Alberta Diary: Preston Manning is no saint, as secretive Carleton University...
Preston Manning and his then-protégé Stephen Harper back in the day. Below: Mr. Manning as he now appears (United Church Observer photo): Alberta premier E.C. Manning, Preston Manning’s father; Mr....
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Yes Minister MacKay! Perfesser Dave explains the French role...
One of our heroic French allies, armed with a bassoon, holds off a Russian soldier near Niagara on the Lake some time during the War of 1812 with the Russians and the Taliban. Below: Perfesser Dave;...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: As goes California, so goes the nation!
The Beach Boys, now, and, below, then. Below them, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, then and now. As goes California, so goes Canada? As goes California, so goes the nation – the nation in the normal...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: canada needs national leadership on...
TweetIf there ever was a time for Canada to show national leadership on the energy file, now is it. Why Nexen sale can’t be allowed Diane Francis, Financial Post · Jul. 28, 2012 The proposed takeover...
View ArticleCalgary Grit: Liberal Leadership Races Through History: Prologue
George Brown helped found both the Liberal Party and the Globe & Mail. Brown may very well have been the first-ever “anonymous Liberal insider”. Between now and the Liberal leadership convention...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: About Stephen Harper’s ambassadorial timeshare: maybe he...
Canadian and British Joint-Embassy diplomats work out their timeshare arrangements. Below: The young Stephen Harper on the day he missed his history lecture after lingering too long over Atlas...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: On contrasting treatment
BigCityLib comments on the Cons’ hasty backtracking over Helen MacMurchy. But I find it particularly interesting to note the contrast between their treatment of MacMurchy and their handling of John A....
View ArticleEclectic Lip: Newsflash: Canadian PM’s American Idol supports Stephane...
Note: for non-Canadian readers (or, indeed for Canadian readers who don’t follow politics) Stephane Dion was the milquetoast who led the Liberal Party of Canada to its then-worst-ever federal election...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: What To Do About John, Eh?
Bernie Farber had a piece in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday re our nation’s first Prime Minister: …Sir John A. Macdonald was also a racist who disdained Chinese rail workers, the very same men who helped...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Farber Vs. Gwyn On John A.
From Bernie’s piece in The Star:The latest hullaballoo around renaming Toronto’s Union Station after Sir John A. Macdonald should have and could have been avoided from the start. It simply boggles the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Red in Central Canada, blue in Ottawa an immutable rule that...
Is Justin Trudeau finished because Kathleen Wynne just won in Ontario, like the mainstream media’s pundits are telling you? Don’t be too sure! (Say, as one Twitter commenter asked, who is that old man...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Who Knew? Tory Poster Boy, Sir John A., Was a Right...
They never taught this stuff when I was in high school. Arlene Ewert writes in today’s Victoria Times Colonist that our veneration of Sir John A. Macdonald is undeserved and seriously misplaced....
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On John A. & Clearing The Plains
Since James Daschuk’s Clearing The Plains came out last year Canadian’s have been forced to reassess John A. MacDonald’s place in the pantheon of Canadian heros. Among a fair bit of back-and-forth on...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Independence Day: an excellent moment to remember Stephen...
PHOTOS: Today is Independence Day in the United States, and also in Texas, where this photo was snapped. Below: Stephen Harper, not a Tory, unlike John A. Macdonald, below him, who was. Below both of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Whatever happens next, Justin Trudeau has brought the...
PHOTOS: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau addresses his supporters in Edmonton this morning. Below: Mr. Trudeau’s supporters line up in the pale morning light to get into his rally; Mr. Trudeau greets...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Worthwhile Canadian initiative … Rona Ambrose said to be...
PHOTOS: Outgoing interim federal Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose listens seriously to someone in this Government of Canada shot found lingering on the Internet. Below: Ms.
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Something useful for the premiers to talk about: the...
PHOTOS: Edmonton’s stately old Macdonald Hotel, named for the prime minister of the same name and site of Canada’s premiers’ annual summertime beanfest this week.
View ArticleAlberta Politics: ‘Has Trudeau committed treason?’ The answer is no and the...
Donna Kennedy-Glans, by all accounts an intelligent and accomplished Alberta Conservative, recently posted and pinned a Tweet asking, “Has Trudeau committed treason?” If her intention
View ArticleAlberta Politics: If it seems as if Canada’s Conservatives have lost it,...
“Huge pothole on #StAlbert Trail right now! This is a preview of Canada’s future if Justin Trudeau is re-elected as prime minister, as he continues to implement his terrible anti-automobile agenda.”...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Happy Canada Day! In a troubled world, Canada stands out as...
Happy Canada Day! One way or another, our Canada always seems to end up on every list of the world’s Top Ten economies. Granted, we are almost inevitably No. 10 of 10, which may leave the intensely...
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