As we head into a federal election Canadians are being blessed with warnings about political bots and micro-targeting on social media, and as a bonus, an impressively cohesive attempt by Conservative MPs and Senators to spread allegations of vote rigging. Message discipline is incredibly strong in the right-leaning […]
Albertans may recall at the end of May this year when Post Media hired Jason Kenney’s former chief of staff Nick Koolsbergen to lobby the United Conservative Party-run Government of Alberta for opportunities in which the commercial content portion of Postmedia could collaborate with Alberta’s $30 million dollar […]
For the better part of two years Albertans have been holding rallies across the province in support of the Trans Mountain Expansion. Two years of constant media coverage; two years of trying to rally support for their cause across the country. Two years of Albertans braving sun, cold […]
You can’t please everyone but one would have thought there would have been a little bit of happiness in Alberta after Justin Trudeau’s Trans Mountain Expansion approval yesterday. Instead, Alberta’s Premier, who campaigned on “Jobs, Pipelines, (and the) Economy”, admitted that the pipeline won’t provide jobs for Alberta, […]
Alberta will owe Ottawa precisely nothing – no gratitude, no slavish thanks – if the pipeline reboot is approved. ~ […]
Today is the two month anniversary of the first day of a UCP government. Since that day, our government has cut almost $2 billion dollars in revenue to increase our annual deficit by, (I bet you didn’t guess)… $1.5 billion dollars! Oh, because that $2 billion in revenue actually […]
Here for the ratio… ~@fakeezzie Russell Brand could be forgiven for believing he was talking to an ally when he was introduced to the Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. I mean, his actual title is MINISTER… of MENTAL HEALTH and ADDICTIONS. Why would anyone think otherwise? […]
Alberta’s Minister of Education, Adriana LaGrange, has faced constant questions from the Opposition in the Legislature about funding for the K-12 system. The Calgary Board of Education said they were bracing for cuts and other school boards across the province were as well. On Monday, Finance Minister Travis […]
Alberta is so hard done by. With the highest wages in the country and the lowest provincial tax rates (on average), and no provincial sales tax (PST), we have it really, really rough. In the little province that could be wealthier if only Canada would stop taxing us […]