Kevin Taft made it official today, announcing that he will step down as leader of the Alberta grits by January at the latest. I suspect the media evaluations of his time as leader will be mixed – after all, he leaves the party with only two more seats than he inherited and many members are […]

‘Tis the season to shuffle, and Harper is set to do the dance tomorrow. According to the Globe, Emerson will stay in Foreign Affairs (take a bow, the 29% of you who called it) – if you can’t find a competent Conservative, might as well turn to a Liberal. It sounds like Christian Paradis, who […]

I smell a “rename the green shift” contest coming on… Helpful tip to tell “Green Shift” apart from “The Green Shift”: Green shift logo is a ladybug. The Green Shift logo is a smiling oil splotch.

As much as I hate plugging events on this blog, the Young Liberal Western Caucus (AKA “Camp Wanna Be Free”, pending a lawsuit from The Monkeys) is coming up July 11th-13th and, since it’s in Alberta and I’ll be missing it, I’ve been guilted into a post on it. So, if you’re youngish and Liberalish, […]

Naheed Nenshi of the Better Calgary Campaign had a Herald op-ed on Thursday about the future of the Alberta Liberal Party. In addition to floating a new name for ALP leadership, Naheed rejects the New Liberal and NDP merger options, and casts his vote for: The final group has the best solution: start all over, […]

The headlines range from “Dion Delivers” to “The Great Carbon Swindle“. In the Star, Chantal Hebert’s story runs a “Dion Election Platform Built on Carbon” headline – I hope not, because he could wind up paying a lot of taxes on it if that’s the case. And while Hebert is not quite ready to phone […]

CBC (and one presumes Elections Canada) seem to have most of the details in advance, but Dion will be making the official carbon tax announcement this morning. I’ll update this when he does but, for now, you can read the rumoured details here. UPDATE: The Green Shift website is now up and running, with the […]

Ed Stelmach’s ambitious agenda of change (that works for Albertans!) has finally produced some tangible results, with this week’s announcement that Alberta will be changing it’s license plate logo. So the wild rose is out, and will be replaced by oily the splotch. No, just kidding – but that would have been fun, wouldn’t it? […]

…is an example of top notch journalism. Put in the time, do the research, cut through the spin. Very refreshing.

Conceived in Tory focus group rooms, oily was born several weeks premature when Conservative strategists induced labour. Immediately, Oily became a child star and it wasn’t long before everyone, from Tory staffers to Jack Layton, were wearing oily merchandize and rattling off his catch phrase “Yoo-hoo: Hello! Over here!”. However a cloud (of smog?) hung […]