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I wonder if the Conservatives who voted against Mr. O'Toole's motion appreciate the strength of the political ammunition they just handed to the Liberals ?

What does your God say about browbeating others with your version of morality? Doesn't he have something to say about letting others follow the path God has laid out for them ? But that's just the Bible, not so much God's word as written and rewritten and re-rewritten by mere humans.

Were they stand on climate change takes a back seat to the fact that they are a divided party right now. If he can't get his own house in order how will voters trust him to lead the country ? People will hold their noses and vote Liberal just like the last election when Scheer thought all he...

Then where are you getting your information?

Hey, everybody makes mistakes. It's just that not all those mistakes can be seen from space.

"God" has many faces. If his true nature is ever discovered it will be scientists who figure it out, not somebody waving a book around, a book penned by human hand.

Politics isn't about truth, it's about what you can get people to believe.

Their focus appears to be on working in tandem with existing mining operations, operations with known high concentrations of the elements being sought, no mention of oilsands tailings. And with the oil industry under the environmental microscope the extraction technology would have to be...

That article is three years old, back before Shell sold off it’s oilsands holdings to CNRL, a corporation notably mentioned as one of the big offenders in reneging on clean-up obligations in BC. Where are they now on their REE recovery plan ? More window dressing.

The idea of extracting REEs from oilsands tailings is still experimental. A couple of different players have quiet agreements with oilsands producers to see if the idea has any merit. And if their stock prices are any indication there’s nothing really encouraging happening. The oilsands...

That’s quite a stretch. A technology in its infancy.

Weren’t there similar obligations in place for the now “orphaned” gas and oil wells ? The “progress” made so far on reclamation can be best described as window dressing. A handful of acres in high visibility settings.

Hardly surprising. We can expect the same sort of thing in Alberta. Oilsands Land Reclamation

Going soft on environmental responsibility will cost votes. This will give the Liberals some potent firepower.

And if the producers can weather the growing storm of anti-oil sentiment. And if enough jobs come back to get a majority of voters to get back on the UCP bandwagon. And if Kenney can stop making enemies. Lots of ifs going around.

The graphic shows a steady decline in support for the UCP as support for Notely’s NDP has risen. Traditional Conservative policies of low taxes and small government works fine when everybody is making good money, but everybody is not making good money in Alberta these days. Social programs are...

Alberta is Conservative country, and if the Conservative vote hadn’t been split by the Wildrose party in 2015 the NDP likely wouldn’t have gotten in, but they did manage 40% of the popular vote and them ain’t small potatoes.

The Canadian way isn’t to elect new leaders, it’s to fire the old ones. And right now Jason Kenney isn’t racking up any fan points. It is what it is. Jobs are disappearing, wages are dropping, people are pissed. Kenney keeps pointing at Ottawa but people here are having trouble believing him.

I don; I wouldn’t be so sure. I live in BC but have commuted to Alberta for work since 2013, so I saw the NDP come and go. In my mind they did just fine given the hand they were dealt with the oil price crash and the Ft. Mac wildfires. By the end of their tenure things had recovered nicely...

Gonna need extra popcorn.