by Bill Tieleman
"History is not on the government's side when it comes to byelections. The only byelection that government has won in 30 years was the one that I won in Vancouver-Point Grey."
– Premier Christy Clark, April 12, 2012
Could Christy Clark possibly lose the July 10 byelection in the very safe BC Liberal seat of Westside-Kelowna?
by Susie Proulx-Daigle
SAINT JOHN, June 20, 2013 — "I run my Department like a business," a deputy minister recently told me in a meeting.
This wasn’t a shameful confession or an ironic eye-rolling nod to ham-fisted political direction, but rather an honest-to-goodness assessment of his recent performance and a value statement about the way things ought to be.
from Pembina Institute
With the federal government’s latest deadline to announce greenhouse gas regulations for the oil and gas sector just a week away, new analysis from the Pembina Institute highlights the consequences of adopting a weaker-than-required approach to this high-profile industry.
by Stephen Kimber
The careening train wreck Trevor Zinck’s political career and personal life has become has finally flown off the tracks, plunged over the cliff and disappeared into an abyss.
by Ricardo Acuña
In the last few months, the Alberta Government has been working very hard to present itself as being tough with those people and organizations that do not toe the government line, and has not hesitated to slap down threats and fines for anyone who doesn't comply. But not always.
by Gary Corbett, President, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
The announcement last month by Treasury board president Tony Clement that the government would be introducing mandatory performance reviews has raised suspicions that there is an ulterior motive behind them.
from the Alberta Federation of Labour
EDMONTON, June 17, 2013 — The Alberta Federation of Labour is making the case that the Northern Gateway Pipeline is not in the best interests of Canadians.
from the United Steelworkers
Dozens of community and labour activists converged on Conservative MP Joe Oliver's office on June 10 to demand an end to the Harper government's low-wage economic strategy and abuse of temporary foreign workers.
"The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is not a legitimate immigration policy," said Ontario Federation of Labour President Sid Ryan.
by Bill Tieleman
"Action expresses priorities."
– Mahatma Gandhi
Disabled seniors in wheelchairs across British Columbia living in residential care are going to have even more money picked out of their pockets by the cash-hungry provincial government, according to an independent MLA. Independent MLA Vicki Huntington said in an interview Saturday that not only will seniors be forced to pay a $300 a year wheelchair "maintenance" fee but all future wheelchair service will be fully privatized, costing them hundreds to thousands of dollars for necessary mobility equipment.
by Samantha Powers
The landslide election of 1993 took the ground out from under the Alberta New Democrats. The once-thriving official opposition lost every one of its 16 seats in an election that changed the political dialogue of the province.
"The spectrum had moved dramatically," says Ray Martin, NDP leader at the time. "We became isolated."
