How much will the Alberta Party hear? Community Intelligence

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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:37:04 GM

Will it also eventually follow the footsteps of the . Reform Party. evolve into an idea of grassroots that was sustainable for a period of time until an opportunity to merge platforms so it can win an election? ...

Alberta politics: where I think the Alberta Party should be headed ...

Alain Saffel

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:57:27 GM

The . Alberta Party. recently merged with Renew . Alberta. so I decided to throw my opinion into the crazy mix that is . Alberta. politics. ... There are many others, and these things cut across . party. lines. Gay marriage is another thing Canadians don't have a problem with, generally. Senate . reform. just isn't on their radar, but parties would know this if they listened. Canadians also aren't interested in secret international deals. Canadians do want input. ...

Who is Ted Morton, Alberta's new finance minister? - Capital Notebook

Capital Notebook

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:00:00 GM

Morton was an early backer of the . Reform party. . In 1998, he successfully ran for the party in . Alberta's. election to put forward names for the next Senate appointments, but the federal Liberals never appointed him to the upper chamber. ...

The Baron's Time Capsule: Cowboy Steve quits the Young Liberals

Baron von Tollbooth

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:55:00 GM

Cowboy Steve then took stock of his future and joined the . Reform Party. . The Toronto, Ontario native and University of Toronto alumnus dropout coined the Reformers' slogan "The West wants in!". He quit the . Reform Party. in 1997, ...

Advice that won't be taken - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca

Colby Cosh

hu, 25 Feb 2010 14:05:10 GM

All they have to do is look next door to B.C., to see how a Liberal party can make itself politically viable in a Western province. But that's part of the difference: the B.C. Liberals are pragmatic in a way that the . Alberta. Liberals ... Another problem is that the B.C. Liberals don't have anyone eating their lunch over on the right side of the spectrum (unless and until some nutbar fringe party like the Old BC . Reform Party. comes along e.g., under the Return of Vander ...

Ken Chapman: Is There a Wave of Change Coming to Alberta's Politics?

Ken Chapman

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:14:00 GM

Some Reboot progressives believe a new centrist political . party. has to be formed to respond to the dramatic shift to the right of . Alberta's. political culture. Others are committed to changing the existing political parties and governing ... Still others want democratic and electoral . reform. in . Alberta. . Then there is a large group of Reboot people who are part of volunteer based, not-for-profit civil society organizations who want to look at changing the very nature of ...

Elections boss speaks out - Inside Alberta Politics

Renata D'Aliesio

hu, 19 Feb 2009 17:00:00 GM

Dissent and . reform. should never be tolerated in our one-. party. state. I fully expect the next electoral officer do the right thing and place only your exhaulted name on the ballot. There can be no other choice. ...

Letters

nixtuff

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:47:00 GM

A = . Alberta. Alliance (AB) W = Wildrose Alliance (AB) W = Western Canada Concept (AB, SK) R = Representative Party (AB) R = . Reform Party. (BC) S = Saskatchewan Party (SK) Y = Yukon Party (YK) P = Liberal-Progres​sive Union (MB) ...

Are There Cracks in the Tory Armour in Alberta ?

Emily Dee

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:09:00 GM

The Wildrose Alliance recently won a bi-election, and have been making a lot of noise in rural communities, following the pattern of their predecessor, the . Reform Party. ; who also started out as a Western protest movement. ...

race42008.com Blog Archive Canada: Alberta's Wildrose Alliance ...

Adam Brickley

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:10:00 GM

The entire Wildrose Alliance movement is modelled after the canadian alliance party which was active nationallyin the late 1990s and early 2000s (beofore that it was called the . Reform Party. ). The CA's last leader was Stephen Harper, ...

Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Tony Clement Calls Stephen ...

Emily Dee

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GM

Clement made that accusation during the televised debates for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance Party (formerly known as the . Reform Party. of Canada and now the Conservative Party of Canada.) He also accused his adversary of proposing to build ... Mr. Clement then went on to accuse Stephen Harper of proposing to build a firewall around . Alberta. , of writing off electoral prospects in Quebec and of badmouthing Atlantic Canadians. This was during the televised debate for ...

David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: In defence of floor crossers ...

David J. Climenhaga

ue, 12 Jan 2010 04:47:00 GM

My father, who was an old-fashioned conservative and never a . Reform Party. supporter, always said that you elect the MP, not the party. Logically, floor-crossing has to be a part of that. But he was very critical of Jack Horner for ...

Is the Progressive Movement Relevant to the 21st Century

Cowboy Logic

ue, 15 Sep 2009 04:21:00 GM

The underlying social dynamic that manifested itself in the Progressive Movement is still present in . Alberta. and continues to shape the political reality when it is provoked. The emergence of the . Reform Party. as an electoral powerhouse ...

The Alberta Altruist: Official Party Status

Alberta Altruist

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:15:00 GM

I realize how important this funding and questions are to the Wildrose, but in . party. principle we need to practice what we preach and wasting more tax dollars is not the what we claim. Democratic . reform. is also preached so how is ...

A 'demographic time bomb' will soon hit health care: Duckett ...

Renata D'Aliesio

ue, 25 Aug 2009 09:29:00 GM

Over the past decade, health spending in . Alberta. has increased about 10 per cent a year. Today, our system spends about a million and a half dollars every hour, $30 million a day. Even BEFORE that age-and-illness​ bomb explodes, . ... the Conservatives OVER-PAY their 3rd . party. health providers, including eye surgery and joint replacements, and finally the Conservatives fail to remind Albertans that health care in America is a minimum 30% more expensive because of private ...

Darryl Wolk Blog: MP and MPP Salary Scale

Darryl

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:45:00 GM

Alberta. : $83024. Saskatchewan: $73191. Manitoba: $73512. Ontario: $$112900. Quebec: $106682. New Brunswick: $79507. Nova Scotia: $65556. Prince Edward Island: $56459. Newfoundland and Labrador: $88064. Yukon: $65556. Nunavut: $68953 . ... I started federally with the . Reform Party. and later held memberships in both the PC and Canadian Alliance parties prior to the merger. I worked on Belinda Stronach's leadership and local campaign prior to her crossing the floor. ...

is revolution the big idea in alberta ?

Patrick Ross

hu, 17 Sep 2009 23:54:00 GM

to compare hinman's victory to the 1988 deborah grey victory in beaver river that foreshadowed preston manning and the . reform party's. 1993 arrival as a political force in ottawa may be a bit of a stretch. but in the wake of the victory, ...

It is not for you to know the times or the seasons - Colby Cosh ...

Colby Cosh

hu, 03 Dec 2009 14:23:20 GM

When it comes to . Alberta. , Manning always says the same thing in the same way. We may, in fact, be coming up on the 20th anniversary of his use of this evergreen. Here's how it looked in an unsigned . Reform Party. commentary on/warning to ...

PR Part 2

nixtuff

hu, 18 Feb 2010 05:08:00 GM

The radical regionalization​ of the vote like we find in the . Reform Party. or Bloc does not happen at the provincial level. Federally, however, I propose that each district be made up of one province, or for smaller provinces, ...

Click here to see the full post The issue of Proportional ...

nixtuff

ue, 16 Feb 2010 03:57:00 GM

Again, back to the 1990s, when the . Reform Party. and the Canadian Alliance never managed to elect more than two members east of the Manitoba-Ontari​o border. On the flip side we have the Bloc Quebecois. Normally, parties place their ...