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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Alberta Party Gets a Fund-Raising Boost

The Alberta Party is both old and new.  It has a long history coming out of the early days of the Preston Manning Reform movement.  It morphed into a more progressive group over the years.  they have been staving off hostile takeovers from right-wing reactionaries and even more recently by the Wildrose Alliance Party. The keepers [...]

What is a Progressive?

New blog post on my other site links to an interesting piece by Ricardo Acuna of the Parkland Institute on the state of progressive values in Alberta’s political parties. Worth a read and please follow the links for more context.  Most progressive thinking people in Alberta are not partisan and that is an important distinction.

Can Alberta Progressives Get Our Political Act Together?

Here is a link to my other blog and commentary on the recent effort by Alberta Liberal leader, David Swann, to start a partisan based conversation on getting the Alberta progressive voice clear and conveyed and understood Please visit the Ken Chapman blog and comment on the effort and ideas.

Rebooters and Progressives Engaged in Elections

Part of the Reboot Alberta citizen’s movement has to be showing movement.  This fall all Alberta municipalities and school boards will be holding elections.  Many involved in the Reboot Alberta movement are involved in campaigns as candidates, workers and supporters of progressive candidates.  Other Rebooters are running websites to collect and aggregate campaign information in Edmonton and Calgary. I [...]

Reviving the RebootAlberta Blog

It has been a long time since there was activity on this blog but that is about to change.  This blog will become focused on citizen engagement and reviving democracy in Alberta.  It will mostly be written by me Ken Chapman and it will compliment my regular political blog at www.ken-chapman.blogspot.com. This blog will link to other [...]

Ruben Nelson’s Thoughts on What is a Progressive in Alberta

As I reflect on the paper, it occurs to me that we need a more robust intellectual structure (framework) for the work.  The reason is that as citizens there is no shared way of using language or of even identifying, let alone ordering, the various elements we need to think through.  What follows is meant [...]