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This is happening at sites that passed out of the construction phase years ago. I've watched things progress through the oilsands starting with the richest contracts and working from there. Sure, it's just business, but the whole "Alberta Advantage" thing was founded on a promise of plentiful...

It sure is looking that way. Lumping the Libs and the CPC together as varying degrees of center, it does look like support is shifting further away from there in both directions.

No, I don't see a threat of separation as a legitimate concern, other than its potential as a waste of important time. I'm just going by what I have seen while working in the sector. I started there before the price crash in 2014/15 and it was a different world, everybody thought it would go...

That is cause for concern though. Fringe conservative parties are ticking up in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as are the NDP, but the seat projection for the coming election still shows pretty much solid blue in both provinces at present. I shudder at the thought of a Liberal majority, there...

I doubt a separatist movement would ever succeed in breaking up the country, but like Quebec they have the potential to waste a lot of important time. The oil & gas sector is an easy target for those trying to stir up drama and tension because there's a lot of uncertainty in that industry right...

Agree to a point. The current state of things has been fifty or sixty years in the making, it's not going to be an overnight thing to correct.

I have to admit I'm largely uninformed about the political situation in Quebec. My first instinct is that they get coddled by the feds just because of the potential they have to make a big mess of things at a time when we have more important stuff on our plate. The Alberta/Saskatchewan...

Don't be a dink Petros, nobody likes a dink.

I don't think it's broken beyond repair, it's just in need of a tune-up. The free-market capitalism with government sponsored social programs model is basically a good one, it keeps those who need help covered and still rewards individual achievement. In my opinion we have let it slip out of...

Apparently a majority of voters disagreed with you.

Harper's legacy is a mixture of good and bad, but he is history, and let's not forget that he was shown the door by the voters, leaving behind a country more divided than ever before. O'Toole is as nothing-burger, his party is rife with internal discord, and their "Policy Declaration" released...

I don't think the federal NDP are ready for leadership in Ottawa, but at the same time I don't believe right wing politics holds the path to a better future. The concept of smaller government, lower taxes and an unregulated free market economy is fine on paper, but it carries the assumpition...

They say you're supposed to switch hands when you reach forty, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was cheating on me.

What would the CPC have done? Voted themselves a raise and cut taxes on the rich?

Well obviously they haven't seen anything worth taking a stand on yet. It's obvious to me, as it is likely obvious to them, that the whining coming out of the CPC is just electioneering, which falls in line with comments earlier in this thread that all they want is to wrestle power from the...

I agree with most of the above posts. The disconnect between elected officials and those who elect them is systemic, it infects both the major parties thoroughly. I have often thought that having enough independent MPs to amount to a swing vote would go a long way to keeping the two majors a...

One particularly memorable concert for me was the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton in the mid seventies. They weren't a big enough name to fill something like the Coliseum (actually I think the coliseum hadn't opened yet, the biggest venue in Edmonton at that time...

Everybody gets a vote. I just have to wonder why the Liberals are continually polling ahead of the competition. O'Toole is in a tough spot. The economy, social and financial inequality, and environmental issues all consistently top the list of what's important to voters right now, and all of...

It's very simple really, if you don't like the leader you have, elect someone better. Easy peasy.

Strange indeed. Bringing Harper back into the picture won't help the CPC deal with their current dilemma, not a bit. It might help them draw back a few of those defecting to the CPP and Maverick parties, but it's not going to bring them any new converts from farther left.