Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by troutman

I work part time in a liquor store. Many customers really do want their bourbon and Californian wines.

At least California is a blue state. Kentucky voted for Trump so bourbon is off the table for me, there are some really good Canadian bourbon-style whiskeys.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

If you have measles and were never vaccinated you should 100% serve time in prison.

I’m all for going back to a vaccine “passport” to get into public spaces. Don’t believe in vaccines? Guess who can dine out back by the dumpster.

[troutman]

Dear Friends of the Slopes,

On Wednesday, June 11, Alberta’s top decision-makers, including Premier Danielle Smith and the Ministers of Energy, Environment, and Agriculture, are hosting a Coal Town Hall in Fort Macleod.

We invite you to attend and be a voice for the water, for the fish, and for the land. To stand with others who know that coal has no place in a healthy future of these mountains and watersheds.

Coal Town Hall Details:

Date: Wednesday, June 11
Time: Doors at 5:00 PM | Event 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: Fort Macleod & District Community Hall

I plan to be there.

[puffnstuff]

https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/d...-in-the-world/

Danielle Smith has news for the people of Canada: you have ‘the lowest living standards in the world’

[troutman]

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is seriously underperforming and people are starting to notice

https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/05/n...ing-to-notice/

[Fuzz]

Probably doesn't help Smith's pettyness and general being a ####ty person by keeping him out of the legislature as long as possible.


I also suspect the NDP collapse at the federal level has had an influence on these types of polls. Definitely not time to panic, long time until an election, unfortunately.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by troutman

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is seriously underperforming and people are starting to notice

https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/05/n...ing-to-notice/

I don’t buy that it’s downstream of the federal NDP collapse. That collapse was largely a consequence of opposition to the CPC uniting under the Liberal banner. If it were about the NDP brand losing appeal, why isn’t an alternative to the NDP forming in Alberta on the center-left?

The NDP have actually lost support in Calgary since Nenshi won the leadership. That takes some explaining.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I don’t buy that it’s downstream of the federal NDP collapse. That collapse was largely a consequence of opposition to the CPC uniting under the Liberal banner. If it were about the NDP brand losing appeal, why isn’t an alternative to the NDP forming in Alberta on the center-left?

The NDP have actually lost support in Calgary since Nenshi won the leadership. That takes some explaining.

People are dumb.

[TheIronMaiden]

If we are counting lawn signs, it looks like the Alberta Republican Party may just win Didsbury, Olds, Three Hills.

[KelVarnsen]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

If we are counting lawn signs, it looks like the Alberta Republican Party may just win Didsbury, Olds, Three Hills.

People are dumb

[TheIronMaiden]

Tara Sawyer the UCP Candidate is very qualified. She was been a part of provincial and national grain trade boards and served as Chair of Grain Growers of Canada.

While I don't agree with her social politics, there is no doubt she is the best for local industry.

The AB Rep guy comes off as a blow hard evangelical, but blowhards do well when the Alberta victim mentality runs rampant.

[TheIronMaiden]

All that said Bev Toews the ANDP candidate is a hard worker and is socially responsible. She and I have collaborated on a few local initiatives. We'd be lucky to have someone like her in Government.

[woob]

Is Nenshi in the legislature yet? Could that be part of the issue of his underperformance? Hard to get visibility from the sidelines?

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/arti...e-immediately/

On Friday, the#AGLC announced#it will “resume accepting liquor products from the United States, effective immediately,” at the direction of the provincial government.

I'm okay with this, let the consumer decide but don't punish businesses who may rely on the product. I love bourbon but it's off limits now for me, I'll switch to something else for the foreseeable future.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

If we are counting lawn signs, it looks like the Alberta Republican Party may just win Didsbury, Olds, Three Hills.

The same area elected a separatist in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Kesler

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Yamer

The same area elected a separatist in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Kesler

It is likely the most conservative riding in Alberta, and by that virtue Canada.
There are deep Mennonite and evangelical roots.

Places up north are petrosexuals, but here, they don't care as much about the economy as fighting for christo facism.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by woob

Is Nenshi in the legislature yet? Could that be part of the issue of his underperformance? Hard to get visibility from the sidelines?

He’s running in a by election. Attacks come out. I highly doubt there was a major shift in how people felt about Nenshi in the last 6 months, especially since he hasn’t had a seat in the legislature.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

If we are counting lawn signs, it looks like the Alberta Republican Party may just win Didsbury, Olds, Three Hills.

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Tara Sawyer the UCP Candidate is very qualified. She was been a part of provincial and national grain trade boards and served as Chair of Grain Growers of Canada.

While I don't agree with her social politics, there is no doubt she is the best for local industry.

The AB Rep guy comes off as a blow hard evangelical, but blowhards do well when the Alberta victim mentality runs rampant.

Drove through the riding yesterday, I would agree with the assessment of lawn signs. I would estimate about 5:1 advantage in favor of the Alberta Republican signs. But signs on almost every corner where the roads turned and a smattering of lawn signs in some farmyards. Funny, I didn't realize until reading this thread they were for the byelection, I has assumed they were leftovers from the federal election. The AB Rep signs were liberal red and white in color, the UCP signs looked almsot identical the the CPC.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

If we are counting lawn signs, it looks like the Alberta Republican Party may just win Didsbury, Olds, Three Hills.

Maybe thats a good thing? Split the vote a little?

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I don’t buy that it’s downstream of the federal NDP collapse. That collapse was largely a consequence of opposition to the CPC uniting under the Liberal banner. If it were about the NDP brand losing appeal, why isn’t an alternative to the NDP forming in Alberta on the center-left?

The NDP have actually lost support in Calgary since Nenshi won the leadership. That takes some explaining.

I think it's downstream of the federal election results, but not anything to do with the federal NDP.

In the same way the Trump victory and and subsequent attack on Canada pushed support away from the CPC (regarded by the electorate as most aligned with the GOP) and toward the LPC, I think we're seeing the results of the federal election influence provincial support away from the ABNDP (seen as most aligned with the LPC) and toward the UCP, if only just in the current polling. And as Fuzz mentioned, it doesn't help that Nenshi has been artificially kept out of the Legislature for so long thanks to delaying calling a byelection.

This is the sort of thing that makes me wish left-leaning parties would stop doing right-wing parties any courtesies; they sure as hell do not get re-paid in kind.