Alberta Health Service execs make out like bandits while Neala Barton demurs
It's the last week of our supporter drive and boy, do we need you! Please help rabble.ca amplify democratic movements. Become a monthly supporter. "demur: to make objection; especially on the grounds...
View ArticleAlberta's climate change strategy goes up in smoke
Alberta's Auditor General Merwan Saher blew a gasket. He called the government's performance on climate change strategy "troubling" and "disturbing." Hey, he's a mild mannered accountant; this is as...
View ArticleTen ways Jim Prentice is nothing like Peter Lougheed
"During a one-and-a-half hour editorial board meeting…with Progressive Conservative leadership candidate… Jim Prentice, I was struck by how often Lougheed's legendary thoughtfulness, tone and command...
View ArticleBread, circuses and the great Alberta licence plate debate
Poor Premier Dave Hancock. Remember him. He tried to pull off the "bread and circuses" gambit -- and kicked over a hornet's nest.The phrase "bread and circuses" was coined the Romans. It refers to the...
View ArticleAlberta's 'rogue politics' and 'rogue' politicians
Is Alison Redford a rogue politician or does she belong to a rogue party?A rogue is a dishonest or unprincipled man (or woman), a scoundrel, villain, miscreant, reprobate, good-for-nothing,...
View ArticleMore excuses from Alberta Tories on Airplane Scandal
"I am optimistic that your review will assist in securing Albertans' continued confidence in their government and trust in their elected officials."-- Premier Redford's letter to the Auditor General...
View ArticleJim Prentice's free PC memberships fail 'truthiness' test
If Jim Prentice is going to wade into the murky waters of "truthiness" the least he could do is do it properly, otherwise the whole thing becomes a farce. "Truthiness" is a term coined by...
View ArticleTen reasons politicians are not cans of spork (Or, why Jim Prentice's 'term...
Politicians are not tins of spork. The good ones don't go bad just because they've been sitting around for a while.Of all of the things that PC party leadership candidate Jim Prentice could have done...
View ArticleWhen a 'fiscally conservative' government is $20B in debt, it's time to call...
"Tonight, we begin the work of advancing and protecting sound, conservative fiscal principles." -- Future Premier Jim Prentice, victory speech, Sept 6, 2014It hasn't escaped Ms. Soapbox's notice that...
View ArticleJim Prentice's first week heading the corporation of Alberta
"As of this moment, Alberta is under new management." -- Jim Prentice, 16th Premier of AlbertaTransition. There's nothing more unsettling; no, strike that, nerve-wracking, for an organization than a...
View ArticleCalgary blindsided by Premier Prentice's flood mitigation plan
It started with another "feel good" press release.On Wed Sept 24, 2014, Premier Prentice announced that he was proceeding with two flood mitigation projects. He'll divert the Highwood River to protect...
View ArticleThe 'Sonic' boom: How Alberta became an 'Offshore Business' in the pathology...
Why does Stephen Mandel, the newly minted Minister of Health, think it's a good idea for Alberta taxpayers to support the lifestyles of wealthy Australian businessmen who earn more than $13 million a...
View ArticleThe worst job in Alberta: Leader of the Opposition
Why does the public go bananas when Danielle Smith, the leader of the Official Opposition, criticizes the PC government? They say she's too negative, too shrill, too something. Can't she be more...
View ArticleOPEC sets up the rollercoaster, Albertans take a ride (again)
"You come from capitalist nations. You know what the market does. For any commodity it goes up and down, up and down." -- Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi Contrary to the expectations of many analysts,...
View ArticleDanielle Smith betrayed the Wildrose. Jim Prentice betrayed the rest of us.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."---Abraham LincolnPremier Prentice gave every member of his caucus a copy of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book...
View ArticlePoliticians don't lie. They 'misspeak.'
"How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving." -- Political joke.Politicians don't lie. They misspeak, they overstate, they understate. And the press distorts, takes out of context,...
View ArticleAlberta needs Charlie Hebdo
Wednesday's massacre of eight journalists, five of whom were political cartoonists, at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo unleashed a torrent of "We are Charlie Hebdo" editorials across the...
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Is Jim Prentice the Premier of Alberta or its CEO?
Like this article? Chip in to keep stories likes these coming. “We have to do more with less. That will apply across the board. It will have to apply to the very good work [of the child advocate], it...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for progressive cooperation in Alberta
"I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection" -- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)Relax. Ms. Soapbox's modest proposal does not...
View ArticleAlberta Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman takes a symbolic step...in the wrong...
Crikey!On Friday Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman announced that she'll be running as a candidate for the Liberals, the Alberta Party and the Greens in the upcoming election......and on Sunday Ms. Soapbox...
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