Municipal, provincial, federal, and American political links on this Labour Day Monday.

Municipal: The Alnoor Kassam campaign will be running the first batch of radio ads this week, on traffic. They’re kind of cute, so feel free to give them a listen here.

Provincial: Apparently Ed Stelmach is getting the always unpleasant Mr. Dithers label, according to the Globe. As much as I’m not a fan of Stelmach, I’ve actually never heard him called Mr. Dithers. I’ve heard “Unsteady Eddie”, “Mr. Ed”, “Special Ed”, “Harry Strom Jr.” and about 50 other insults, but never Dithers. The article also has this inspirational quote:

“Will there be people without homes? Yes. Will there be some sick people that we can’t save, despite all the medical technology that we have? Yes, there will be. But people are continuing to move here because where else are they going to go in Canada?”

I think we may have a new slogan to replace wild rose province. “Alberta: Where else are you gonna go?“

Federal: The Tories continue to try and neutralize the Afghanistan issue.

US: Lots of Republicans seem to get themselves into sex scandals. And, for whatever reason, a large percentage of them seem to be gay sex scandals.