CalgaryLiberal: Rise up Canada.
April 16, 2011 by
CalgaryLiberal: Stephen Randall noted by media as most engaged Twitterer in Alberta, fourth nationally
April 15, 2011 by
The campaign I’m working on in Calgary Centre-North has had its campaign recognized nationally for being the most engaging on twitter. Global News covers it here. He’s engaging with people and talking to people. This is in direct comparison to the local Conservative candidate, who doesn’t even bother to show up to forums. …
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CalgaryLiberal: Why I’ll never, ever vote Green
April 12, 2011 by
During one election when I was in highschool I volunteered for the Greens. It was a small commitment, it was only one night, and it, I believed, was for a cause. Reflecting on their policy document today I can only think that, if I had to chose again, I wouldn’t even consider donating either my money [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Paul Martin Coming To Calgary (15th)
April 10, 2011 by
Conversations and Cocktails with The Right Honourable Paul Martin The Liberal Party of Canada invites you to attend Conversation and Cocktails with Right Honourable Paul Martin. As part of the election outreach tour, Former Prime Minister Paul Martin welcomes the chance to meet and discuss the Liberal Party’s plans on the campaign trail. This event is an [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Inside the Campaign, Calgary Centre-North: Stephen Randall On CPAC April 5 2011
April 6, 2011 by
CalgaryLiberal: Why Tories Don’t Show Up
April 6, 2011 by
A basic theme in this campaign is how Tories just don’t show up. In my involvement with the Liberals in Alberta this is doubly so. Nationally, with Harper’s 5 questions / day limit and his reversal on a one-on-one debate with Ignatieff, it’s the same, again. A basic question is.. why? A basic fundamental in how [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Stephen Harper gets owned by Terry Milewski. Has he chickened out of a debate? (April 3rd, 2011)
April 4, 2011 by
CalgaryLiberal: A Frum Fantasy, a RE to his editorial this morning
April 2, 2011 by
David Frum, in his regular appearance at the National Post, has written about how Harper has pulled out the “worst” of Ignatieff in the election. That Ignatieff has completely missed the ball. That Ignatieff has taken the bait, attacked his allies, and made way for a fulfillment of Conservative strategy. This is all in relation [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Been a little busy.
April 2, 2011 by
Sorry for not posting much in the last three weeks. Between running in an election (for the University of Calgary Students’ Union), working on Dr. Stephen Randall’s campaign, going to the Alberta Legislature for the introduction of the budget (thanks Darshan for the ticket!), midterms, exams, and fighting off the flu, I’ve been swamped. From [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Inside the Campaign, Calgary Centre-North (I)
March 13, 2011 by
I knocked on the door and pushed it open, ever so slightly, to look inside. It was my professor, Dr. Randall, with whom I had been taking a seminar course with on the topic of American foreign policy since 1945. I had come that day to his office for two reasons. One, to get an [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Death by Chocolate– Young Liberal Event, March 11th
February 28, 2011 by
Buy your tickets online. Every year, as per tradition, young liberals in Calgary gather riding presidents, candidates, old and young liberals, red tories, blue liberals, big L and little l liberals, and put them all together into a room to enjoy one of the greatest substances known to humankind: chocolate. Deep dark chocolate, accompanied by [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: A Culture of Entitlement and Untruth: Bev Oda must recant and resign
February 17, 2011 by
Just last week I wrote on the importance of truth. This week was another example showing that they couldn’t apply such a value. I’ve waited a few days on this for one poignant reason: I have been waiting on the Conservatives, bloggers and writers, to call out their leader on the abuse that continues to be [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Calgary Event: Bleeding Heart Liberal Ball–Tickets are about to be sold out!
February 11, 2011 by
Are you looking for an evening out with the missus? Interested in a night of ballroom dancing and liberal Liberalness? If you’re nodding your head to either of these you should seriously considered purchasing a ticket to Calgary East’s Bleeding Heart Liberal Ball. It’s the accumulation of seven months of hard work on the part [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: The Importance of Truth
February 10, 2011 by
The Conservatives over the last four years have shown time and again their willingness to shut down facts, truth, and dissent. Parliamentary committees have turned into graveyards. The institutions that used to be able to develop ideas and solutions away from the partisan attacks, have been shut down. Manuals have been printed and pushed around [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Bell vs. Teksavvy’s George Burger on the Facts on Bandwidth
February 3, 2011 by
CalgaryLiberal: Alberta Liberal Party: A Clean Slate and a New Beginning
February 2, 2011 by
Media scan: CBC on Dr. Swann resigning as the leader of the Official Opposition in Alberta Legislature CalgaryGrit gives his piece Maurice Tougas gives his thoughts CTV on Dr. Swann resigning CalgaryHerald on Dr. Swann resigning Writer Earl J Woods gives a good word for Dr. Swann Daveberta gives his regular anti-Liberal rant Of all [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Strombo Talks About The Impending Metered Internet
January 28, 2011 by
CalgaryLiberal: Alberta Premier Stelmach Resigns
January 25, 2011 by
Don Braid breaks the news on Ed Stelmach quitting the Premiership job Stelmach posts on his blog on why he resigned Enlightened Savage enlightens us. To be totally honest, I’m not surprised. A deficit budget, the lowest polling numbers in years, and a caucus in full revolt–it’s a recipe for disaster for any premier, and [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Dave Taylor: A Failure to Fulfill Your (Contractual) Duty
January 25, 2011 by
So, another little birdie (there seems to be plenty of them these days) has slipped me the contract between the Alberta Liberal Party and Dave Taylor–the one he signed before running for them as a candidate in 2008. In 2008 Dave Taylor signed a document clearly stating that he would never join another caucus if [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: New Alberta Liberal Video: Meet David Swann
January 22, 2011 by
“As part of his ongoing effort to offer a new politics of hope and transparency to Alberta, Official Opposition Leader David Swann has created a four-minute video that will help Albertans understand who he is and where he’s coming from. “It’s tough for Albertans to choose leaders unless those leaders are open and honest about [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Alberta Liberals Portfolio Change Up
January 20, 2011 by
So, a little birdie told me who is moving to what portfolio for the Official Opposition in Alberta’s legislature.Judging by the shifts, the ALP is trying to set up their team for the next election. Full list is at the bottom of the post. With Kevin Taft and Harry Chase opting not to run in [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: The West Still Wants In #ableg #cdnpoli
January 9, 2011 by
There has never been a western Prime Minister. (Harper is from Toronto, by the way. He doesn’t count, even though he has been transplanted to Calgary.) Just recently with the Edmonton Expo going up in smoke, the long term terrible–non-existent really–oil and natural gas policies, regulatory undersight, substantially less support from the stimulus in relation [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Harper’s Youth Employment Strategy: A Lame Game of More of the Same.
January 5, 2011 by
Today Harper’s strategy on fixing youth unemployment came out. As you can guess by my headline I am thoroughly unimpressed by it. Angry, too. When youth unemployment is double the average unemployment, an 80,000 spike in youth unemployment over the last two years, and recalling the more than 400,000 unemployed youths last year, the Harper [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: A Year in Review: the Alberta Liberal Party (Part V) #cdnpoli #ableg #ablib
January 2, 2011 by
Frustration. That’s a word that completely typifies the Alberta Liberal Party this year. The frustration began earlier this year with the party’s AGM in Edmonton when a group from the Edmonton-Glenora and Edmonton-Mill Woods constituency associations put up and pushed through a policy during the convention’s debates on cooperation with other parties in elections. And [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: A Year in Review: the NDP, Alberta Party and the Greens (Part IV)
January 1, 2011 by
The Alberta Party Last year I wrote about being interested in what was going on with “Reboot Alberta,” which was a group of Albertans going around the province getting discussions going and trying to create birth of discussion around political change in the province. This movement seems to have been taken over and eclipsed by [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: A Year In Review: The Wildrose Alliance (Part III)
December 31, 2010 by
This is where things get interesting for Alberta. According to the last poll I read the Wildrose have gotten into the high 20%s, leaving behind the ALP at 19% where the Wildrose has been at for the last while. Based on this poll if an election was held today the Wildrose would form the new [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: A Year In Review: The Progressive Conservatives (Part II)
December 30, 2010 by
A fundamental concern for the PCs, and a concern for all parties, is that their popularity is at stake with the general public. Ed Stelmach, being quiet and “steady” politician, has found himself down in the polls and the PC’s popularity has only just in the last few months settled down to the mid to [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: A Year In Review: Alberta Provincial Politics (Part I)
December 29, 2010 by
Alberta politics has always tended to be a bland, simple landscape with one obvious winner, year after year and decade after decade. The political scene was, for the most part, uninteresting and unchanging. That is until several changes began to happen in Alberta. Three major trends in Albertan politics are beginning to take root: Changes in [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Liberal is not a dirty word in Alberta.
December 26, 2010 by
The party name “Liberal” is not a dirty word in Alberta. Some attribute issues over Liberal branding in Alberta due to the National Energy Program, or NEP. This is an excuse and. Over the last six months I have knocked on more than 600 doors trying to get a team set up for Calgary East’s [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Garbage Politics: Rumors of Harper’s Marriage Issues
December 24, 2010 by
Andrew Cohen and Norman Spector are peddling gossip aimed not at improving the debates of today but focusing on garbage politics. And it is garbage politics. Spector, in the pulled Globe and Mail piece, writes that the supposedly failing marriage between Stephen Harper and his wife may have been the cause of “bizarre” decisions like [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: Typical Out of Touch Tory Senator Needs Your Help
December 24, 2010 by
CalgaryLiberal: Alberta Tories Fail at Healthcare: Syphilis
December 23, 2010 by
Highlights: The Suppressed Report: Alberta Health’s “The Syphilis Outbreak in Alberta” http://www.health.alberta.ca/documents/STI-Syphilis-Report-2010.pdf CBC on the issue Edmonton Journal What the ALP would do The Alberta Progressive Conservative fail again at healthcare. This time it’s with Sexually Transmitted Diseases, specifically syphilis. This is a consistent theme, as you are probably aware, in the Albertan media. The number of reported [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: So I was asked the other day why I wasn’t a Conservative.
December 20, 2010 by
She started off by saying I was an obviously an ambitious guy with an eye towards attaining power. And that I had talent that was being wasted. She also found it strange that I joined parties when they were at their weakest: for the ALP it was just after a thorough trouncing by the Progressive [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: New Years Resolutions
December 18, 2010 by
I have three. (1) Listen more. As you can tell by the previous blog posts I’ve had a particular frustration that I haven’t really been able to pinpoint for myself. I think it comes down to the core thought that I haven’t listened enough to myself and to others. (2) Understand more. Listening is all [...] …
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CalgaryLiberal: I need some thinking time.
December 13, 2010 by
This has a lot to do with my previous post about becoming more positive. It’s easy to say one wants to become less partisan and more justified in one’s discourse but it is a wholly different thing to actually write as such. It’s a complete reshaping of how I write and showcase my thoughts. Change [...] …
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