a week job makes it even tougher to fit in the time to write. Also, I find I’m writing all day, every day. So the urge to write more all night too isn’t that much of a
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calgaryliberal.com: The Alberta Liberals’ Biggest Gamble Yet
In life, and in politics, risk normally matches reward. And the Alberta Liberals are throwing a die so far, so long, that it overshadows any risk the party has ever taken on before. And the reward may in fact be massive if all goes well. Today Kent Hehr announced his run
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Comparing PIA’s “Alberta Could” Campaign to the Alberta Liberal’s 2012 Platform
Over the last couple of months Public Interest Alberta has been championing a change to Alberta’s tax code to bring it in line with the rest of Canada and fund desperately needed programs. Nicknamed ‘Alberta Could‘ the campaign calls for progressive taxation and investments in public programs. As someone who is
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Laurie Blakeman was right. (Again.)
Last year I wrote a blog post about the immense privacy breach by Education Minister Jeff Johnson — a concerned first broken to the province by Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman. And the Privacy Commissioner has confirmed that the mass email sent to 30,000+ teachers was a massive breach, confirming both
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: The West’s Alternative
The two byelections tonight in Alberta — one in southern Alberta and the other in northern Alberta — have made it clear just who is the alternative to the Conservatives in Alberta. That alternative is the Liberals. Through hope, hard work, and a good dose of grit, two local candidates with
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Why I’ve Chosen the Alberta Liberals
When I look to the legislature I see policies being put in place that run counter to how I see a modern, 21st century government would run the province. We are energy leaders but we’ve squandered that leadership role. As an entrepreneurial province that is so often focusing on solutions
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Five Years of Blogging.
I have had the pleasure of blogging for five years here at calgaryliberal.com. It has been a unique journey for this blogger. I have met new friends, won national blogging awards, ran in student politics (and won, twice!), been featured in print, interviewed on the radio, managed winning campaigns, and even
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: The Trials of Don Braid
Don Braid is looking for something. Anything. As a political pundit and editorial writer he is knee deep in politics. His proximity to Edmonton’s machinations of party politics and politics of personalities makes him expert on issues both inside and around the legislature. With every wart, boil, pimple, and scar,
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Let it die, Jim.
Jim Prentice has intimated to multiple individuals that he is considering a run for the leadership of Alberta’s 44-year-old governing party, the Conservatives. If you’ve read this blog you know very well that this blogger thinks that the Conservatives ought to pack it in and fold the party. Forty-five years is a
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: #Motion503: The Problem with Cusanelli
Allow me, for a moment, to rant. If you’ve been watching this blog, or twitter, or any major newspaper or television broadcast, you may have heard of Motion 503, a private members motion that was moved April 7th by Liberal Education Critic Kent Hehr. Between a petition on his party’s website gathering more than 1,300 signatures, a
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Gay Straight Alliances.
What if I told you there was a tool to use in our schools that could drop heterosexual male suicide rates by 50%? And that can reduce by more than half the homophobic discrimination and suicidal thoughts by LGBT youth versus schools without this tool? No child should live in fear and GSAs
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Time to fold the Progressive Conservatives of Alberta.
It’s over. When a party is on its third leader in three years, offends both conservative and liberal wings of its party, and its message offends Albertans so much that party fundraising dies off, it’s the end. After 43 years of running the province the Progressive Conservatives may just have
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Alberta Politics: Which of these leaders is best suited to deal with health care?
"Which of these leaders is best suited to deal with #abhealth?" #pcaa #ablib #abndp #wrp #ableg #abgov #abpoli pic.twitter.com/KvzRy61Eke — Vincent St Pierre (@vsp) March 20, 2014
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: The angst of a progressive.
Over the last week we have seen someone who had tried pull in progressives into a very un-progressive party be raked over the coals. For issues of arrogance and otherwise, Alison Redford has been the target of much acrimony, anger, and angst. This angst has been by both her party and
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: “Miss Me Yet?” #yyccc #yyc #bikeyyc
"Miss me yet?" #yyccc #yyc #ward4 cc: @yycGael pic.twitter.com/7sqHedQY4l — Vincent St Pierre (@vsp) March 12, 2014
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: No, the budget is not balanced.
I just had the pleasure of receiving an email from Allison Redford, premier of Alberta. In it she claimed that the budget was balanced for the first time in 6 years. Hold on a second. It isn’t. The budget is anything but balanced. The estimated consolidated budget deficit is $3.9
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Liberals triple support in Lethbridge: Liberals at 24%, NDP at 14%, Conservatives at 38%
Something is happening in Lethbridge. According to a group out of Lethbridge College the Liberals under Trudeau have jumped from 8.38% (2011) to 24% for the area of Lethbridge. Provincially, Raj Sherman’s Liberals have jumped from 14.7% (2012) to 18% in Lethbridge-East, a point ahead of the Wildrose and the
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Montreal 2014
Let’s talk about what’s really happening at Montreal 2014. It’s not about a race between Liberals jockeying for positions in the party. That’s essentially sewn up, except for membership chair (and, for those that care, both candidates have Albertan roots — one lives in Edmonton and the other has deep
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: 1 out of 100 Calgary Co-op members vote.
It’s election season for Calgary Co-op. For the month of February if you’re a member-owner of Calgary Co-op you can select three of their nine-member board. Most people don’t know they can help select representatives on that board. Out of some 440,000 members the Calgary Co-op cooperative only nets a little
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