One Alberta Voice

I find it very interesting: so many people I know were unhappy with the Conservatives before the election, were reading the news and seeing the nonsense and decided to vote against them. And yet, the PCs still managed to pull off a majority government. I like to believe things happen for a reason or that, at the very least, good things can come out of bad situations. I have hope that, while it may take some time, the good to come out of the current bad will be clear. There has been so much in the news this past week against our latest installment of the PC government that if I had the time to write, there would be at least daily posts. It has not been good news. And we have another 4 years with them. If this is how things are starting off... The thing to get my attention today was the following article by Don Braid from the Calgary Herald: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Braid+Scapegoat+turn+tables+former+Alberta+employers/6719269/story.html The former chief elections officer, Lo...

Despite telling myself to take a small break from political reading - it really is just getting me very frustrated at times - I ended up reading this article: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1166726--alberta-election-after-a-divisive-campaign-voters-cast-their-ballot There is a quote from a PC supporter in the article, as follows: “So what we ended up with is an Americanization of our Alberta politics,” said PC supporter Anita Loowell of Edmonton. “What we’ve got at that end, the Wildrose, is people who believe that private health care is okay, that people should look after themselves, that public education doesn’t matter and we’re all on our own. That’s not what I want." Here we see the likely effects of misinformation through the media. I can grant that someone may have read the Wildrose Policy and believed such a thing, but those are not the facts. As of their 2012 policy, here is Wildrose's stance on health care:  http://www.wildrose.ca/policy...