Are Progressives to Blame for Far Right Shift in Politics?

I am a former Federal and Alberta Progressive Conservative.  I got involved in federal politics to help Joe Clark win the PC Party leadership in the mid 70s.  I became an Alberta Progressive Conservative to help Peter Lougheed replace the social Credit government of Harry Strom. I saw the demise of the federal PC starting [...]

Alberta Party Gets Organized

It was great to catch up with Michael Walters today.  He is the former organizer for the Greater Edmonton Alliance and now working as an organizer for the new Alberta Party. The announcement of his appointment is out today I believe. He had an interesting observation in our conversation.  He said, “The fuel in your private [...]

Another Blogger Senses the Shifting Political Climate

Here is a very interesting blog post by Gerard MacLellan that promotes the new Alberta Party as a viable alternative.  His comments show a deeper insight than pure partisan politics and definitely worthy of a reflective read. Full Disclosure: I am a member of the Alberta Party

What About an Education Charter for Alberta

Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd is a fellow traveler on the progressive political path for the Next Alberta and very involved in the Reboot Alberta citizen’s movement. He is promoting the idea of an Education Charter for Alberta.  I think it has merit and recommend you read his blog post for more information. You can sign the online petition [...]

Working on RebootAlberta 3.0 Agenda

There are a lot of good ideas out there on what to talk about, how to organize conversations, capture the ideas and set up the space and place for Progressives to take personal and political action to do what need doing to make Alberta a more inclusive, progressive, prosperous and preferred place to live. You [...]

RebootAlberta3.0 “Taking Action” is a GO!

If you think the existing political culture in Alberta is broken, the status quo is not acceptable and the trends and alternatives we are  offered by the dominant and conventional political parties are inadequate for Alberta to realize our potential then you will want to be part of RebootAlberta3.0. We need to renew our democracy, revise [...]

Committing Makes It So!

A small group of us have start to focus on the shape and content of Reboot 3.0 the next province-wide gathering a large group of progressive thinking Albertans.  We will get together in Edmonton Nov 5-7 to starting taking action to make a different kind of Alberta based on progressive values. We will outline a [...]

What Albertans Expect About Oil Sands Development

IN conjunction with the Oil Sand Research and Information Network out of the University of Alberta, my company, Cambridge Strategies Inc. has done a major conjoint study on the oil sands.  The study is designed to determine the preferred value drivers of Albertans on the development of their oil sands. Afterall we Albertans own the [...]