Sitemap - 2007 - Ken Chapman: Citizenship Matters
Cut the Crap in the Next Federal Election
Harper's Probationary Period Is Over - It's Time For an Election
Who is Responsible for Bhutto's Death Gets "Curiouser and Curiouser"
Well Deserved Kudos to Dave Hancock
Mike Huckabee Should Not Be President.
Voter Apathy and a Perfect Storm for Alberta Politics
Bhutto Assassination and Shades of JFK's Death
Calgary Egmont PC Nomination Update
Wake Up Alberta and Get Ready for a February Election Call
Romantic Comedies - Dubya's Antidote to American Angst
Has Calgary Sun Columnist Paul Jackson Been "Suspended?"
It is Time For Alberta to Set Up a Comprehensive Volunteer Screening System
Harper's Foreign Investment Review Policy Targets China
Will the Alliance and Wildrose Parties Bring Down Ed Stelmach?
Harper Decrees "There Will Be NO Nuclear Accident"
Alberta Separatist David Crutcher Also Not Acceptable as a PC Candidate
Thoughts on Bitumen Upgrading and Electrical Deregulation
Thoughts on the "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Contract
Wildrose Party Ready For Official Party Status
Is Dr Oberg Really Reconsidered and Perhaps is NOT Running for Re-election?
What's the Worst That Can Happen???
Paul Jackson, Calgary Sun Columnist, Flip Flops on Support for Chandler
Is the Ethics Committee Lobbying Schreiber?
Are the White Supremacists Upset?
PC Party Should Learn From the Chandler Experience and Fix Its Nomination and Leadership Process
Kudos to Pengrowth Corporation
How the Subprime Market "Works"
Stelmach's First Year as Alberta's Premier
Stelmach Refuses Chandler as a Candidate
Free Speech and Political Candidates
Alaska and Alberta Both Dealing With Resource Revenue Issues.
Mr. Premier - Just Say No to Mr. Chandler!
Schreiber Is On His Way to Ottawa
Israel and Palestine Leaders Agree to Negotiation Talks
Climate Change Aspirations Won't Cut It Mr. Harper
Stelmach Is Reviewing the Chandler Nomination...YES!!!
Did Alberta Try to Get Quebec to Change Policy on Kyoto by Offering "Billions of Industry" Money?
Oil Sands Survey Comments Reveals Concerns.
Stelmach Should Reject Craig Chandler's Nomination
Latest IPCC Climate Change Report is the Most Sobering Yet.
Federal Leaders All Found Wanting and Out of Touch With Concerns of Canadians
Mr. Mulroney Best Advised to Stifle the Rhetoric and Bluster in the Schreiber Affair.
Bill 45 - Smoking Ban Law Passes Third Reading in Alberta
Harper Moves Fast and Well on Independent Advisor Appointment
Privacy Commissioner Order Contract Disclosure - Stelmach Balks
Albertan's Are Responding to the Oil Sands Survey.
An Inquiry If Necessary but Not Necessarily an Inquiry.
Mulroney Himself Calls for a Public Inquiry into the Schreiber Allegations.
The Enlightened Savage Sends Up Margaret Atwood
Was Prime Minister Harper Really Out-of-the-Loop on the Mulroney/Schreiber Affair?
Harper Distances From Mulroney and Starts a Review Process Based on Schreiber Affidavit.
Coming Back from Blogworld in Las Vegas - Lots to talk About.
Too Much Heat and Not Enough Light on the Royalty Collection Issues
Manning Wants a More Comprehensive Policy Approach in Alberta - and He is Right
What Does Responsible and Sustainable Oil Sands Development Mean to You?
Mr. Harper - Call An Inquiry Into the Mulroney-Schreiber Affair.
Stelmach Accepts New Governance Recommendations for Agencies, Boards and Commissions
New Poll Asks If Stelmach Has Met Public Expectations on Royalties.
Lougheed Endorses Stelmach's Royalty Review Response.
What Political Leadership Qualities and Skills Do We Really Want and Need These Days?
Stelmach Stakes Out His Leadership of the PC Party With His Royalty Review Response
The Energy Industry Credibilty in Alberta is in Shreds.
Thank You to the Expert Panel for the "Our Fair Share" Royalty Review Report.
Stelmach Finds the Balance in the Response to the Royalty Review
When It Comes To Trust and Truth on Royalties - Who Will Albertans Believe?
Premier Stelmach Brought Progressive Conservative Politics Back to Alberta Tonight
What Are Alberta Ed's Royalty Review Options Tomorrow?
Some Thoughts From a Lougheed Cabinet Minister on Royalties
Bill Hunter Speaks Out On the Dr. Dwarkin Incident and the Alberta Royalty Review Report.
This Time an Eastern Business School Prof Warns Albertans over Royalty Rate Increases
Here is a Calgary Guy who Gets It.
Here is Dr. Dwarkin's Apology Letter to Fellow Royalty Review Panel Members
Stelmach' s Royalty Response Coming by the End of October
Cambridge Strategies' Most Recent Column for LaPresse
No Royalty Review Panellist Has Broken Ranks on the Recommendations.
RBC Capital Markets Weigh In On Royalty Review With Same Old Argument
An Armchair Look At Premier Stelmach's Coming Week As He Announces the Royalty Review Decision.
Is Desperation Setting In as Some Try to Discredit the Hunter Royalty Review?
CAPP Incorrectly Claims "Many of the Authors Appear to No Longer Support"...the Royalty Review
More False Assumptions Over Alberta's Royalty Review Report.
The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!
Marathon Oil is Buying Into Alberta - What Are They Thinking?
Oil Sands Project Cost Double and CAPP Accuses the Royalty Review Panel of Using "Incorrect Costs!"
Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry Has Some Public Perception Problems
Warren Buffett Likes Alberta's Oil Sands As An Investment
Stelmach Government Now Admits Concerns About Pace of Development
Danny Williams' Win Has Major Messages for Stelmach
DOB Magazine On-Line Article Shows Insight
TSX Presidents Tries To Reassure Alberta's Energy Sector on Royalties
Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Takes a Position on the Alberta Royalty Review Report.
When It Comes to Alberta's Energy Resources, Whose "Golden Goose" Is it Anyway?
New Poll on Tobacco Control in Alberta Coming Next Week
Debunking Some So-Called Truths on the Royalty Review Report.
New York Analyst Calls Albertans Stupid Over Royalties - Has Not Read the "Our Fair Share" Report
Big Money Meeting Behind Closed Doors Today with Deputy Premier
Report Shows Calgary's Quality of Life is "Brutal"
American Financial Advisor and Business Forecaster Recommends Investing in Alberta's Energy Sector
More Industy Absurdity on Albertan's Resource Ownership and the Royalty Review
Who and What is "www.getitrightalberta.ca"?
Not Everyone In the Oil Patch is Threatening to Leave Alberta
Petro-Canada Send a "Cooler Heads" Letter to Stelmach.
Talisman Says Its Reducing Alberta Investment Too - But Is It Really Due to Royalties?-
As Encana Leaves Alberta, Others Are Moving In!
AG Report Will Be Stelmach's Waterloo or His Trafalgar
Alvarez of CAPP Speaks to the Calgary Chamber on "Our Fair Share."
What Alberta Needs Now is Leadership - Not An Election
Tristone's Rebuttal of "Our Fair Share" is Unpersuasive.
Why Are There So Many Anonymous Comments Blogs?
Tristone Chair Calls Royalty Review Panel "Uneducated"
Hunter and Dunn Have Fixed the Blame - Stelmach Has to Fix the Problem
AG Says the Dept of Energy and Former Ministers Have a Problem
What has the Auditor General Said About Government's Handling of Our Royalties?
Thank You Joe Handley: Its Election Day in the NWT
A Critique of the Energy Sector's Oppostion to the Royalty Review
Neil Waugh and I Agree on EnCana's Bullying Over Royalties
EnCana Agrees with Premier Stelmach and Calls for "Cooler Heads"
EnCana Cash Flow up 55% to over $2.5B at June 2007
Harper on "Nation" - Quebec Style!
EnCana Says It Will Lower Investment If Royalties Rise.
Drilling Contractors Complain Business is Down - Its the Marketplace Not the Royalties
Premier Stelmach's Next Week Will Just as "Interesting" as His Last Week
Gary Mar Goes to Washinton - That is a Good Thing for Alberta.
The Pembina Institute Website Has a Royalty Tracker
Contact Premier Stelmach to Let Your Royalty Concerns Be Known
Albertans Are Sending Messages on the Royalty Review to the Government
TD Reports on the Alberta Economy - More Boom - No Bust
Note to Premier Stelmach: Oil is a Seller's Market
Oil Exec Calls Royalty Review Chair "A Lumberjack"
Link Byfield Wants to Debate the Alberta Royalty Report With Me
A Short History of the Oil Sands Royalty Regime
C.D. Howe Institute Weighs in on the Alberta Royalty Review
Please CBC - Talk to Some Real and Representative Albertans
A Reality Check on Oils Sands Costs and the Impact on Albertans.
Stelmach Heckled at the Empire Club in Toronto
Stelmach Wants More Royalty Review Input and Analysis
Hunter's Royalty Review Is a Tipping Point for Political Change In Alberta!
Memo to Minister Lunn - Firewalls Will Not Stop Pine Beetle.
Here is a Great Blog on the Alberta Royalty Review - "King Ralph Shilling for Big Oil."
Claims of Oil Royalty Review Causing Market Meltdown is Bogus
Does Harper Have Any Sense of Humour?
Oil Patch Fear Mongering is Very Removed From Reality
Please Premier Stelmach - Do Not Delegate Royalty Issue to Energy or Finance
Hunter Royalty Review Reaction Shows Some in the Oil Patch Just Don't Get It!
C.D. Howe Institute Ranks the Best and Worst Elementary Schools in Alberta
Quebec By-Elections Herald Change and Uncertainty
EUB and Royalty Review Reports Coming - A Defining Week for Stelmach
Harper Con's Allegations Against Dion Prove To Be False.
Mayrand of Elections Canada Stands His Ground - Canadians Owe Him Respect
Blogging Tory Dion Allegations Debunked
Dealing With Delusions About a Fall Election in Alberta
More "Veiled Threats" From the Far Right.
Harper Cons Are Feeling the Heat on Quebec Ad Scheme
Dion Announces Policy to Protect Canada's Water
Lazy Lawmakers Cause Judicial and Administrative Activism
Greens Breathing Down the NDP Necks in Ontario Election
Politicians Are Pandering Over "Veiled" Threats.
Denis Ducharme Doesn't Want to Run Again.
Ontario Goes to the Polls - and We Better be Watching What Happens
Alberta Oilsands Production Pressures Increasing.
Does Chandler Have Opposition in Calgary Egmont Nomination?
It is Time to Resolve the Teacher's Unfunded Pension Issue
Stelmach Touches the Brakes and Shifts Gears At the Same Time
Going Nuclear Demands That Albertans Take a Holistic and Integrated Approach
We Live in Exponential Times Update
Give Elections Canada Audit Powers
An Award for Political Honesty and Integrity is Disturbingly Orwellian
Harper Deserves Credit on Mental Health Commission
Wrap-Up of an Interesting Week
Is Harper Fixing the Bank of Canada Appointment Process?
Supreme Court to Hear Aboriginal Claim of How Feds Dealt With Band Monies From Oil and Gas Revenues
Harper's Ad-scam Money Went to Promote Conservative Candidates in Quebec
UNLV Studying the Social Capital Influence of Blogs
Calgary MLA Richard Magnus Announces Retirement From Politics
The Harper Adscam is Heating up
Lessons Learned From Steven Truscott
Congratulations Steven Truscott – too long in coming but Free at last, Free at last!
Is Elections Canada Investigating a Conservative Party "Adscam?"
More Good News On Alberta Tobacco Control
More on Peter Lougheed and the Looming Constitutional Crisis
Last Week of Public Consultation for Albertan's to Have Budget Input.
Economists See Subprime Fiaso and Excessive Debt as a More Serious Problem Than Terrorism
Link Byfield Says the Growing Undecided Voters in Alberta is Good for the Wildrose Party
Clint Dunford Decides to Pack it In
Red Deer's Victor Doerksen Packs it In!
China is Holding Bush by the Short and Curlies
The Jellybean Summit - NAFTA Morphs Into SPP
More Ideas on Libel and the Internet
Bloggers Need to Learn Something About the Legal Limits of Free Speech
Will Peter Lougheed's Comments Set the Alberta-Ottawa Agenda?
In Alberta Lougheed's Warnings Trump the Harper Cabinet Shuffle
Thoughts on Why Ed Stelmach Won the PC Leadership
Why Dinning and Morton Lost the PC Leadership
Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire
What Albertan's Want The Next Election To Be About - Part 2.
What Albertan's Want The Next Election To Be About.
Are the Feds Ignoring the Mountain Pine Beetle Impact in Alberta?
Toffler's Magnificant Metaphor for Institutional Change
Will There be Big Changes in the Alberta Health System?
The 15 Greenest Cities - Canada has one of them
Stemach Government Taking Over Hospital Standards
Alberta Forest Industry Spanks the Feds Over Mountain Pine Beetle Funding
Michael Moore Goes Head to Head With Stephen Colbert
French Government Bans PDAs - For Fear of US Spying
Industry Warns Alberta About Managing Growth
CNN Gets Blitzed by Michael Moore
Sicko's Michael Moore Blitzes CNN's Wolf-man
Some Perspectives on Foreign Investment in Alberta's Oil Sands
China Says Au Revoir Canada - Buenos Dias Venezuela
Can Alberta Handle Oil Sands Growth Demands?
Teenage Smoking on the Decline
VP Cheney Does "Oaf Broadway!"
Bush Pardons Libby! Who Will Pardon Bush?
George Bush's Power Grab: Authorizes Martial Law Provisions
Harper and Day Do the Right Thing With the New RCMP Commissioner Appointment
Is Dick Cheney a Law Unto Himself?
Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign
Bush Grants Lying Libby a Free Pass - Shame!
Wildrose Party States Its View of Alberta in Canada
Disgruntled Alberta Refomers See the Province as the Way to Change Ottawa
Stelmach Steps In on Teacher Pension Issues.
Harper Trade Casey for Comuzzi - What is He Thinking?
Wildrose Party Of Alberta Emerges on the Right
Alberta is Ripe for Change - But What Change Means is Still an Open Question
Stelmach Responds to the Urban Pressure and Expands Cabinet
Name the Alberta Neo-Con Party
Link Byfield Is Promoting a Reform-Like Party for Alberta
Harper Cons Going Around In Circles - at NASCAR
Is the Alberta Advantage Morphing Into the Alberta Angst
Link Byfield's Take on Why Nobody Won the By-elections.
Some Good Things That Are Happening
Some Alberta By-election Results
Stelmach Tells the Edmonton Region to Get its Act Together
How Will Alberta PCs Respond to the By-Election Results?
Alberta Bill 45 "The Tobacco Reduction Act" to be Introduced June 12
Lying Libby Says "Oops, My Bad" and Asks for Leniency
Harper at the G8 is Not Being Honest Nor is He Being a Broker.
Stelmach's Caucus Passes Province Wide Smoking Ban!
This is the Week When a Smoking Ban Policy Happens or Not.
Are Charest and Harper Both Past Their "Best Before" Dates Already?
Tobacco Control Legislation Will Show Stelmach as a New Leader of a Different Government.
Canadian Politics Turns to Farce and the World Wonders Why We are Becoming Global Underachievers
Give Me Prentice Over Harper and Hill Any Day
This Site Allows and Likes Comments but Dislikes Anonymity
Rankled Reformers Resurrecting to Reject Harper
Stelmach Government Moves One Step Closer on Tobacco Control
Premier Stelmach and the Shifting Ground of Alberta Politics
PM Harper Claims Parliamentary Immunity in a Law Suit Against Him as Conservative Party Leader!
Duceppe is a Duffus and More Monday Miscellanea
Hollywood "R" Rating Movies With Smoking Content
Tragic Death Restores Some Faith
Forestry Issues and the Mountain Pine Beetle Update
Pembina Institute Poll Shows Albertans Reject Intensity Targets for GHGs
Notes from the Alberta Progressive Conservative Convention
The Importance of Involving Youth in Political Parties.
ForestEthics Responds to West Fraser on Woodland Caribou
Harper Panders to Quebec and Parliament Goes Weird on the Doan Affair
The Evolution of Ed Stelmach on a Smoking Ban in Alberta
West Fraser and ForestEthics Square off on Caribou Habitat
Workplace Deaths Increasing in Alberta - Improved Literacy is Part of the Solution.
Business, Labour and Health Professionals all Support Hancock's Smoking Ban
RCMP Decide Stockwell Day's Nomination Payoff is Still OK
Who Can We Trust on Climate Change
Harper and His Keystone Kons: Guaranteed Make You Laugh, Cry or Scream
Don't Worry Harper is No Reptilian Kitten Eater.
Hancock Pushing Hard for Smoking Ban In Alberta
Why I Like Elizabeth May - Her Humanity.
Dion Wants the Court Challenges Program Back
Stelmach, Hancock and Oberg's Fingerprints are All Over the Alberta Budget.
Alberta's Budget Looks Like Stelmach is Going "Full Steam Ahead"
Appeal Court Confirms Ander's Conservative Nomination "Improper"
Harper' s Senate Appointment Throws a Bone to His Base.
Democracy is Alive and Well and Growing in Alberta
The Alberta Budget Means the Week Ahead is Going to be Interesting
Alberta Declares a State of Emergency Due to Mountain Pine Beetle
Alberta Can Be Part of the Global Warming Solution and Not Just Part of the Problem
Adapting to the Mountain Pine Beetle in Alberta
Our April 8th Column in LaPresse
Harper Still Falls Short - According to SES Poll Results Today.
Conservative Eye for the Liberal Guy
Climate Change Impact, Adaptations and Vulnerability
Harper's Latest Hoax: His Campaign Promise Over Wait Time Guarantees
Polls Show Canadians Prefer None of the Above for Prime Minister
Let's Hope That Somewhere, Somehow, Harper Sill Has an Agenda
What If Borat Came to Film Mario Dumont's View of Quebec?
The Polls Tell Us Why Harper Will Not Be Going to the Polls - at Least Not Now.
Blog Survey Show Harper Budget Did Not Increase Support for a CPC Majority Government.
How Will Harper Respond to the Changes in Quebec?
Is There a Pattern Forming Around the Harper Cons?
Big Changes Coming in Quebec Tonight
Nova Scotia Warns of "Delusional Calgaria"
Harper's Giveaway Budget Will Not a Majority Government Make
Will the RCMP Investigate Their Boss, the Honourable Stockwell Day?
Delving into Alberta's Democratic Deficit
Charest's Actions Show Quebec's Fiscal Imbalance is a Scam and a Sham
Ander's Nomination Ouster by the Courts for Breach of Party Rules
Ten Reasons Why We Should Not Have a Spring Election
Courts Kill Rob Anders Conservative Acclamation Nomination in Calgary
Stelmach Goes to Albertans for Ideas on GHG Reduction
Quebec Welder Firing is About Safety and Literacy, Not Discrimintion
Stelmach Moves to Stop Misuse of the Courts
Alberta and Quebec are in the Same Fight
Stelmach Wants a Triple-Bottom Line Government in Alberta
Some Speculation on Stelmach's First Alberta Throne Speech
Alberta Is Expected to Do Better on Emissions
Blogs Wary of Harper Majority - Polls Are Back to a Con-Lib Tie
Are You Ready For a Harper Majority Government Next Time?
"We Live in Exponential Times"
PC Leadership CampaignDisclosure Doesn't Cut It!
Stelmach and Hancock Disclose Leadership Campaign Contributions
Alberta's Tobacco Reduction Strategy is in Trouble
Peter Russell Weighs in on Judicial Appointments
"I Read the News Today - Oh Boy!"
Stelmach Will Release Minister's and EA's Expenses Accounts
Al Gore Wins an Oscar - Will a Nobel Be Next?
Premier Stelmach and Dr. Suzuki Need to Sit Down Over a Beer
Are Pollsters Being Abused by MSM?
The Public Conversation Has Started on the Anti Terrorism Act...YES!
Stephen Harper is Starting to Remind Me of Richard Nixon
Harper Gets to Surge in a Poll...Bush is Still Waiting to Surge in Iraq
Could the Week of March 20 - 26 Change Canada?
A Perfect Image of Harper's Preferred Supreme Court
Diefenbaker Was Right...Polls Are for Dogs!
Is Harper More Audacious Than Authentic?
RCMP Get Their Man - But Only One!
Is Harper's Justice Review Meddling Forfeiting Our Freedoms?
If the Judicial Review Committe is not Broken Why is Harper "Fixing" It?
Judicial Review Process Should Diminish Politics not Facilitate Politics
Is Harper's ecoTrust Really a Fiscal Imbalance Fund?
Harper is Now Messing with the Justice System...and He is Starting to Scare Me!
Harper Does a Muroney and Sets Out to Buy a Quebec Election
Dion or Harper - Who is the Greenest?
Leadership Report Card Poll Shows Harper is Growing into the Job
Harper and Charest Meet the Press Tomorrow!
Watch for Graham Thomson's Reporting from Afghanistan
Harper Human Rights and Organ Harvesting in China
Harper Attack Ads Didn't Do the Job on Dion
Who Should Do What in a Progressive Canada?
Stelmach's GHG Reduction Plans for Alberta is in the Works
Alberta Firewall Guy Clarifies Equalization Payments
It's Not About Politics. It's About the Planet
Hancock Meets Clement; Renner Meets Baird and Boutilier Briefs Stelmach
Alberta's Leadership on Eco Solutions
Dion's Doings and a Rebutal of the Cons Attack Ads.
Old Time Alberta Cons Still Angst over NEP and Threaten Separation
Prediction: Al Gore Wins a Nobel and an Oscar in 2007
Candidate Obama's Dirty Little Secret...He's a Smoker!
Tom Olsen Goes to the Dark Side
More "aTacky Ads" - But Now They are Funny!
Climate Change: Waking Up and Catching Up!
Albertans Resoundingly Approve Smoking Bans
Klein Criticizes Harper - Is There Trouble in Tory Land?
OMIGOD! Even the French Have Banned Smoking!
A New Poll on a Smoking Ban Coming Soon.
Is Buying Political Access Becoming an Epidemic?
There are some Clever Remixes on the Tacky Ads
Harper and Layton: Alliance or Dalliance?
Will the Alberta PC Government Change Before Albertan's Change the Government?
Liberals Run Negative Attack Ads Too!
Manning Advises Against Extreme Politics - Is Harper Listening?
The Heat is On Over Smoking in Public Places.
Marv Moore Praises Hancock's Efforts for a Smoking Ban
Alberta and Continental Energy Supply Issue Heats Up
Harper Cabinet Rates a 50/50 Approval in Recent Poll
Dion Says the Greens Should be in the TV Debates
Video of Canadian Troops Engaged in Battle
Alberta is Now a Geo-Political Energy Focus
Hancock is Staying the Course on Smoking Issues
What is Stephen Harper Thinking?
Dion's Visit and Record Shows He Gets Alberta
The "Accountability" of the Harper Cons
More Commentary on Alberta in Canada
Ambrose Survives Cabinet Shuffle Smelling Like a Rose
Stephen "Kermit" Harper Goes Green
Too Many Unanswered Questions on Goverment Credit Card Incident
Harper Shuffles Big Time Hoping to Buy Some Time
Alberta's Economy is "Moderating."
Canada - We Have a Horse Race.
Garth Turner and Michael Chong - Men of Principle in Politics