Things are certainly different on the pipeline front now that Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party are in power in Alberta! Yesterday, the airwaves were full of reports Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage had announced an advertising campaign urging Parliamentarians to say “Yes to TMX.” (We’ll get back to
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Alberta Politics: The realpolitik of real politics: attack ads work, and sometimes they’re necessary
One of the enduring myths of our era is that Albertans (or Canadians, or whomever) don’t like negative political advertising, and therefore that political attack ads won’t work here. Now that Alberta’s New Democratic Party has published a website attacking Opposition Leader Jason Kenney’s record as a federal Conservative MP,
Continue readingAlberta Diary: On those Wildrose attack ads: they can hardly say Jim Prentice has ‘no plan’
The harshest of the three Wildrose Attack ads. Just let Youtube play, and you can see the Wildrose Party’s other two current attack ads plus its single positive spot. Below: A screen shot from one of the spectacularly ineffective 2006 No Plan ads attacking then premier Ed Stelmach. The full
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: At last! #nlpoli
Without a doubt, this is the most interesting, entertaining and revealing thing to come out of the Conservative leadership campaign. This could probably use a bit of writing and editing to tighten it up, but fundamentally, it’s the kind of thing that distinguishes John Ottenheimer in a positive way in
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: Campaign Lessons Learned: What Would Don Draper Do?
A municipal campaign is perhaps the purest form of politics there is. There is no Party, no political machine at your back – just you and the voters. I didn’t get the whole ‘campaign’ thing before. Not really. Not even after having been fairly deeply involved in one during the
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: Campaign Lessons Learned: What Would Don Draper Do?
A municipal campaign is perhaps the purest form of politics there is. There is no Party, no political machine at your back – just you and the voters.I didn’t get the whole ‘campaign’ thing before. Not really. Not even after having been fairly deeply in…
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: Campaign Lessons Learned: What Would Don Draper Do?
A municipal campaign is perhaps the purest form of politics there is. There is no Party, no political machine at your back – just you and the voters. I didn’t get the whole ‘campaign’ thing before. Not really. Not even after having been fairly deeply involved in one during the
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