THIS BLOG HAS MOVED TO A NEW ADDRESS: HTTP://DAVEBERTA.CA Five years and two months since this blogger blog was born, I have finally taken the big step of migrating my blog to a new home. As o...
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"...Dave Cournoyer isn't some obscure fat frat boy with a sticky-up haircut." - Neil Waugh (Edmonton Sun)
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Premier ED STELMACH spoke to an audience of over 300 staff and students at the University of Alberta this afternoon at an event hosted by the Campus Conservative Club . I have seen Premier Stelm...
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Many Edmontonians who use Twitter might have noticed that Global Edmonton News anchor LYNDA STEELE recently deleted her Twitter account @lyndasteele . Ms. Steele was an avid and engaged contri...
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Lieutenant Governor NORMAN KWONG 's replacement is expected to be announced this afternoon in Ottawa: > "CALGARY - Decorated Canadian peacekeeper Col. DONALD ETHELL > will be > nam...
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- DAVID AKIN recently sat down with Liberal Senator TOMMY BANKS for a chat on Senate reform. - Alberta has held Senate elections in 1989 , 1998 , and 2004 , and is expected to hold a Senate ...
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With recent political contribution disclosures showing the PC Party holding ground, maybe the Wildrose Alliance groundswell in Calgary is just a bunch of hot air ...
This weekend some friends and I began watching the mini-series From the Earth to the Moon . The HBO mini-series ran from April to May 1998 and focused on the Apollo program that led to the first...
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I have been meaning to write about this for a couple of weeks. The Edmonton International Airport recently launched a semi-guerilla marketing campaign to convince Edmontonians and northern Albe...
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It probably would have been more effective if they had kept their up the tongue-in-cheek theme, but before it devolves into a fairly predicable attack ad, this April Fools Day joke from the US Re...
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They may have dropped to the fourth largest party in the Legislative Assembly in 2010, but the NDP are the first out of the starting gate to nominate a candidate for the 2012 election. The EDMO...
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- DON BRAID has all the latest news on the Highwood PC revolt , including the letter sent by Constituency officials to PC Party President BILL SMITH. - Sometime campaign manager DON LOVETT is ...
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I bet there are some people who were wishing this letter would have just been a cruel April Fools joke: > In a blistering, unprecedented letter to Premier Ed Stelmach, a key > Progr...
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For many reasons, so much about politics in Alberta's Legislative Assembly reminds me of the above scene from The West Wing . I used to believe that the toughest job in the Alberta cabinet wa...
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Following Mayor STEPHEN MANDEL 's recent announcement that he will be running for a third-term in office, I have a couple of quick thoughts on the October Municipal election : 1) A CAKE-WALK TH...
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QUESTION: Mayor Stephen Mandel has announced his intentions to seek re-election in October 2010. If the election were held today, would you vote for Mandel? Results: Yes: 64%, No: 36% QUESTION...
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Edmonton Journal columnist SCOTT MCKEEN is reporting via Twitter that Mayor STEPHEN MANDEL is expected to announce whether or not he will run for re-election in the October 18, 2010. Mayor ...
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Word on the street is that Alberta NDP Executive Director SANDRA HOUSTON is resigning to pursue an job in Islamabad, Pakistan involving women and democracy. Ms. Houston has held the position for...
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In his most recent blog post and column in the Saint City News , DAVID CLIMENHAGA (aka Perfesser Dave) pointed out five main challenges that the new Alberta Party faces in becoming relevant ...
http://daveberta.blogspot.com/2010/03/david-climenhagas-top-five-paths-to.html
While speaking to the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties this week, Premier ED STELMACH confirmed the obvious when defending his government's decision to increase the n...
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Earlier this week, I posted the poll-by-poll results from the 2008 provincial election for Calgary and Edmonton, and (once again thanks to reader ALAN HALL) posted below are the 2008 results ...
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I am speechless... and unsure how I missed this until now. CALGARY-FORT MLA WAYNE CAO sings on YouTube... could it be the next trolololololo ?
An NDP letter writing campaign to change the name of a northern riding to NOTLEY-CENTRAL PEACE, at least two messages sent from a Blackberry, and a hand-written congratulatory note from Minister...
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- New polls from Angus-Reid (Wildrose: 42%, PC: 27%, Liberal: 19%, NDP 9%, Other 3%) and Environics (PC: 34%, Wildrose: 30%, Liberal: 23%, NDP 10%). Calgary Grit has more on these polls. - Ac...
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The threat of proposed school closures in inner city Edmonton has once again riled opposition MLAs into a frenzy on the floor of the Legislative Assembly . Declining student enrollment has led t...
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