Oil and Gas Clean Up Crisis in Context
The Alberta taxpayer has been saddled with the responsibility for cleaning up over 300.000 end-of-life and abandoned wells in Alberta. These are the legal obligations of conventional energy
Engagement
Do Your Opinions Matter to Government?
Do you feel listened to? Are your phone calls, emails, and letters to the UCP government Ministers or your MLA getting a reasonably relevant response? Do you feel
How Can Albertans Resist Autocracy?
Democracy is fragile and the Rule of Law requires constant human effort to protect, preserve, and promote. Tom Snyder is a Yale History Professor who wrote a book
HAPPINESS IS THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF LIFE
ABACUS DATA has set up the “Happiness Monitor” for Canadians. I am not usually inclined to promote businesses on this site BUT when they undertake a Greater Good
“So This is Christmas, And What Have We Done?”
This blog title is the question posed by John Lennon back in the day, 1971 to be exact, in his Happy Christmas…War is Over (If You Want It!).
Why is Kenney Crumbling?
DIVERSITY OR DIVISIONIST? A recent column in the Edmonton Journal noted Kenney blames his low and dropping approval rate on “we have a much more diverse range of
Policing in Alberta Under Further Review
POLITICS OR POLICY? The UCP is undertaking an updating and further review of the Police Act. They say this new effort “…builds on a broad stakeholder engagement on
Taking the Power of Citizenship Seriously
Taking Citizenship Seriously is a recent Reboot Alberta podcast. episode. It is about the political power of collective and collaborative citizenship for Moderate Progressive and Pragmatic Albertans to
Does UCP Want Your Opinion OR Just Your Email Address
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION COMES WITH A PRICE? The UCP Caucus runs surveys to gather citizen responses to policy options and political issues they believe Albertans are or should be
What’s the Difference Between Citizenship and Partisanship?
I talk and write a lot about Citizenship before Partnership in the context of Reboot Alberta. What is the difference and what difference does it make in Building
Is Kenney’s Opposition to Gun Control Pro-Trump or Anti-Trudeau?
AMERICAN-STYLE GUN CULTURE COMES TO ALBERTA? Trump is well known to encourage intervention by armed civilian paramilitary groups into peaceful urban protests in the States. His infamous debate
Political Polarization and Turf Before Trust.
Hyper-partisanship is Creating Extremist Politics I have commented extensively on the Reboot Alberta Facebook Group and on social media about the destructive hyperpartisanship in Alberta’s broken political culture.