What could the UCP do to be included in Pride?
After being rejected for a second year and third overall Pride Parade, what are some steps the UCP could take to be included next year?
UCP Maintains Rural Alberta Advantage
In another miracle on the prairies, the United Conservative Party has managed to keep both of their seats in rural Alberta. Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, home of Conservative MP Earl Dreeshen, went to his son Devin. Unofficially, Dreeshen received 8,033 votes with 35% of the electorate casting a ballot. Of […]
(No) Pride and (abundant) prejudice
What an interesting week for Alberta politics (let’s be real, every week in Alberta politics is interesting.) And an awful week for the United Conservative Party. First the excitement started when unsurprisingly the UCP was declined the ability to participate in the Edmonton Pride Parade. To anyone with […]
Rural Albertans lose when partisanship outweighs principles
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 […]
Alberta’s Way Forward – laying out a vision for the future
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 […]
Encouraged by the talk, eager for the walk: UCP takes stance on LGBTQ Rights
Last night Vice Chairman of the United Conservative Party Interim Joint Board Len Thom posted the following on Facebook: This evening the Interim Joint Board of the United Conservative Party unanimously passed the following motion: MOVED: l. That the Board affirms and supports the rights of LGBTQ Albertans […]
Equality through exclusion; my thoughts on Calgary Pride
Calgary Pride has been making some waves with recent decisions including the exclusion of uniformed law enforcement and the most recent decision to exclude the nascent United Conservative Party from the Pride Parade on September 3rd in Calgary. Even within the LGBTQ community, these decisions are not without […]
There is no left and right here. Only right and wrong.
I was a member of the Air Cadets for over a decade. A big part of the cadet and military service is learning about leadership. As I recall, leadership was defined as motivating others to do what you want them to do. As I’ve grown in my professional […]
Political outrage for the sake of outrage is so tiring
Today as an Alberta Party communications person I had a pretty solid day. We were able to hold an opposition member to account for unethical behaviour and drove a large part of the conversation throughout both Alberta and the country on MLA expenses and double dipping. A solid […]
