Daughter Sorenne woke up around 6:15 a.m. after a big Halloween night (thanks for the costume, Katie). Then the clocks on the computer changed and I realized it was 5:15 a.m. Damn you daylight savings. So while Sorenne plays on the floor and fills her diaper, I’m looking at a poignant release from the France-based World Organization for Animal Health, inexplicably referred to as OIE (it’s...
Check out this video: I like how selective they are on who they choose to be on their list. Mike Harris is also a fiscal conservative, so is Ralph Klein for that matter. Just because others have claimed that mantel...
08/10/09: Alberta's Progressive Conservatives are still comfortably in power, of course, as they have been for 38 years. But after a long oil-based boom, the money has dried up. The province faces a $6.9-billion deficit. Premier Ed Stelmach and his ministers face considerable discontent over everything from health care to education to reforming the human rights act to delayed capital projects —...
From AGW denier Norm Kalmanovitch's missive to climate Change denier Benny Peiser , on Lord Monckton's Calgary tour date: The Calgary Chamber of Commerce through Friends of Science and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, hosted a presentation by Lord Christopher Monckton titled “Apocalypse Cancelled; The Overheated Hype behind Global Warming”. There were four members of the Alberta Provincial...
Until this week, Liberal MP Denis Coderre and former Alberta premier Ralph Klein had nothing in common beyond a loose tongue and an extra chin. But when they both took aim at their respective party leader’s exposed spine, they entered the Canadian history books of notorious backstabbers. Mr. Coderre denounced Michael Ignatieff for being too Toronto-centric after he was stripped of the right...
Climate fears based on lies, Calgary told "How long it's going to take this (global warming) scare to end, I cannot foresee. That it will come to an end is now certain because the science is in, the truth is out and the scare is over," he told reporters. Monckton cited the "biofuels scam," as another misfire related to the climate change scare. ... Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein,...
CALGARY -- Leading Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party was once a position anyone would envy. Each day a new wheelbarrow piled high with cash came wheeling in, all of it waiting to be showered on an adoring public. Tax cuts, hospitals, schools and community centres could be dished out by the handful, to soothe any voter’s gripe, and still the treasury would spill over with surpluses....
The beginnings of a political shift may have taken root Monday night in Alberta -- and its implications could have far-reaching consequences for the political right in this country. A heretofore fringe political party, the Wildrose Alliance, won a byelection in Calgary, taking a seat the Alberta Progressive Conservatives had held for 38 straight years. The winner, Paul Hinman, defeated a well-known...
It’s a tired point that byelections often represent a safe, short-lived, way for voters to protest against the government, but that makes it no less true . In 2007, a Liberal no one remembers now managed to take the seat of outgoing premier Ralph Klein in Calgary-Elbow. The Tories took it back with aplomb in a general election a little over half a year later. But there are protests, and then...
When the father of a former, popular, Tory premier decides to buy a membership of a rival conservative party, because he can no longer take his son’s former political party seriously, you know that the Alberta Tories are doomed: I just sold a Wildrose membership to Ralph Klein's dad Phil. He's furious about the PC government's treatment of seniors. (from Danielle Smith’s Twitter account)...
What's been going on this week? Not much, but some people want to make much out of nothing. Senate appointments: I say go for it PM Harper, the only ones moaning are the poor Liberals who see their power eroding. They are also so slimy that they complain about someone who has admitted they used to be illiterate. So much for the compassionate lefties. Election? I already showed you how we only needed...
The unofficial anthem of Woodstock — which took place 40 years ago this month and which we boomers have been going on about all summer — was Going Up the Country, by Canned Heat. Its famous line was, “I’m going where the water tastes like wine. We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time.” That same sense of euphoric, carefree abandon has long permeated the way...
The Star's Thomas Walkom takes on Bank of Canada honcho Mark Carney's pronouncement last week that the recession in Canada "is over". While I agree with much of Walkom's arguments to the contrary which point to the reality on the ground for Canadians, I can't say that this is accurate: And yet, it says Canada's recession is over. How so? Two answers: China and oil. The bank's hopes depend...
Premier Ed Stelmach must now know how British Prime Minister Gordon Brown feels. Just as Brown was recently rebuked by his predecessor, Tony Blair, Stelmach now finds himself in the same position: Former premier Ralph Klein criticized the Alberta government's return to deficits Thursday, suggesting he'd make a five to 10 per cent spending cut across the board. […] While stating he doesn't tend...
How come when any Conservative criticizes a judge, a thousand throats open toward heaven with a cry of “Judicial independence!”, but on those rare occasions when some Canadian court gores a leftist ox, nobody hesitates for a second to reach for a handful of ordure and fling it? Just one of those great Canadian mysteries, I suppose. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the Alberta Court of...
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