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Does Everyone Know What Time It Is?
The Alberta Liberals have released their campaign platform entitled “It’s Time: A Real Action Plan For Alberta“. I’m generally not a proponent of rolling out a full platform before an election is called, but the ALP has been on the record for most of these issues for a while. I’ll have to skim through it […]
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As Lost Returns…
Lost: The freedom this Afghanistan mission was supposed to bring. This is really quite shocking (hat tip JBG): A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in […]
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When Life Immitates West Wing
So McCain takes Florida, Giuliani is expected to endorse him, and polls show McCain poised to rack up the delegates on Super Tuesday. It’s going to take an awful lot to knock this train off the tracks. Things are a bit murkier on the Democratic side. But with a McCain-Obama showdown certainly possible, is anyone […]
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Hung Out To Dry
There were a flurry of rumours floating around that Stelmach would drop the writ today, catching Taft in Toronto which would have been freaking brilliant. Instead, it appears that everything is on track for an election call after next Monday’s throne speech (which I imagine will feature a big ticket promise like high speed rail […]
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Monday News
1. Ed Stelmach is going to skip out on the climate change talks tomorrow at the first Minister’s meeting. This follows in the grand tradition of Ralph Klein playing hooky from first Minister’s health care talks to go to a casino in Hull. And this guy is trying to run on change? 2. Macleans profiles […]
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90 Day Deadline: Day 95
Remember back in the fall when Ed’s don’t-call-this-a-compromise on royalties meant the big oil companies, Syncrude and Suncor, would have to renegotiate their existing deals with the government? Remember how in a rare moment of leadership, Ed showed he had a plan by giving them 90 days to renegotiate? Well, that was 95 days ago. […]
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"You know my Answer: When we see the budget…"
You’ve probably already seen this on a few other Liblog sites, but I got a real kick out of it.
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Signs your Green Plan Sucks…
Stephen Harper is going to have to chew you out for not going far enough: OTTAWA, CALGARY — Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is at odds with the federal government and on a collision course with other premiers after the release yesterday of his long-anticipated climate-change plan. On the eve of an expected election call, Mr. […]
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There’s something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear
A pair of pre-election polls were released this week, painting very different pictures of the upcoming Alberta election. If you only look at the horse race numbers, there’s not much to be cheerful about in Liberal land – the Strategic Counsel had the PCs at 58% of decided voters, while Leger had them at 49%. […]
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And the Nominees are…
Yes, yes, Ellen Page and the girl from Road to Avonlea got Oscar nominations. Well, La-de–da. The more exciting nomination news to be announced yesterday was for the Canadian Blog Awards. While I doubt I will be much of a match for the Small Dead Animals vote-stacking machine or the Daveberta facebook group in the […]