February 10, 2010 – 12:52 am
Did you know you can download the ministerial business plans from Alberta.ca? With today’s Budget announcement and everything available at budget2010.alberta.ca, I thought, “I wonder if budget2009.alberta.ca looks anything alike?”
Well it turns out not only do the sites look and function the same, they have much the same information. Meaning it is VERY easy to [...]
February 7, 2010 – 6:21 pm
When I first heard about the Manning Centre’s Conference on Alberta’s Future, as someone who values ANY conversation about a better path forward, I eagerly signed up. No conversation is bad conversation.
I then spent the next month being extremely excited about the prospect of the discussions this – no doubt – smart group of people [...]
November 7, 2009 – 6:00 pm
Markham Hislop has a great op-ed piece on his South East Calgary News site right now. He presents his case for why the Alberta Government does not deserve the criticism they are being shellacked with right now over their handling of the H1N1 vaccination program.
If there is one thing I hate it is people being [...]
October 15, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Let me be clear: I have nothing against Ed Stelmach. Generally speaking I think the PC government of Alberta is doing a pretty decent job. I’m not happy with them all the time, but a lot of the stuff they get slack crap for would come the government’s way regardless of what party was in [...]
Did MLA Doug Elniski do something dumb? Yes. Was posting his thoughts online the mistake? No.This is what makes social media such a powerful tool when it comes to politics: you get a chance to see inside the mind of our leaders and what makes them tick…