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Top Ten Jobs for Premier Ed Stelmach After He\'s Fired
10. Wal-mart greeter.9. Promotional speaker.8. (not available due to government cutbacks)7. Professor of Economics – University of Havana.6. “Yours is the pepperoni and mushroom...”5. Insomnia Treatment Therapist.4. Mannequin.3. “…and I’m...
New Paradigm Confuses Party Leaders
It may be a couple of years away, but the unofficial campaign for the next Alberta provincial election is well underway. Wildrose Alliance supporters knew it when Paul Hinman won the Calgary-Glenmore by-election. The media knew it when Danielle Smith...
Decision \'09: The Post-Mortem
Today was the culmination of five months of a leadership campaign, thousands of hours devoted by hundreds, interest in a non-P.C. race like never before. It was the finish line for two tireless candidates and their teams. Now, I’d like to add my co...
Why Danielle Smith Must Win
We’re getting down to the end of the race. Both the Danielle Smith and Mark Dyrholm camps are hard at it, each in their own way doing all they can to get out their candidate’s message.There have been shots taken by supporters of both campaigns. T...
Another Convert...Maybe
I first met Darren way back in the days of the 1989 provincial campaign. Both young and new to the political game, we shared many chats about changing the world – or at least Alberta – over pizza and beer.Time went by and I lost touch with him, u...
Random Rants: Summer of '09
Random thoughts while enjoying one of a dwindling number of hot days remaining in the Summer of ’09……the federal Conservatives are once again polling in majority territory. If only that could happen during an actual election…….tough times f...
'Be Quebec' and Other Winning Ideas
There is an unmistakable upswing in the amount of water cooler buzz about Alberta’s Wildrose Alliance party these days.The just-started leadership race to replace Paul Hinman has created endless list of potential candidates, with everyone from form...
Wildrose Alliance Better Off Because of Hinman
I should have known. Truly, I really should have seen it coming. The fact that the first honest to goodness warm spring day of the year happened to coincide with my plan to have a rare ‘kill the cabin fever’ day was perfect. Too perfect.As the af...
Crossing the Floor
My support of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives began early. As a kid of five or six years old, I had an inside ‘connection’ (thanks, Uncle Bill!) which led to a tour of the Legislature building, the highlight being the chance to sit in Pete...
Ducks in a Row
There’s something to be said for term limits. History has shown repeatedly that when a political force holds power for too long, it inevitably goes through detrimental phases.The ‘newness’ of leadership and ideas give way to redundancy, which t...
