Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[2Stonedbirds]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Drove by a big 4x4 Pawlowski sign near Richmond Rd.. Someone put googly eyes on him. I laughed.

Ha! Violating Canada's elections act, a criminal offense! So funny.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds

Ha! Violating Canada's elections act, a criminal offense! So funny.

If you’re going to commit a criminal offence at least it provides public benefit.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds

Ha! Violating Canada's elections act, a criminal offense! So funny.

Don't see you crying about about NDP signs bring destroyed and stolen and promoted by scum trash Shandro.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by eddly

PP may be too far right for me, I consider myself more centrist, leaning slightly left or right on some issues. PP keeps mentioning the “woke liberal/NDP agenda”. I need to get a better understanding of what “woke” means to PP.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6840196

Woke means nothing about what was said or who said it, it means PP thinks he can score political points harping on something someone said and bullying his opposition into defending it.

It's something we should just shrug off and say that's stupid, but instead I'm out at the bar Sunday night with other dads from my kids team, and one of them asks the dad who is a principal if there are litter boxes at the school, because reality and satire have merged.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by craigwd

What is even the point of advance voting now?
Just make the regular vote a week long affair. You have from May 28-June 3 to vote - easy as that.

Does that require a consitutional amendment or something?

Number of polling locations?

generally speaking there is ~ 1 station in every +/-4 community district for advanced. and there are +/-2 per community for day of voting an 8:1 difference.

[GirlySports]

https://338canada.com/alberta/districts.htm

50-37 UCP. More troubling is Likely or better (outside the margin of error 10%+ lead) 40-25 UCP. Unless there are outliers somewhere in those 40, UCP only need 4 more seats out of 22. NDP would need to almost run the table, 19 out of 22.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by mikephoen

I’ve mostly been looking on Vancouver island, and it doesn’t look to be a problem to get something equivalent. Some friends just bought in Invermere and it was cheaper than Calgary for sure. Kamloops is cheaper I think and Kelowna about the same. Lots of options in nice places.

Kamloops is full of methods heads and Kelowna is not cheaper. My brother lives in Kelowna...The job markets in those locals also lacks too. Most people won't leave the province regardless of the result. Chances are Oil is heading down and the Energy Sector will lose jobs regardless of who wins.

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Zevo

My wife is a nurse and we don't know of a single Doctor or Nurse that is unemployed or lost their job at the hospital we work at, or any other hospital for that matter because they didn't get vaccinated. Were there a few(out of hundreds) that weren't happy about it? Sure but in the end common sense won out and they got vaccinated.

Not surprising. About 2,500 people working in healthcare in BC lost their jobs due to not getting vaccinated, but 2/3rds of those were casual workers and didn't actually have a full or part-time position. And that total also includes janitors, care aids, and non-medical support staff, so the impact on front-line staff was even smaller.

[FireGilbert]

Why do you guys still vote on a Monday? It's not 1923 where you need to line up the election with farmers coming to market. Get it done on a Saturday.

[Reggie Dunlop]

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Why do you guys still vote on a Monday? It's not 1923 where you need to line up the election with farmers coming to market. Get it done on a Saturday.

Imagine a world where everyone has different schedules. Crazy?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

I made him a spiffy new tie, to add some colour to contrast his eyes. I think it works.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Why do you guys still vote on a Monday? It's not 1923 where you need to line up the election with farmers coming to market. Get it done on a Saturday.

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

Imagine a world where everyone has different schedules. Crazy?

It's 2023, I should be able to vote while laying on my couch in my underwear already. Why should we have to leave the house at all?

[Spurs]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Kamloops is full of methods heads and Kelowna is not cheaper. My brother lives in Kelowna...The job markets in those locals also lacks too. Most people won't leave the province regardless of the result. Chances are Oil is heading down and the Energy Sector will lose jobs regardless of who wins.

As someone who has explored options of moving out of Alberta if the UCP wins and with my wife and I having jobs that are somewhat easy to move to any area it still is tough to find a good place to move to that doesn't come with its own issues, so I agree I think most will stay here despite the result.

That is one benefit of the US so many more options to move to if you live there, but Canada has so much of the same or so many places with so many flaws.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

It's 2023, I should be able to vote while laying on my couch in my underwear already. Why should we have to leave the house at all?

Probably cuts back on voter fraud.

[Jimmy Stang]

Quito Maggi (Mainstreet CEO) is standing by his personal prediction of an NDP win, despite Mainstreet’s model today still showing a very slight edge to UCP. In the Twitter space thing, he explained that riding-level data favours NDP. Either way, it will likely be 2-3 seats on either side.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

Probably cuts back on voter fraud.

If it helps I can send Elections Alberta a picture of me in my underwear voting.

[Sylvanfan]

It is an election where the ridings will be key. Edmonton heavily favors the NDP, rural Alberta the UCP. Could be a lot like the 96 B.C. Provincial election where a party wins multiple ridings in Calgary by a slim margin and the other one wins fewer seats but the margin in those ridings is much larger.

I think the key will be how many Conservstive voters just don't vote. I think Nenshi is right in his assessment that they'll either vote Notley and feel lousy...vote Smith and feel lousy, or not vote and be indifferent. Two of those options favor the NDP...I think the NDP pull out a slim victory.

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

If it helps I can send Elections Alberta a picture of me in my underwear voting.

I have told you repeatedly to quit sending those

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

I have told you repeatedly to quit sending those

No one can silence me. I have rights.