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Originally Posted by GirlySports

Since when were newspapers in the endorsement business?

The Globe and Mail explains why here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...icle2408009/?1

Thanks for your question, Lucy. In fact, newspapers have a long tradition of providing endorsements in elections. We editorialize on all sorts of issues all year long, offering views on government policy, foreign issues, business debates. Why wouldn't we also offer views on which leader and party has the most sensible platform, or is best situated to lead a province or the country? I doubt very much that people read an editorial and religiously follow its recommendation. I think, however, it's one valuable bit of information that voters take into consideration.

The Globe employs Albertans, the Globe is read in Alberta, and the Globe endorses in elections across Canada. If we ignored the Alberta election, I expect we'd be hearing complaints that we don't care about what goes on in Alberta, that we slighted the province. So of course we endorse, just as we did in Ontario, and we do in most provincial elections.