Before the Aloha–gate travel scandal upset the United Conservative Party’s applecart, Commissioner Steve Allan’s big report on “anti-Alberta energy campaigns” was supposed to be Alberta’s first major political story of 2021. But if the report is released as scheduled later this month – no certainty given its sputtering progress to
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Alberta Politics: Oppositional by nature, the UCP acts as if Rachel Notley’s NDP was still the government
Perhaps because he’s the only United Conservative Party MLA in Edmonton, Justice Minister Kaycee Madu seems to have become the Kenney Government’s main spokesperson responsible for yelling at the NDP. Whether Mr. Madu writes his own social media material or has an aide to perform that function for him, his
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Don’t laugh or scream, but Jason Kenney is the Hillary Clinton of Alberta politics
PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton, grim faced, gives her concession speech on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Below: Jason Kenney, who, it is predicted here, will in future be seen as the Hillary Clinton of Alberta; Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy-Glans, the two women who dropped out of the Progressive Conservative Party’s leadership
Continue readingAlberta Politics: More Bernard-trutherism: An update on Alberta’s (now ex) Roughneck
PHOTOS: Bernard the (now-ex) Roughneck enjoys some of the acclaim that goes with his newfound prominence here in Wild Rose Country. Photo grabbed from Facebook. Below: Neal Hancock as Bernard during his Parliamentary Press conference two months ago. Below that: A screenshot of Interim Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose at her
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Two More Things
I hadn’t fully appreciated, until the U.S. election results came in, how much we have in common with the ovine species: H/t Carsten I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: George Carlin left us far too early: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Woman Absolutely Disgusts Me
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: News From Dystopia
We interrupt this program to bring you important news. But please remember, as Johnny Carson used to say, “I merely report these things, folks. I don’t make them up.The Colorado Springs fire marshal gave a measured response after being attacked by GOP …
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: The U.S. Presidential Election: A Drowning Man Will Clutch at a Dragon
Well, it’s done. The Republican and Democratic Parties have nominated their candidates to become President of the United States of America, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Really? These are the choices? The sociopath who can do the least harm? In some ways, they both appeal to the same constituency, the super
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: The U.S. Presidential Election: A Drowning Man Will Clutch at a Dragon
Well, it’s done. The Republican and Democratic Parties have nominated their candidates to become President of the United States of America, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Really? These are the choices? The sociopath who can do the least …
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: The U.S. Presidential Election: A Drowning Man Will Clutch at a Dragon
Well, it’s done. The Republican and Democratic Parties have nominated their candidates to become President of the United States of America, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Really? These are the choices? The sociopath who can do the least …
Continue readingAlberta Politics: NDP environment minister, premier blamed for withdrawal of Senator Lindsey Graham from presidential race
PHOTOS: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham dropped out of the race to become the Republican Party’s presidential candidate this morning. Well-informed sources point to Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and the rest of Alberta’s NDP governmen…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: But Would They Be So Enthusiastic
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Continue readingAlberta Diary: Message to Canada’s media: OK guys, you can stop campaigning for that Romney guy now …
Romney Defeats Obama! U.S. President Barack Obama – perhaps not exactly as illustrated – holds up a copy of the Toronto Globe and Mail after his election victory last night. Or something like that. Maybe they just missed it that we don’t get a vote. Most Canadians don’t get to vote, that is, in the …
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: WATCH: The Complete Unedited Secret Mitt Romney Fundraising Video
Here it is, the complete unedited secret video that captured Mitt Romney dissing “47 percent of Americans—those who back President Obama“, and dismissing the possibility of a Palestinian state, etc. Romney, the Republican candidate for the November U.S. presidential election, was addressing donors at a May 17 fundraiser, held at the
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