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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Rocky Election Start for Ed Stelmach
Ed Stelmach’s first week during the campaign has been rocky, if the media coverage is any indication.
The start of the Alberta election should have been an opportunity to showcase the government’s accomplishments in the last 12 months. Instead, Ed Stelmach got questions about the coinciding election date with the third anniversary of the Maythorpe killing of four RCMP officers. What was reported were speculations about insensitivity or incompetence.
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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Submit Your Questions for an Interview with Major General (Ret) Lewis Mackenzie
re:politics (formerly, Maple Leaf Web) is scheduled to do an interview with Major General (Ret.) Lewis Mackenzie, former Canadian Armed Forces general and writer. We are providing visitors to re:politics (formerly, Maple Leaf Web) the opportunity to submit potential questions to General Mackenzie.
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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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