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Calgary Grit Financial Advice
Time to dump your stocks! Parliament, and all the market uncertainty that comes with it, resumes on Monday.
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Ad Watch: Olympic Edition
With record ratings for Olympic events, Canadians have become united…in the watching of CTV commercials. Here’s a run down of my favourite commercials so far: 1. BC Tourism: Celebrities – who live in LA – stand in front of green screen shots of BC, telling us they call it “home” and that “you’ve got to […]
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February Poll Soup: The New Normal
We’ve had a fair chunk of polling out this month and the results are fairly consistent – a slim Tory lead, similar to what we saw in January, at the height of the prorogation backlash. The notable exception would be Environics, which had the Grits in front earlier this month. Of course, every pundit has […]
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This Week in Alberta – The BIG Merger
We all had a good chuckle back when the Wildrose Party and Alberta Alliance merged together; “Unite the Irrelevant” would have been an appropriate headline. But that was then, and just two years later they’ve already begun carving Danielle Smith’s face into the rocky mountains to commemorate her 30 year reign as Premier. So I […]
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Nattering Nabobs of Negativism
Ignatieff angered by critics of Vancouver Games OTTAWA — Michael Ignatieff says he’s angry about the criticism being levelled at organizers of the Vancouver Winter Games. The Liberal leader dismisses the critics, primarily foreign journalists, as “nattering nabobs of negativism.” Hear, hear. Well said Mr. Ignatieff. I tend to agree that the nagging by those […]
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Do you think it is easy to make priorities?
Ask and ye shall receive. The Liberal priorities for the upcoming session of parliament: -Job creation proposals to support manufacturers and young Canadians, and to encourage investment in start-up companies; -Increase investments in clean energy and energy efficiency; -Adopt a made-in-Canada climate change plan, including a binding and verifiable cap-and-trade system with hard caps, absolute […]
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Let the games begin
Save for a few “take out the trash” announcements, I really don’t expect a lot to be going on politically over the next two weeks. So expect a low volume of political content on this blog for the duration of the Olympics – after all, if Stephen Harper can take 3 months off politics to […]
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Alberta Budget: Drawing the 2012 Battle Lines
In 2009, Alberta underwent a seismic political shift. Because of that, Budget 2010 has been more highly anticipated and speculated about than last week’s Lost premiere. And, at first glance, it’s just as confusing, with massive spending increases in some departments and deep cuts in others. After a series of cautious budgets, where the PCs […]