Alberta Politics Thread

[Wiggum_PI]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

How is it an inference that a profession with less bullying is a lessor profession?

How do you know there's less bullying being an electrician, are you a Tradesperson?

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Wiggum_PI

How do you know there's less bullying being an electrician, are you a Tradesperson?

How do you know roses are red and violets are blue?

[Wiggum_PI]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

How do you know roses are red and violets are blue?

So you're not an electrician, ok got it.

[Flash Walken]

And just like that, we've gone off the deepend.

How is saying that profession A has less bullying than profession B an insult to profession A?

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

At what point do we see a capping in price for groceries and Flames tickets along with a $25 minimum wage?

When they start seeing lines of 2 hours or more for bread, eggs or milk.

[chemgear]

http://www.inews880.com/syn/98/16208...e-layoffs-cfib

More Alberta entrepreneurs are preparing to lay off workers.

After a slight uptick in previous months, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) says its monthly business barometer indicates small business confidence is down four points.

The CFIB says 45 per cent of Alberta businesses are preparing to let workers go in the next three months.

Only four per cent are looking to bring more staff on, compared to five percent last month.

The barometer indicates 71 per cent of entrepreneurs list tax and regulatory costs as a major constraint, while 65 per cent cite wage pressures.

[Wiggum_PI]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

And just like that, we've gone off the deepend.

How is saying that profession A has less bullying than profession B an insult to profession A?

How do you know that's what she meant by that comment though? It's open to interpretation. Some people would probably agree with you that was what she meant, but others were offended by it which is why she apologized.

In the end it doesn't really matter, she's crossed the floor and hitched her wagon to a party that will get turfed at the next election. Her political career is probably over after this term.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by chemgear

http://www.inews880.com/syn/98/16208...e-layoffs-cfib

More Alberta entrepreneurs are preparing to lay off workers.

After a slight uptick in previous months, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) says its monthly business barometer indicates small business confidence is down four points.

The CFIB says 45 per cent of Alberta businesses are preparing to let workers go in the next three months.

Only four per cent are looking to bring more staff on, compared to five percent last month.

The barometer indicates 71 per cent of entrepreneurs list tax and regulatory costs as a major constraint, while 65 per cent cite wage pressures.

I think the retail sector is going to be hit very hard as people don't spend as much for Christmas.

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by chemgear

http://www.inews880.com/syn/98/16208...e-layoffs-cfib

More Alberta entrepreneurs are preparing to lay off workers.

After a slight uptick in previous months, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) says its monthly business barometer indicates small business confidence is down four points.

The CFIB says 45 per cent of Alberta businesses are preparing to let workers go in the next three months.

Only four per cent are looking to bring more staff on, compared to five percent last month.

The barometer indicates 71 per cent of entrepreneurs list tax and regulatory costs as a major constraint, while 65 per cent cite wage pressures.

I'd like to congratulate the ndp on hammering the final nails in the alberta coffin. This was such a good province once. Instead of slowing the bleed they have completely opened the wound.

The ndp continues to make things worse. Solar and wind isn't coming to alberta because of our low electricity rates. The ndp is already working on changing that. Ideology first.

[CaptainCrunch]

Its going to be really interesting to see the next budgets. I think that the revenue figures are going to take a massive hit due to unemployment and businesses failing or losing money.

That 10 or 12 billion dollar deficit will probably be a lot higher.

As well when we see a couple of months of the carbon tax effect after Jan 1st a lot of companies that were hanging on for the Christmas season are going to throw in the towel when they see their cost acceleration.

[LanceUppercut]

Everyone in this province should support recall legislation, whoever the next government is. Rachel Notley would be a lot more amenable to discarding her ideology first government if it was going to get them turfed within 2 years.

[CaptainCrunch]

I think the only way this government goes is if there are mass protests in front of the Legislature building calling for her to resign.

The Polls are showing that nobody has any faith in Rachel, this party or this government. They also show that nobody wants this carbon tax.

As it stands if her ratings plummet, just before the next election she'll step down as leader.

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

At what point do we see a capping in price for groceries and Flames tickets along with a $25 minimum wage?

It's not really a cap though.

In the case of electricity, it's a cap on your bill. Any overage the government pays to the generators. The money the government is using to pay them comes from your taxes, royalties or from borrowing.

One way or another you end up paying that bill, or money that should have gone somewhere else is now going to Enmax.

The ONLY winners here are the generators and their "owners" like the City of Calgary who owns Enmax.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

I mean, this story is 2 years old and is only being brought up to smear her reputation.

It's being brought up now because Jansen is trying to make political hay out of being the victim of bullying. So her own previous public statements on bullying are absolutely germane to the issue.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

It's being brought up now because Jansen is trying to make political hay out of being the victim of bullying. So her own previous public statements on bullying are absolutely germane to the issue.

Maybe the treatment Len Webber described wasn't bullying and the treatment Jansen described was?

I mean, I don't know any of these people and some posters on this board clearly appear to, but maybe what she experienced and what Len Webber experienced were two different things?

I mean, some people seem to think so...

Some people suspect Jansen is just deflecting the animosity she faces because of her floor-crossing to the NDP last week. They’re so mad they think she deserves everything she gets.

The NDP isn’t beyond a deflection here and there, that’s for sure.

Floor-crossing is a dubious, risky move at best, although legitimate in the parliamentary sense.

Those who do it are in for a rough time, especially in Alberta. Just ask ex-Wildrose leader Danielle Smith, or any of the other 10 who crossed with her to the Progressive Conservatives in December 2014.

But the point here is that people can be as angry and critical as they like about a political decision, without turning it into an anti-female, anti-gay rant that often includes serious threats.

A security detail from the Executive Protection Unit is not assigned as a political stunt. It’s done on some indication of real danger, assessed by tough, skilled officers who include both men and women.

There’s a regular detail for the premier, but protection for an individual MLA is extremely rare.

It’s also costly. The people who make these threats can congratulate themselves on forcing the government to spend even more money.

http://calgaryherald.com/news/politi...and-bodyguards

[Fuzz]

Whelp, there goes $1.1 Billion....

TransAlta, ATCO and Capital Power will receive $97 million in annual transition payments over the next 14 years to compensate them for closing down their coal-fired power plants by 2030, the government announced Thursday.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...866763?cmp=rss

Well on our way to following the Ontario Liberals.

[para transit fellow]

http://www.alberta.ca/climate-coal-electricity.aspx

I didn't realize that 12 of Alberta's 18 coal plants had already been scheduled for decommissioning before 2030.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Whelp, there goes $1.1 Billion....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...866763?cmp=rss

Well on our way to following the Ontario Liberals.

Man, I am in the wrong line of work.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Whelp, there goes $1.1 Billion....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...866763?cmp=rss

Well on our way to following the Ontario Liberals.

Not really. At least the population derived some benefit from these generators.

[Resolute 14]

I can't wait for Notley to spend more of my money printing more flyers explaining to me how this $1.1 billion waste is good for me.