Alvin Finkel, of the Change Alberta movement, asks in a recent blog post, “What now, Alberta?”
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Lessons for common sense and conservatives
The election in Alberta is over and done with. Done deal. Lies and manipulation won, truthfulness and candour lost. Regardless of what Albertans will have to put up with for the next four years, there are three key lessons to be taken away from this experience.
Tories won through fear, while Wildrose lost after failing to heed my advice
As columnist Licia Corbella notes, Alison Redford and her PC party won on account of fear, not because so many voters are suddenly in love with Redford’s left-wing ideas. The fear, of course, was directed at the social conservatism that reared its head in the campaign’s home stretch.
Alberta Votes – did it really?
Alberta, 2016: The province has a double-digit billion dollar deficit, the savings fund has been depleted and provincial debt has been growing at an alarming rate. Even after Premier Alison Redford’s sharp increase in personal income taxes and introduction of a 10% sales tax, there’s no prospect of paying off the debt and balancing the budget. Unions – teachers, public sector workers, etc. – are running roughshod over the province, getting away with murder every day since they have the premier’s full support. Brian Mason, former leader of the Alberta NDP, has started his own party, one with a surprisingly conservative platform – in Year One of the Redford Regime, he realized the folly of socialist policies, taken to extremes by Alberta’s first über-NDP premier Redford, and having seen such magnification of socialist ideology, Mason began to see that being a social-democrat wasn’t for him after all.
Alberta Votes: Making it count
Can you believe it? After months of speculation, and several weeks of an oftentimes acrimonious campaign, the day has finally arrived: time to cast your ballots, folks.
Alberta Votes: Untested is better than having failed time and time again
The argument that the Wildrose Alliance is “untested” and “inexperienced” and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to form a government doesn’t hold water. Every time Albertans changed a long-serving government, or “dynasty”, they replaced it with an “untested” and “inexperienced” new party (rather than an existing opposition party). This is how we do things in Alberta, and this is how we’re going to do it again on April 23.
Alberta Votes: Only one party worthy of endorsement – Wildrose
Full disclosure upfront: As a political commentator, I long ago decided not to belong to any political parties, including the Wildrose Alliance. It makes it easier to draw objective conclusions without coming under heavy artillery fire from others inside the “echo chamber” – been there, done that, so no more.
Alberta Votes: Somebody explain ‘civility’ to Sherman
Wildrose candidates are “homophobic, climate change deniers” and “bigots” while the PCs are “corrupt/incompetent/bullying” and “senior neglecting,” Liberal Leader Raj Sherman shot out to the Twitterverse this week.
Thus, spoke, or tweeted, Liberal boss Raj Sherman.
Alberta Votes: Hypocrisy of left-wing PC and their media enablers
An ethnic candidate for PC can make what appears to be a racist comment, and gets away with it. The media pick up on it only cursorily, if at all. Alison Redford says how disappointed she is by an alleged racist comment made by Wildrose candidate Ron Leech, but when confronted with the the same type of alleged racist comment by her own candidate, Muhammad Rasheed, she has no comment.
Alberta Votes: Sherman scores own goal, while media ignore ‘racist’ comment by PC candidate
Liberal leader Raj Sherman leaves voters scratching their heads. Which is it, they surely must want to ask him, if the PC and Wildrose parties are so rotten to the core that we shouldn’t vote for them, why do you say now that you could easily work with either of them, provided they give you what you ask for?
Alberta Votes: Naomi Lakritz caught in major lie again
Surfing over to the Calgary Herald website, it’s not a question of if, but rather of how many lies the paper’s editor Naomi Lakritz can tell in a single column. Her most recent drivel, however, takes the cake, because by falsifying facts that are clearly in evidence for everyone else to read up on, she implies that Albertans are too dumb to read.
Alberta Votes: Time for Albertans to have their IQ tested
The final week before the election promises to deliver entertainment for all. To be sure, there’s plenty to laugh at, and cry.
Alberta Votes: Redford fearmongering directly linked to wishes for death or murder of opponent
Left-wing PC leader Alison Redford is the textbook example of the kind of lefty everyone hates: feeding the public outrageous lies about political opponents, agitating public opinion, until a nutjob blows a gasket and says – or even does – something horrible.
Alberta Votes: Hunsperger case proves Redford to be intolerant of other views
Not long ago, at the height of the discussion about “conscience rights”, Alison Redford, leader of the left-wing PC party, claimed that she was tolerant of all views, no matter how diverse. It was columnist Lorne Gunter who called her out on that particular lie, saying Redford only tolerates other views when and to the extent they match hers.