It seems entirely appropriate that we’re in the midst of a provincial election on Family Day. Those of you who are really old (like me) will remember that Family Day originated duing the 1989 election campaign. Let’s see if this sounds familiar….
Mason has a point (or at least the start of one)
NDP leader Brian Mason is proposing an end to corporate and union donations to political parties in Alberta. Mason is pitching this as something that would eliminate (or at least reduce) corruption in Alberta.
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Searching for Peter Lougheed
I’m not ordinarily in agreement with Lorne Gunter, the political columnist from the Edmonton Journal, but I thought he diagnosed the election and the mood of the province correctly in a recent column.
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Good Reading – The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar
Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang’s book on Afghanistan is a timely contribution to the debate on Canadian foreign and defence policy.
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Best Prime Minister Since Pearson?
If you haven’t seen Gordon Gibson’s Globe and Mail essay about the best Canadian PM since Lester Pearson, you can read it here. Gibson argues that Brian Mulroney wins the prize as best post-Pearsonian PM. It’s pretty clear, though, that it’s not an easy call.
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Ontario MMP referendum
Matthew Soberg Shugart, one of my favorite electoral systems specialists, and certainly my favorite electoral systems blogger (it’s a small club) has written a great blog post about the referendum and MMP in Ontario.
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