Alberta has come under pressure for its dismal record on the environment. The Alberta Oil Sands, near Fort McMurray, have come under the criticism by David Suzuki and Al Gore. President Obama...
Amidst public discontent with the Alberta Premier's and his Health Minister's leadership, the Alberta Conservative Party ignored Albertans by giving a resounding 77.4% vote of confidence to Ed Stelmach. Ed...
opinion by albertacowpoke | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago 121 views | 11 recommendations | 3 comments
The Progressive Conservative Party, has been in power for 40 years in Alberta. The primary reason is that there hasn't been a viable opposition, especially in the leadership department of both the...
The Alberta Health and Wellness budget was forecasted with a $1.1 Billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year. This has resulted in some cuts. Some of the measures announced were the...
On July 18th I reported that a member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, and member of the government had been kicked out of caucus. Guy Boutilier has also been relieved of all duties in the Treasury....
Three days ago I reported on an Alberta Member of the Legislative Assembly who was planning on assisting in organizing a protest against his own party and government for postponing or canceling a long term care...
opinion by albertacowpoke | 22 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 157 views | 16 recommendations | 4 comments
EDMONTON -- Premier Ed Stelmach warned his fellow Canadian premiers
that Alberta will not toughen its climate-change approach, no matter
what new national strategies other provincial leaders may propose at
next...
created by ppeggy | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 393 views | 20 recommendations | 1 comment
" An interesting post that was published in Alberta Views magazine and is now online, comparing Alberta and Venezuela. This was written prior to Ralph Klein stepping down on Thursday, finally."
created by plawiuk | 3 years ago 443 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Calgary Sun Columnist Rick Bell, himself being attacked by BT bloggers, takes a swipe at the crowd of syncophantic Moronites, err Mortonites in the blogosphere. Unfortunately it's a column he should have wrtitten a week ago. He reminds them that it was Dinning, not Ralph,...
created by plawiuk | 3 years ago 620 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Homelessness. I got a job but no home. It’s an unfortunate side effect of Alberta’s red hot economy. With the vacancy rate near the zero mark, and soaring house prices, the homeless count is rising in Edmonton with few short term solutions in sight."
created by plawiuk | 3 years ago 606 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Look I am a political junkie with the best of them, I actually went to my neighbourhood pub last night and because there were no hockey games on, I got to watch the Liberal convention much to the chagrin of my bar pals. Though they understand that for me politics is like...
created by plawiuk | 3 years ago 535 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Ok Colin James performing at the Liberal Cabaret was a better choice to watch than the Talking Heads Alberta PC leadership debate on GlobalTV. What a snorefest."
created by plawiuk | 3 years ago 359 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Edmonton Journal political affairs reporter Larry Johnsrude claims to have been live blogging from the Calgary Roundup Centre on Saturday during the PC Leadership vote. Really. Must have been doing it at the same time his pals at the Calgary Herald were."
created by plawiuk | 3 years ago 1102 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"This is a non scientific poll on the Edmonton Journal Website. The second ballot in the race to become Alberta Conservative leader and the next premier is Saturday. Who would you vote for? Jim Dinning 45.32 % Ted Morton 14.27 % Ed Stelmach 40.41 %"
created by plawiuk | 3 years ago 301 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments