What did Wiebo Ludwig do?
By Alison@Creekside
I don’t claim to be any kind of authority on Wiebo Ludwig — for that you can read Andrew Nikiforuk’s Saboteurs — but in all the considerable coverage of Ludwig’s arrest in connection with six cases of explosions on EnCana’s gas pipelines, I notice the media’s accompanying history of Ludwig makes no mention [...]
Leaping Flames
By Jodi A. Shaw
From the very beginning of the H1N1/Swine Flu drama, I’ve had zero intention of getting a flu shot. Nevertheless, even I am infuriated by the preferential treatment given to the Calgary Flames players and their families.
I don’t blame the Flames’ medical team for requesting special treatment (it doesn’t hurt to [...]
Alberta’s doctor dilemma
By Jodi A. Shaw
I just wanted to go to the doctor.
Alberta has been suffering from a physician shortage for several years, but it’s become especially keen lately. With Calgary’s population just over 1,070,000 and growing, an estimated 200,000 Calgarians are currently without a family doctor. It’s a complex issue – fewer doctors are going [...]
Mr. Ignatieff misses the point
By Nicole Walyshyn
Michael Ignatieff was once again out west this weekend, telling the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce all sorts of things he thought they wanted to hear: that they were prescient and progressive, having been the first CoC to admit women as members; that they were right to label Stephen Harper’s response to the economic [...]
Another great RepubliCon idea
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside
Dr Dawg relates that Gerry Chipeur “the Alberta lawyer who drafted a power-sharing proposal between Stockwell Day, Gilles Duceppe and Joe Clark in 2000 is now suggesting that the Conservatives should defy the Governor-General if she were to ask the Liberal-NDP coalition to form a new government if the Conservative administration falls [...]
Harper and the coalition of sharks
By guest blogger Frank Moher
One thing of which you can be certain: if you’re a western Canadian prime minister, they will eventually try to get rid of you. They, of course, being the central Canadian political operatives and parties who regard it as their congenital right to run the country.
It happened to Diefenbaker, it happened [...]
Why we don’t vote
Because of our ridiculous and highly undemocratic first-past-the-post system, the party that most Canadians do not want is forming a government. According to Fair Vote Canada, this stupid, stupid system wasted millions of votes, distorted results, severely punished large blocks of voters, exaggerated regional differences, created an unrepresentative Parliament and contributed to a record low [...]
Voting Liberal, without hope
Well, very little time left to make a decision and I don’t have a favourite party.
I have been very interested in listening to Green Party candidates and I believe that they ought to have a voice in parliament. So if I lived in a riding with a very strong Green Party candidate, I would [...]
Dion’s plan hits home
Let’s talk about real quality of life and how a decent government program can contribute to it. Many years ago, nobody could afford to get into the housing market in Alberta. So the provincial government offered new home buyers an interest-free loan of $5,000 to help out with their downpayment. I took one of those [...]
Tattletales have more fun
I wasn’t much of a snitch as a kid, even though my older brother tormented me. It was a pact, a point of honour not to tattle. So perhaps my enjoyment of telling on the bad guys now is a release from the strictures of childhood. Or perhaps they are just so much worse than [...]