Duane Bratt, a political science Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University, wrote a fantastic article about how political parties can, and do, capitalize on voter anger. In 2015, Alberta voters were angry. They saw the backroom politics, political […]
The Alberta New Democrat convention was held in Edmonton last weekend and with it, the outline of their campaign for 2019. If I have been impressed with Conservative messaging in the past, and I have, the Alberta NDP look as though they are about to embark on a […]
The reviews became mixed on the Alberta Party’s convention after the Edmonton Journal’s Keith Gerien offered a critical, but well-founded, review of the policies brought forward for debate. He was right; there was little to get excited about in the policies. The Alberta Party supports stability in fiscal […]
United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney took Monday off after a United Conservative public relations disaster on the weekend. First, Prab Gill, MLA for Calgary-Greenway, announced he would step down as the caucus whip pending the investigation into ballot stuffing on Thursday. Then he resigned from the caucus on […]
An ongoing concern in Alberta for some time, particularly since the economic crash of 2014, has been rural crime. Those who live outside urban areas are faced with little options when rural police forces are overstretched and slow to respond, and with property crimes on the rise, the […]
In order to succeed in Alberta politics, it’s important to not just be something that people vote for in protest, though that has certainly played a role in the rise of the NDP in 2015 and the subsequent rise of the UCP. In my experience and interactions with […]
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“What’s your stance on the gay agenda and those Muslims?” That’s a question that was asked recently at a political meeting. It was an event like pretty much any other. A group of people gather in a pub (or maybe it was a restaurant, maybe a community hall). […]
In the last week there has been a lot to talk about on the political front and very little of it provided optimism for Alberta. In BC, MLA Christy Clark, who approved the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, lost her bid to form government and the NDP’s MLA John Horgan was named Premier designate on […]
