Sitemap - 2008 - Ken Chapman: Citizenship Matters

Will Harper Decline in 2009 Like Bush Did in 2008?

Alberta's Tobacco Ban Legislation is Working

Gas Prices Are Low BUT a Crunch is Coming

Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World

More "Truthiness" From the Harper-Cons.

Reflections on a Black Swann in Alberta Politics

Blackett Sets the Record Straight

Playing For Change: Song Around the World

Busy Days on Oil Sand Development Issues.

Participate in What is Happening in Poznan Poland on Climate Change

Ignatieff Wins Liberal Leadership By Attrition.

Lets Get Away From the Political Extremes and Move to the Radical Middle

Rick's Rant - Dec. 2, 2008

Maddow: Oh Canada...

Harper Gets a Reprieve. Now What?

Harper's Blind Ambition Jeopardizes the Unity of the Country

Harper's Hidden Agenda Will Happen If House Prorogues Just for Him to Keep Power.

Unloaded copper CwoB 2008

Harper Has a Minority - Not a God Given Right to Govern

Harper the Bully Overplays His Political Hand

Harper Folds on FU for Party Funding

Stephen Hawking Comes to Canada - Why Not Alberta?

CRTC-SuperNet-Telus and the Plight of Rural Alberta Connectivity

Is Harper the New Mr. Dithers?

Alberta's Royalty Breaks Should Be Conditional on Reclamation Clean Ups

Harper is Sounding Progressive Again - But Can We Trust Him?

Masters of the Universe Icons of Commerce Prove to be Just Greedy Bastards at the End of the Day

Harper Dances with Deficits

Cannon Speaks About Dealing Aberta's Oil - Does Harper Know?

On The Map with Avi Lewis: Alberta Oil Sands

Sen. Barack Obama discusses net neutrality on MTV

Is Harper Hapless to Deal With the Economic Crisis?

Alberta's Environment Minister Renner Visits Fort Chipewyan

Obama Launches New Website on Transition

Harper Kills National Portrait Gallery & I'm OK With That

Alberta Liberal Party Leadership PSA

Rural Alberta Broadband Access - More Than Connectivity. It's About Equality and Equity

American Political Culture Past and Present. What is the Future?

Some Positive Steps by Stelmach on the Social Infrastructure Deficit

Harper's Cabinet Looks Good!

5 More Friends

Harper Meets First Ministers Nov 10 - Expect Budget Cuts!

Confessions of a Political Blogger

Is Harper Cooling on "Get Tough On Crime"?

Anchorage Daily News Backs Obama - Not Palin

A Nightmare Video About Not Voting

Save Democracy - Lie to a Pollster

Dr. O'Connor Cancer Documentary on Oscar Short List

Canada's Wireless World Gets Weirder.

Premier Stelmach - Alberta Has a Social Infrastructure Deficit Too!

Old Fashioned Telephone Lines and the SuperNet Last Mile Solution

Is Jaffer on His Way to the Senate?

CTV Decides to Defend Themselves on the Dion Interview NOW? SPARE ME!

Re-Engaging Culture Creatives in Public Policy Design

Canadian Election - The Daily Show

Alberta Includes Midwifery Under Health Care Services - Finally

The MSM Seems Fixated on the Dion Demise While the World is in Turmoil

Is Harper Changing Priorities?

Who Would You Choose for President?

Harper Get Close but Can't Close the Deal with Canadians.

Vote Your Values and Please Take Your Democratic Responsibilities Seriously.

Don't Get Diverted by the Spin Doctors - Delve into the Real Issues

Trends, Value Drivers and a Mood for Change is in the Air!

Pollsters Predict Harper is Back in Majority Territory.

Harper's Empathy Deficit

Environment Site Endorses Liberal Wachowich in Edmonton Centre.

Time for Alberta Strategic Voters to Stop Harper

Stelmach to Harper - Stay Out of Alberta's Business!

Harper Admits to Being "Upfront" on War Costs.

230 Canadian Economists Say Harper is Wrong on Climate Change

Liberal Ads Top YouTube

The Election Trends Are Changing in the Home Stretch

May Disses Duffy After the Debates

What's Missing From Harper's Late and Light Election Platform?

Harper's Campaign Platform is Not Just Disappointing - It is Disasterous.

Don't Trust the Polls - Remember How Wrong They Were in 2006

HARPER Continues to Fall From Grace on the Economy

Do Conservatives Care About the Youth Vote?

Harper is Hurting Alberta

Harper Retreats From "Do Nothing" to "Do Very Little Too Late."

Harper Fiddles As the Economy Burns

Post-Debate Poll Shows a Glimmer of Hope for Dion

Stephen Harper's Canada in 60 seconds

Stephen Harper Is George Bush and John McCain.

Harper is Indifferent to the Emerging Economic Crisis Impact on Canadians

Don't Vote

Not a Good Week for Harper

Dion's Right - the Debate Winner was Canada.

Sustainable Oil Sands Development - An Alberta Challenge

Business Ethics & Greenwashing

Rick Mercer Report Election Kids

Is There More to the Conservative's Speech Plagaierism Than Meets the Eye?

Craddock Political Commercial #3 - DEREGULATION

Does Anyone Know the REAL Stephen Harper In This Election?

Size Matters - But Do Pollsters Care?

Harper's Speech Writer Gone. Guilty of Plagiarism. More Questions About the Conservative's Values.

JIm Ford is Still the One for Edmonton Sherwood Park

Polls Show 51% Oppose a Harper Majority - Let the Strategic Voting Begin

$700B Bailout! Is It A Deal or No Deal?

Harper Keeps Media Away From Candidate Cadman...Chuck's Widow

Harper's "Drive By Smearing" of Alberta Does Not Sit Well

Harper Takes on Alberta's Natural Resource Rights Over Oil Sands.

Harper "Achingly Close" To a Majority

More Canadians Believe in Big Foot Than Politicians Will Keep Election Promises

Climate Change Deliberative Democracy Event a Success!

Culture in Danger (Culture en Péril, with subtitles)

Former Fan Passes on Palin

Jim Ford Is The Best Choice for Edmonton Sherwood Park

Too Many Turfed Candidates From Too Many Political Parties

Is Harper's "Tough On Crime" Playing the Race Card?

Deliberative Democracy Forum on Climate Change in Alberta

Comedian Chris Craddock Political Commercial Number 2 - The Environment

Why Does Harper Hate Ordinary Working Artists?

Alberta Business Confidence Still Strong but Declining

Harper's Youth Justice Platform is DiscriminaTORY

Why Do Some Politicians Think We Have to Choose Between the Environment and the Economy?

Conservative Candidates Canned for Character Flaws.

Is Harper Against Free Speech and Freedom of the Press?

Harper Hype on Green Shift Impact Exposed as MISLEADING

Happy Birthday Omar Khadr

New EKOS Poll Has Some Fascinating Results.

Don't Ask Harper to Fire Ritz - Defeat Him AND Harper TOO - at the Polls!

The Enlightened Savage Calculates the True Cost of Afghan Conflict

Harper is Taking Alberta Seats For Granted.

A Progressive Conservative Senator Speaks up on Climate Change

Time for a Reality Check on Palin and Obama

Former Reformer Rips Harper a New One

If Anyone is Too Risky to Rule Over Canada It's Stephen Harper

Cherniak on Politics - Is There Layton/Harper Collusion?

The Canadian Voter is "Up for Grabs" - Nik Nanos

Lies Our Father Figure - Stephen Harper - is Telling Us.

Chris Craddock On Stephane Dion

Harper's Policy on Afghanistan - Nothing New! How Come?

The Greens Get to Debate. Harper and Layton Fold. Canadians Win!

The Internet is a Political Game Changer.

Stelmach to Harper - Stop the Attack Ads! They are Offensive.

Who is Really Responsible for Excluding the Greens From the Television Debates?

Congratulations CBC for Your ON-LINE Election Site.

Day One: Harper Says He's Mr. Rogers and Layton Says He's a Canuck Obama. LOL!

Harper May Not Be Breaking His Election Law But He is Breaking Another Promise

Sarah Palin and Alaskan Independence Party (AIP)

Alberta Socialist Meets Alaska Separatist

Three Cabinet Ministers Resign on Harper...Here is Why.

Harper Will Have to Blow Smoke at the Governor General and NOT Say Why He Really Wants an Election

Palin Proved Herself

Sarah is Palin' and McCain is Too!

If Emerson is Leaving Politics He Should Take Harper With Him

More Palin for VP talk

Harper Denies The Economy is Heading For Trouble and is Shifting His Share of the Blame.

Re: An Election! Harper is Entitled to His Own Opinion But Not His Own Facts.

Imagine the Power of the SuperNet in Your Home - From Your Phone Line

Pressure on Wireless Business is Mounting

Harper's Base Turns On Him - and For Good Reason

Harper Should Resign and Dion and Layton Should Form a Coalition Government Until October 2009.

Buffett Not Investing In Oils Sand - Not Yet Anyway!

The Grandinite Gives Some Sound Oil Sands Investment Advice to Buffett

Big Telcos Are Driving Me Crazy - How About You?

FCC Has Teeth to Fine Internet Service Provider Abusers - Does the CRTC?

"The Right Call" Column in the Green Issue of Alberta Venture

Buffett Buzz on the Oil Sands is Building...Better Fasten Your Seat Belts Alberta

Swann Runs for the Alberta Liberal Leadership

More Oil Sands Issues Get Added to the Mix and Start Heating Up

Gate and Buffett Get the Buzz on the Oil Sands

The Political Ground is Going to be Shifting Between Ottawa, Washington and Alberta

Suncor CEO Rick George Joins the Blogosphere.

The Ugly Face of Radical Conservatism

Alberta's Senior Civil Servant - Ron Hicks - Calls it Quits

Big Tobacco Fined $1.5 Billion for Smuggling

Harper The Bottom Feeder to Dion: "Fish or Cut Bait."

Does Big Telco Really Want To Charge for Internet Site Access?

Edward Greenspan Also Questions if There is Competition in Cell Phone Services

Leonard Cohen International Festival Gala is a HIT!

Is Big Telco Taking Canadians for Granted?

Dave Taylor Announces as a Liberal Leadership Hopeful Tomorrow?

Dallaire Takes on Harper Over Khadr's GITMO Detention

Changing Democracy in Alberta is About Citizenship - Not Partisanship

Bring Omar Khadr Home Prime Minister Harper

Facts Behind Harper's Libel Action Get Murkier

Stelmach Goes Green - Big Time With Big Money.

Canadians Are Becoming More Unsure of the Harper Conservatives Ability to Manage the Key Issues.

People Need to Read Dion's Green Shift Plan BEFORE They Comment

"The Right Call" Column on Ethical Issues for July Is Published

Don't Let Bad Politicians Play Politics With the Planet

Canada Day Message 2008

The Dion Green Shift Policy Conversation Amongst Canadians is Starting

Torqued Story Claims Enviroment Falls to #3 Issue - Balderdash

Alberta Liberal Leadership Hopefuls Line Up On the Left.

ERCB Gets Tough on Tailing Ponds - 500 Ducks Did Not Die in Vain.

Taft Throws In the Towel.

I'm Betting Kevin Taft Intends to Stay On as Leader of the Alberta Liberals.

Is Harper Trying to Intimidate the Judiciary?

George Carlin Checks Out and Will Be Missed.

Dion Shifts From Neutral to Green - Harper Still in Reverse.

Dion's Carbon Tax-Shift Policy Will Give Canadians a Positive Choice for the Future

Looks Like Harper's Negative Ad Campaign Is Backfiring?

Is Harper Afraid of An Election?

The Hero's Behind the Residential School Apology

Back to the Odds and Sods of Conservative Politics.

The Apology for Canada Is Meaningful and Well Done. Will It Be Well Received?

Harper's Greasy Little Spot Ads Backfire!

Humanity Lobotomy - Second Draft

Harper Goes Neo-Republican With an Ad Campaign Based on Truthiness

Issues on MLA Pay Raises Get Confusing and Are Not Going Away.

Don't Just Complain About Politician's Pay - Act Like a Citizen and Make Them Earn It!

Are the Harper Cons Capable to Govern Canada?

Claims of Doctored Harper - Cadman Tapes Undermines Canadian's Confidence in the Harper Cons

Obama and Clinton Have Each Made An Impression - Neither Has Made History --- NOT YET!

Harper Cons Claim Libs "Doctored" Cadman Tapes

Alberta Venture and the Ethics of Executive Pay.

Is Harper on the Right Track or is He a Divisive Force in Canada?

Dion Demands the RCMP Engage in Bernier Bungling

Pay Politicians Well - and Pay the "Little People" Better!

Fast Life in Alberta is Creating Serious Social Costs

Mulroney Recalled to Commons Ethics Committee

Harper's Old-School Politics of Command and Control Could be His Demise.

Power and Influence

Gomery Not Amused - Harper Delays Mulroney-Schreiber Inquiry

Alberta Venture Column on Ethical Issues in Business

Updating the Public Record.

Bernier Resigns - Call in the RCMP Mr. Harper!

Why Harper is Afraid of an Election

Harper Caught in More Political Hypocrisy

Harper Wins the Most Secretive Award

Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Clinton-Obama Assassination

Hillary Clinton Assassination Comment Kennedy Obama Shocking

STUDENTS: A CHALLENGE FOR YOU

Lots to Applaud in the Alberta Land Use Framework

More Provinces Are Pushing For Limits to Free Speech

BC Government Limits Free Speech - Shame!

Will Bernier to Get the Boot in a Cabinet Shuffle?

Stephen Harper - THE Small Man of Confederation.

Elections Should Be About More Free Speech - Not Less!

Alberta's Bold Move on Health Care Governance

Americans Realize Polar Bears are Threatened!

More Dead Ducks - This Time it is Saskatchewan's Turn

Fort McMurray Folks Feeling Fragile.

Courts Reject Imperial's Kearl Lake Oil Sands Project!

Humans Cause 40% of Wildfires

Who is Responsible for Land Reclamation in Alberta?

Alberta Election Reform Should Not Limit Free Speech

Minister's Biker Girlfriend is Not a Security Risk

Western Canadians - Including Albertans - Are Moving to the Center.

Why Are Alberta Opposition Parties Blaming Voters the Election Results?

Syncrude Apologizes - Alberta Investigates - Albertans Expect More

Looks Like Albertan's Are Back to Being "Blue-Eyed Arabs"

Dying Ducks - The New Symbol of the Oil Sands Spells Disaster for the Alberta Energy Sector

Why Can't the Calgary Health Authority Live Within a Budget When Edmonton's Can?

Tailing Ponds and the Tale of Two Leaders: Stephen Harper and Ed Stelmach

Imagine No New Tailing Ponds for Oil Sands

It is Time Alberta Ramped Up Tailing Pond Reclamation Requirements

Could Dying Ducks in Toxic Tailing Ponds Provide a Watershed for Oil Sands Development?

Nice To See Alberta Ministers Musing About New Ideas in Public

Is Alberta Suspending the Poisoning Wolves Just Because it Looks Bad?

Developmental Disability Sector in Alberta Still Waiting for a Solution - The Budget Offered Nada

Harper's Hypocrisy is Trying the Patience of Canadians

Alberta Budget Not Likely To Introduce Big Changes - But Next Year Will Be Different.

Engaging Albertan's in Climate Change

Thoughts On Wolves, Mankind and Nature

Stelmach's Throne Speech Addresses Lots of Priority Concerns

What Is Wrong With Canadian Politics?

Canadians Don't Think Politicians Debate Important Issues Well.

Laurie Blakeman Was Like "Donna" Quixote in Her Chase for the Speaker's Chair

Jim Prentice Kills Satellite Deal - The Right Thing for the Right Reasons

IMF Weighs In on Pending Global Credit Crunch - It is Not Pretty!

I Read Dunn and Valentine and I Still Don't Know If Albertans Are Getting Their Fair Share of Royalties

Financial "Masters of the Universe" Are They Committing Crimes Against Humanity?

Notes From London

Hillary Picks Hubris and Hyperbole Over Honesty and Honour

Bill Richardson Tells Us Why He Endorses Obama

Alberta is Ready for High Speed Rail

"A More Perfect Union" by Barack Obama

The Green Party is Becoming a Political Force

Alberta Certifies Its FIRST Oil Sands Site Reclamation - Yahoo!

Introducing the Honourable Heather Klimchuk

Stelmach Signals His Inner Circle with Committee Appointments

albertatory Has a Great Review of the Stelmach Cabinet

Stelmach's Cabinet Is Both Progressive and Conservative.

Spec Stories On Stelmach's Cabinet Are Spin - Not News.

Wolf Kill Draws Wrath of Albertans.

Memo to Premier Stelmach - Alberta's International and Intergovernmental Department Needs a Very Strong Minister

Revisiting Citizenship and Cynicism

Low Voter Turnout Will Not Be Fixed by Tinkering

Federal Court Agrees With Stelmach - Environment Trumps Economy

Stelmach Still a Target of the Energy Sector

Stelmach is Right the Environment Does Trump the Economy

Ed Stelmach's Astonishing Election Results

Thanks To All Those Candidates Who Ran and Some Advice to Those Who Won.

CalgaryGrit: Stelmach's Environment Minister calls for a new NEP - I DON'T THINK SO!

Want the "Final Word" on the Alberta Election Results - It's In the Stars!

Edmonton Riverview Survey Shows BIG UNDECIDED NUMBERS

"All I am Saying is Give Ed a Chance."

Harper Should Immediately Call for an Inquiry Over the Cadman-Con Affair.

The Con-Cadman Affair Goes to the Character of the Conservative Party

When You Woke Up This Morning Alberta - What Was On Your Mind?

Hancock Supports a Health and Wellness Foundation for Albertans

Leger Poll Results are Reassuring but Not Conclusive of the Final Election Outcome

The "Pundits Corner" Misses the Mark on How to Measure "Excitement" in Elections These Days.

Pembina Institute Releases the Candidate Survey Findings.

Stelmach Says Environment Trumps Economy - It is About Time.

Partial Oil Sands Moratorium Has Industry and ENGO Support!

Debate Uncovers Personal Animosities Amongst the Alberta Political Leaders.

Dave Hancock's Blog Post on the Environment

The Green's George Read Circumvents the MSM and Gets His Message Across.

Alberta Debate Results: #1 Stelmach, #2 Don't Know, #3 Taft

Thoughts and Theories on the Alberta Leader's Debate

Is George Read What Albertans Are Looking For in Their Next Leader?

Stelmach Responds to the Misleading Attack Ads...Good For Him!

Poll Shows Taft's Election in Edmonton Riverview is No Shoe-In

Is Ralph Klein Calling for an Unrestricted North American Continental Energy Strategy - in the Middle of an Election?

Special Interest Groups Are Busy About "Surveying" the Candidates.

Alberta Greens Nominate More Candidates Than Wildrose Alliance But Are Cut Out of the TV Debate! What a Dumb Move!

What Question Do You Want to Ask Alberta's Party Leaders in the Debate?

Alberta's Election is Half Over - Not Much Has Happened - Yet!

Yes We Can

Stelmach Gets Tough on Crime and in an Enlightened Way.

Stelmach Is Dealing With the Alberta Social Infrastrucutre Deficit

All Candidates Will be Polled on Important Oil Sands Issues

Staff in Red Deer Group Home For Disabled Albertans Goes Union Seeking a Livable Wage - in Alberta of all Places

PC Parks Policy Great for Edmonton But Could Have More New Parks and a Focus on Wildlife Habitat

Alberta: Get Rich or Die Trying Meets the Rhino Party

Concerned Christians Canada Are Allegedly Launching a Human Rights Complaint for Mr. Chandler

Wildrose Alliance Platform Reads Like it Came From the Rhinos

Worthy Websites if the Environment is Your Alberta Ballot Question

Dave Hancock Starts Candidate Blog - Other Candidates Starting Too.

Daveberta and Ken Chapman Get Ready to Rumble on CITYTV Next Friday Morning

Come on CBC - You're Too Good for This Tripe

Daveberta Cleans UP at 2007 Canadian Blog Awards

All Party Campaigns Open With More "Oops" Than Opportunities

Can We Start to Deal With Our Serious Issues in This Election?

CO2 Capture and Sequestration - An Idea Whose Time Has Come in Alberta

Enlightened Savage Strikes Again!

Who Says Goodbye After Super Tuesday?

It's Election Time in Alberta and the Future is the Issue.

Damn Good Throne Speech Ed Stelmach!

Wildrose Alliance Party President Quits - On the Eve of an Election!

Suncor Invests in Alberta While Some Other "Alpha Oil" Types Choose to Intimidate.

Stelmach is Heading for the Hustings on Monday February 4th

Citizens and Cynicism - Post Redux

Alberta Innovation Fund Invests $2M for Enhanced Rural SuperNet Access

Which Presidential Candidate Reflects Your Values?

Grumpy Alberta Voters Are Volatile On the Eve of an Election

No Reason Today Why Harper Should Not Govern Until November 2009

Obama Win in South Carolina and is Proving That He is a Reason to Believe

Oil Sands Survey to be Released Friday.

Poll Shows Stelmach is Strong but Darkening Clouds Exist

One of the Best Blog Posts I Have Ever Read

Wild Alliance Party Rejects Chandler as a Director

The Wild Alliance is a "Reality" and a Farce to be Dealt With.

Denis Wins Calgary Egmont.

The Mythosphere and Stelmach's Washington Speech on Oil Sands

Harper Mimics Musharraf and Fires Linda Keen

Michigan Primary Was BORRRRRing!!!

Premier Stelmach Goes to Washington.

What Will Happen in the Presidential Primaries This Week?

The Edmonton Journal Starts a Pod Cast

The Ethics Committee Should Stand Down and Lets Get On With the Public Inquiry

Kudos to Harper in His Handling of the Johnston Report and Calling a Public Inquiry

Three Candidates in Calgary Egmont PC Nomination Race

Thank You Linda Keen and Sheila Fraser For Protecting Us From our Government.

Daveberta Punk's Premier Ed. I Love it!

Lessons From A New Hampshire Primary

Deconstructing Licia Corbella on Ed Stelmach

Is CNN's Political Coverage Changing for the Better - Or Is It Just Me?

Facts and Figuring About the Wildrose-Alliance Party

Obama is About to Make History and Become the Next President of the U.S.A.

Influential Citizens Worldwide See Big Business As a Problem.

Alberta's Wildrose and Alliance Parties Looking At Merger!

Keith Olbermann Buries Rudy Giuliani With Truth