Calgary Grit

There’s a lot of talk about those chasing the Democratic nomination in 2008. After seeing fictional black, female, and latino Presidents on TV in recent years, there’s a very good chance that the Dems may be going down one of those roads. Here’s a quick look at the field to date: The Frontrunner Hillary Clinton: […]

There was a Valpy-esque profile of Stephane Dion in Saturday’s Globe for any who missed it.

Alberta Grits are demanding an overhaul of the province’s election finances disclosure law after Elections Alberta revealed the Tories haven’t filed required financial reports for nearly two decades. “There needs to be a complete review and overhaul,” said Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald. “Things have to be more tightly controlled and they have to be more […]

Given that a potential Dion Government Cabinet would look vastly different from the shadow Cabinet he announced today, I’m not sure how much we can actually read into it. But it’s one of those things you sort of have to comment on so here are a few random thoughts: –A BCer in Toronto has the […]

Two interesting stories from the past two days: Oilsands tax incentives questioned OTTAWA — Environment Minister John Baird hinted Wednesday his government is considering eliminating tax incentives introduced in the 1990s to boost production in Alberta’s oilsands. As he announced a $230-million investment over four years into research on clean technologies with Natural Resources Minister […]

Oh Jack… BRANDON, Man. — It was all acronym soup at a speech by Jack Layton at Manitoba Ag Days yesterday. The federal NDP leader left agricultural producers looking at each other in wide-eyed wonder after a speech about farm issues in which he repeatedly referred to the “SARS” crisis which affected the Manitoba cattle […]

1. Kevin Taft was on the Dave Rutherford show recently and you can listen to the interview here. 2. According to these calculations, Ralph Klein and Shirley McLellan will each be walking away from the Alberta legislature with parting gifts well over half a million dollars. 3. This Decima poll is interesting. More Canadians would […]

I dropped by the Dion town hall on Thursday, mainly because I figured a public town hall with the Liberal leader in Alberta would be sure to generate excitement (if not protests, riots, and/or lynchings). Unfortunately, there were no irate NEP rants from this large and mostly (but not uniformly) Liberal crowd which received Stephane […]

I was really saddened to hear about the passing of Mike Jensen, who was one of the most passionate and intelligent Liberals in Calgary there was. Mike was active in the Liberal Party in Calgary for a long time and I last saw him at the leadership convention where he was a Dion delegate. He […]

-The Politic has a post up asking the question “does Alberta have culture?” Those who doubt it, have obviously never been to the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum. -Speaking of stuffed gophers, Stephen Taylor has an interview up with Jason Kenney on his site. -Eddie has looked anything but steady in recent days, grabbing big headlines […]