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Alberta Votes Day 17: Conservatives Attack Conservatives for Being Conservative
Alberta Tories play race card, call Wildrose party of old, white men in election EDMONTON – Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives appear to be actively painting their Wildrose opposition as the party of old, white males. Tory strategists in recent days have begun warning voters that the Wildrose roster of candidates is dominated by Caucasian males and […]
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Call me Tom
After the NDP’s French ad last week, we get the English version: The ad features a collection of what I can only assume are average hard working Canadians: guy in pick-up truck with dog, pregnant mom buying groceries, man with tools, young redheaded cyclist, female doctor, and bald jogger. They all seem impressed with Thomas […]
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Alberta Votes Day 15: Paging Stockwell Smith
Like Stephen Harper in 2006, Danielle Smith now has 5 priorities, highlighted by an Accountability Act. However, in proposing citizen-initiated referendum, Smith evoked memories of an equally photogenic Albertan leading an upstart party. Remember this? Smith’s referendum idea has a higher threshold than Stockwell’s, but is equally wreckless. After all, she has left the door […]
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Mulcair’s win was inevitable…but was it predictable?
PunditsGuide concludes her top notch NDP leadership coverage with the vote breakdown of advance and in-person ballots. White Nathan Cullen “won” the convention vote, Mulcair had enough support among advanced voters that he could have dropped his pants and sung La Marseillaise during his Friday night speech, and likely still carried the day. So the […]
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Alberta Votes Day 14: Party of One
Notes from week 2 of the Alberta election, as Alison Redford tries to resurrect her campaign over Easter Weekend. 1. Daveberta’s post on the Wildrose Party’s more controversial candidates has generated over 100 responses and heavy online debate – not surprising, given the limited coverage by the mainstream media on this topic so far. Which […]
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Alberta Votes Day 12: Who says a 40 year old government can’t come up with new ideas?
Raj Sherman delivers perhaps the best line of the campaign so far: ‘Alison Redford Invents Triage’ Alberta’s Tory leader has announced money for faster treatment in emergency rooms, but the Grit leader — an ER physician — says the program is already in place. Tory Leader Alison Redford said patients with serious injuries will be […]
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Alberta Votes Day 11: A Wild Wave Sweeps Across Alberta
Dear Wildrose Party candidates, It’s time to book a return ticket from Vegas: Wildrose pulling ahead of PCs in election campaign: poll Wildrose poised for majority in Alberta: poll New Poll: Wildrose up by 17 points While the Wildrose lead ranges from 7 to 17 points on these polls, the trend is clear on all […]
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Meet Mulcair’s Arms
The much-anticipated NDP attempt to define Thomas Mulcair has arrived, en francais at least. In it, we’re treated to close ups of Mulcair’s forearms (so that the Tories won’t dare call him a “weak leader”), then Tom rolls up his sleeves… …cut to Mulcair in a suit. Why was he rolling up his sleeves in […]
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Alberta Votes Day 9: Ralphbucks Returns
On Sunday, the Wildrose Party released an April Fools press release, proposing to merge Alberta and Saskatchewan. On Monday, they took the silliness up a level: Wildrose promises cash rebates to Albertans if oil money creates budget surplus CREMONA, Alta. – Alberta’s Wildrose party is promising free oil money for all if it win’s the […]
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Alberta Votes Day 8: Losing control of the agenda
One week into the election, and Alberta’s 40 year PC dynasty is on the ropes. It’s premature to write the obituaries, but it’s never too early to write about what went wrong – and what went wrong in week one was a complete inability of Alison Redford to control the agenda. One day, the Tories […]