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RottenTories.ca
Get all the reviews from the Alberta campaign here, as Ed Stelmach’s bucket list of promises continues over the next two weeks!
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Your Dalton Day Link Round-Up
-I thought the same thing when I watched QP yesterday. I’m not sure Jean Lapierre is necessarily the best person to be revealing the inner thoughts of Jean Chretien’s mind. -The Tories have unleashed a new line of attack on Dion, claiming that a Liberal government would plunge the country back into deficit. I think […]
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Vote Early…
Since I’m not able to help on the ground this campaign, here’s my little bit of virtual door knocking. For any members of the Albertan nation off at school or out of the province on March 3rd, you can still vote by mail in ballot. And, heck, unlike the poor suckers in Alberta, you don’t […]
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Democracy Derailed
The returning officer scandal continues to grow, with half Alberta’s returning officers now revealed to have known ties to the PCs. In Stelmach’s home riding, the job went to a man who made a large donation to his leadership campaign. In Calgary Currie, it went to a man who ran unsuccessfully for the PC nomination […]
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Great Moments in Spin
Alberta spent $3.8 million on its Smithsonian party in Washington in 2006, an event hailed as a huge success by the government and slammed as a waste of taxpayers’ money by the opposition. [A spokeswoman] said surveys conducted by the Smithsonian show that before the festival 77 per cent of people polled had very little […]
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"It’s that dream, that possibility, that should be more achievable here than anywhere else"
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I’m going to give Ed a break. Truth be told, I think the guy has probably already defeated himself anyways – the real question is whether Albertans will be able to bring themselves to vote in the Alberta Liberals. So, in that spirit, today’s post will stress ALP positives, […]
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Well, maybe not a strategic "genius"…but…
Say what you will about Stephen Harper (and I’ve said a lot), but he’s nobody’s fool. Two small, but very good, examples of smart messaging: 1. Make it look like Liberals and Tories have come together on Afghanistan, in a bid to take a very problematic issue for him off the table. 2. Lower expectations […]
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Democracy-ish
A pair of examples about “democracy by convenience”: 1. From the National Post, via ABCer: Government officials beg to differ. Conservative House leader Peter Van Loan has said the fixed-election law doesn’t prevent the prime minister from asking the Governor General to dissolve Parliament. “There is nothing in the law that takes away the Crown’s […]
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"Separation Will Cost A Million Jobs"
That was Paul Martin during the 1995 referendum, in an exaggeration that led to his benching for the rest of the campaign. Here’s Ed Stelmach today: The premier countered that adopting the Kyoto accord would cost Alberta 335,000 jobs and increase electrical and heating costs by “100 or 200 times.” Stelmach could not clearly explain […]
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Monday Morning
A few random Monday morning thoughts, posted Sunday night: 1. I’ve generally been in the “no election” camp over the past two years whenever the “THE GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT TO FALL!!!” speculation has started up time and time and time again. But, it’s really looking like the moment of truth has finally arrived. I think […]