Saturday, March 23, 2019 The weekends are usually less busy than weekdays during an election period, but they are prime days for door knocking. And that’s how I spent my afternoon. When you’re at the doors, some people will talk. They might be interested in what you have […]
Friday March 22, 2019 Interesting opinions: Danielle Smith tries straight talk: Albertans want the spending without the bill. While we have many choices in most ridings, she says the NDs are offering to spend like Lougheed, the UCP is willing to cut like Klein, and Albertans don’t want […]
Thursday, March 21, 2019 News: The Alberta Independence Party is officially in the race with 47 candidates as of Wednesday. The AIP stands for, you guessed it, separation. Policy: Alberta Liberal Party announced its education platform would decrease class sizes and provide funding for additional teaching aides. The […]
A Daily Summary of Alberta Campaigns, alphabetically. Additional links within. 27 days until Election Day The NDP and UCP began day 2 in southern Alberta, kicking off the provincial election in Lethbridge. The Alberta Party was in Edmonton where they released the first part of their campaign platform, […]
As we have seen this weekend, Jeff Callaway was not only a kamikaze candidate (a person who had was not campaigning to win), but whose campaign was directed by staff from Jason Kenney’s leadership campaign. Email documentation and testimony from former co-campaign manager Cameron Davies showed there was […]
After the shitshow that UCP nomination races were last year, I wanted the NDP to hold back on the election. I was not the first. After allegations of a “kamikaze candidate” surfaced last December, more and more people are suggesting the same. Even though the Elections Commissioner has […]
This time, it’s personal. In the grand scheme of things, I’m new here. I started following politics in 2015 and I wasn’t overly involved in political party processes. I was an outsider in 2017 and I made a volunteer cry at my second political convention because I didn’t […]
It was another Friday night news drop when Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel announced he and other candidates had been notified they would be ineligible to run for election in 2019. A press release stated Mandel and other candidates had “applied to the Court of Queen’s Bench to […]
A friend of mine jumped into a a discussion on Facebook one day and I was surprised when he took the position that he supported a woman’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy. I wasn’t surprised that he was pro-choice, I was surprised he was pro-choice because […]