Alberta

[The Green Barbarian]

Yup, the contractors and tradespeople in know in Albertans

What?

[hobbyguy]

Yup, a lot of Albertans are very grateful for the capital projects Notley committed to before Kenny came into power. They are seeing clearly just how corrupt and incompetent the UPC actually are and can hardly wait to vote Notley back into power.

With the next election a little over a year away the NDP continue to poll ahead of the UCP 43% to 32%, but the Wildrose Independence Party continues to siphon off votes from both leading parties, currently holding 10% of voter intentions. In previous polling the WIP had been grouped into a "some other party" category, but with this latest poll from mid-December they have officially made it on to the playing field.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local- ... eview-poll

It is extremely difficult to read much from these polls. I have noted many cases where people, in talking to them, demonstrate a set of values that would seem to rule out voting for a party like the UCP or CPC, but when decision time comes, they cast their vote in that direction which seems to to vote against their own interests and values.

I suspect that the focus on the leadership review is a genuine expression of disgruntlement, and that also has a tendency to skew the votes versus polling, especially far from an election. Very easy for a voter who normally votes for party A to say to a pollster I choose party B when the rubber does not hit the road. It is very soft support for party B.

However, Alberta politics continues to befuddle me. I read the polling for the PPC in the federal election cycle as "soft" in that manner, and it wasn't in Alberta (it was in BC).

I wouldn't bet against Kenney surviving a leadership review and getting re-elected despite many Albertans seeming quite disgruntled at this time.

[fluffy]

However, Alberta politics continues to befuddle me. I read the polling for the PPC in the federal election cycle as "soft" in that manner, and it wasn't in Alberta (it was in BC).

I wouldn't bet against Kenney surviving a leadership review and getting re-elected despite many Albertans seeming quite disgruntled at this time.

My experience with Albertans has been almost entirely in a blue collar/oil field setting, I can't speak for the urban element which does hold most of the votes in the province. Folks in camp were concerned with their jobs, and the changes they have seen since the price crash in 2014. Many of the consequences of that crash manifested under the NDP's watch even though most of the layoffs occurred just before they took office in May, thus as the reality started to sink in after the fact the NDP came under fire. Voters being largely driven by emotion when properly stimulated, it was no big challenge for Kenney to point the finger of blame at Notely and the NDP even though his complaints were largely baseless. With the recent recovery in oil prices Kenney may well ride that wave to victory, if he can regain confidence within his party. I notice he has taken on a degree of humility we haven't seen in him before, although I don't believe for a second that it is sincere, it's more likely a ploy to save his own political neck. Regardless, it will be an interesting year-and-a-bit ahead.

[The Green Barbarian]

With the recent recovery in oil prices Kenney may well ride that wave to victory, if he can regain confidence within his party. I notice he has taken on a degree of humility we haven't seen in him before, although I don't believe for a second that it is sincere, it's more likely a ploy to save his own political neck. Regardless, it will be an interesting year-and-a-bit ahead.

Yes, perhaps something has gotten through to Kenney to stop being such a jerk. No one with a brain in Alberta wants the NDP back, but being an arrogant jerk doesn't help and Kenney can't help being Kenney sometimes, and always rubs everyone the wrong way, which is counter-productive. I hope that he resigns and lets someone much less abrasive take over, as the NDP barista gang taking over again is a huge step backwards for Alberta. And this is coming from a lot of people who tried to get projects approved under the NDP and were hugely disappointed at the lack of talent or brains in the NDP team, and who have now been pleasantly surprised at how well the UCP teams are performing. Not a big leap to understand why that is, the NDP attracts people who are very low-functioning.

[captkirkcanada]

Battle lines drawn, the teachers are ready for war with the UCP


https://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/? ... &ver=html5

[captkirkcanada]

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he's asked Justice Minister Kaycee Madu to "step back" from his job while an independent review examines if there was interference in the administration of justice after Madu phoned the Edmonton police chief about a traffic ticket.

The request follows a CBC News story Monday that revealed Madu had telephoned Edmonton police chief Dale McFee to discuss a distracted driving ticket he received March 10, 2021.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6318678


Par for the course i due declare.

[captkirkcanada]

A first-of-its-kind “green” Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more greenhouse gases than it’s capturing, throwing into question whether taxpayers should be funding it, a new report has found.

Shell’s Quest carbon capture and storage facility captured 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the hydrogen produced at its Scotford complex between 2015 and 2019. Scotford refines oil from the Alberta tar sands.

Meanwhile, Germany announced this week that even though it’s opting to subsidize clean hydrogen, it won’t foot the bill for “blue hydrogen,” which uses fossil fuels during production and then sequesters carbon emissions using carbon capture technology (the same type of hydrogen production at Shell’s Scotford plant).

Global Witness’ report also notes that Canada’s federal and Alberta governments spent hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds—at least US$654 million—to pay for the billion-dollar Quest project.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb43x/ ... nt-alberta


the joke will be on anyone thinking this works

[captkirkcanada]

the manufacturing company CESSCO, based in Edmonton, Alberta, has locked out unionized employees. Meanwhile, the firm has used Canada’s federal government COVID-19 wage subsidy funds to hire scabs.

Unionized employees at CESSCO Fabrication and Engineering Ltd have opposed a raft of attacks on their pay and working conditions. These include slashing wages by 10 percent, pensions by up to 50 percent, and removing seniority from their collective agreement. In union agreements, seniority stipulates that wage and security benefits accrue to workers based on their length of service, so those who have been there the longest are paid the most and are the last to be let go in the event of layoffs.

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/canadian ... ta-strike/


no surprise to me

[The Green Barbarian]

no surprise to me

Me either. Good on this company for taking a stand against tyranny! Way to go team!

[foenix]

no surprise to me

Me either. Good on this company for taking a stand against tyranny! Way to go team!

Modern conservatives are rotten to the core. They are becoming a blight and a pestilent everywhere they are. They need the Great Reset.

[fluffy]

Modern conservatives are rotten to the core. They are becoming a blight and a pestilent everywhere they are. They need the Great Reset.

"Modern" is not the best choice of words when it comes to conservative politics, especially in Alberta. Like Kenney, they're still living in the past and think they can bring back the gravy days of $100+/bbl oil and everyone in the province pulling down six digits. I watched workers dumping on Notely and Trudeau and cry about their paycheques, looking the other way while Kenney keeps up his anti-union/pro-corporate program. Kenney is all about "an angry voter is not a thinking voter", the basis of "modern" conservatism.

[The Green Barbarian]

Modern conservatives are rotten to the core. They are becoming a blight and a pestilent everywhere they are. They need the Great Reset.

It's actual "modern" progressives (regressives who have terrible policies that cause nothing but mass human suffering like Alberta saw under the NDP) who are rotten to the core. They already have become a blight and a pestilence everywhere they have been, and disgusting as well. They need to stop causing so much pain on our society, and go do what they do best, collect welfare and do absolutely nothing.

[Pappywinkle]

They already have become a blight and a pestilence everywhere they have been, and disgusting as well. They need to stop causing so much pain on our society, and go do what they do best, collect welfare and do absolutely nothing.

It's definitely true that the evil and corrupt UCP government under Kenney is a blight on Alberta, who are causing so much pain on our society. Watching the disgusting UCP government collect corporate welfare at the expense of Albertan families is yet another reason why the much more competent Notley NDP government will kick the UCP sorry butts to the curb.

[foenix]

Modern conservatives are rotten to the core. They are becoming a blight and a pestilent everywhere they are. They need the Great Reset.

It's actual "modern" progressives (regressives who have terrible policies that cause nothing but mass human suffering like Alberta saw under the NDP) who are rotten to the core. They already have become a blight and a pestilence everywhere they have been, and disgusting as well. They need to stop causing so much pain on our society, and go do what they do best, collect welfare and do absolutely nothing.

Hmmm.....too bad Albertans disagree with you about that.

Alberta Premier Kenney's approval rating plummets in new ThinkHQ poll

More than 1,100 respondents gave their opinion on the Kenney's leadership, with only 22 percent of offering any degree of approval for the first-term premier............

“Jason Kenney is a leader on life-support, and his prognosis is not good,” said ThinkHQ president Marc Henry.

“We have not seen a sitting premier with numbers this low in almost a decade.”

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-prem ... -1.5610896

Ouch!! I'm thinking Albertans are wishing for those glorious Rachel Notley days.

[The Green Barbarian]

Kenney is all about "an angry voter is not a thinking voter", the basis of "modern" conservatism.

And yet if its clear that the only "non-thinking" voters are the ones voting for Notley and the NDP in Alberta. No one who sits down to think things through would ever vote NDP, they are a blight and a pestilence.