Alberta Election (Bumped)

The pundits and politicians have had their say. Give us yours. Eighty-seven seats up for grabs and the last election resulted in a 63-24 UCP win.

Things may be different this time if the polls are close to reality. I don’t think the polls are right. I figure a couple of UCP seats lost in Calgary and the Redmonton seat.

More info at Elections Alberta

Results now rolling in: @9:21pm with UCP leading in 51, NDP in 33. (10% reporting)

Lota of grumbling about slow returns: I’m wondering if I will wake up in the morning and have Biden as premier.

Don’t count him out.

10:15 update: Stockwell Day called it an hour ago.

CBC hardest hit.

132 Replies to “Alberta Election (Bumped)”

  1. 45 seats NDP, 42 seats for the UCP.

    (CBC and CTV news celebrate the dippers’ victory).

    1. UCP 52
      NDP 35

      I voted NDP because I hate the cowardly cuckservatives.

      I am sick and tired of the “fiscally conservative but socially moderate” crapola.

      I am Third Way—I am 10,000 miles to the right of Genghis Khan on social issues and support strong social programs for dare I say, the founding stock of this country.

      The Chamber of Commerce traitors who bring in foreigners for cheap labor (TFW) deserve to burn in the Ninth Circle of Hell.

      So if the commies somehow win, I hope they do ungodly things to the crony “muh capitalists”.

      1. I voted NDP because I hate the cowardly cuckservatives.

        Brilliant… You learn that logic at school or on Assbook or some other such idiocy?

        1. Still in denial about immigration and demographics turning Alberta into a left wing province?

          The cuckservatives are just as bad on immigration as the libshits.

          1. Not at all. However, if you think immigration will improve under Red Rachel, or if you think you’ll be able to pressure her to change things if she gets elected, have I got a chunk of swamp land for you. Cheap.

            Under DS, you may, possibly, have a fighting chance. I’ll take the slim chance over the no chance every time.

          2. It truly is INSANITY to believe that Albertans are so BRAINWASHED by the media that they vote for the dippers…….BUT I do agree this is the results of MASS IMMIGRATION…………..

        2. DB, we may disagree on a few things, but not on this. You have to be some kind of moron to claim to be conservative and willfully vote for the Dippers. Many people have said it, but the one I can remember most easily is Voltaire: “Perfect is the mortal enemy of the good.”

          It’s almost as insane as “I hate all of them, therefore I’m not voting.” If one doesn’t vote, one has no right to gripe about the outcome and whatever the vile results may be.

          1. I am not demanding perfection from conservatives, I just want them to actually represent me instead of treating voters like myself with contempt.

            For example, a poster here referred to principled conservatives as religious whack jobs.

            Danielle Smith actually had the gall to talk about “muh job creators” a la Mitt Romney.

            Burn in hell, conservatives.

      2. The NDP are the most crony capitalist party there is, even more than the PC boys club. Thanks for being a dumbass.

        Thank Alison Redford for the WEF approved Dominion voting tabulators.

      3. The seat count is looking somewhat close to how I thought it would turn out.

        NDP has made gains in Calgary. Thanks in large part to the immigrant and minority vote.

        The cuckservatives who insist on keeping their heads in the sand regarding demographics are in denial.

        Alberta will go the way of California and the American southwest due to demographics.

        Cuckservatives have lost every major culture war political battle. The only thing they they will do is vote for muh tax cuts. I expect them to completely surrender on grooming and trannies as they cater to woke capital.

        I predict Alberta will be a left wing province in 10 years based on the trends. There was no vote splitting on the right tonight and the NDP was actually competitive against an incumbent conservative party with a relatively good economy.

        1. The demographics that matter are the migration of the vast majority of voters to major city centers, where they drift left. Look at any elector distribution map.

          1. Calgary used to be solid conservative.

            Not anymore.

            Once Calgary becomes an NDP stronghold, they only need to pick off ridings outside of the big two to win.

        2. It is largely because of the constant drumbeat of the “mainstream” media. There will be no left wing in 10 years….it will destroy itself.

      4. You don’t have a clue. The N D P are communists and the terminally stupid vote for communists. There is no such thing as a lesser of two evils.

        1. you are 100% correct…NDP ARE COMMUNISTS……there is no doubt there at all……..

  2. What?
    CBC hasn’t claimed that Rachel Notley is Queen of Alberta?
    Seems that changing designation is getting quite easily now…just deem it and Shazam it’s done.
    Trudeau does crap like that all the time.

      1. Paul

        I don’t follow polls, but thanks for the link.

        I’ve been phoned by pollsters 16 times during this election. I hung up each time.

        Polls are supposed to be random. So how could I be phoned 16 times!

        1. And I haven’t been called once. My mistake was self identifying my vote intention as conservative 3 or 4 years ago… and not a single pollster has called me since. Once you identify as conservatives, I think you go on a blacklist. My advice…Keep hanging up!

          1. I agree and can echo your statement. Even the non political surveys are pushed, they’ll often exclude a conservative with the leading ‘suitably’ question, which slants the survey outcome away from any conservative views.

        2. @joe

          The pollsters were obnoxious this election, I have call display and refused to encourage them even a little bit by refusing to answer their calls! I wish these leeches would find a nice block of salt.

  3. I lost hope for Canada. If the NDP win It will the end for sure I just can’t see how we get out of this mess.

    1. Well…anyone who thinks that they’re going to get out of it by voting, is a damned fool.

      1. Yeseree. Democracy is for sissies. Better get our double-barrelled shotguns and start fightin’. And start throwing f-bombs under the safety of an avatar. This is your idea of a conservative movement. Yup.

  4. I’m afraid the deep-state has primed the population for a NDP win prior to them fixing the election, so that the public will more readily accept the result. They learned from their mistake in the US 2020 election, because Biden’s “victory” was so improbable. I’d go so far to say “statistically impossible!”
    I certainly hope I am wrong, but if I’m right, then there really is no hope for this country. The Marxists have full and total control over everything — especially control over who counts the votes. Previous experience has taught me that if the polls are declaring a race this tight, it’s to groom the public into accepting a result that isn’t quite exactly accurate.
    I can’t predict the results. My hope is that there is an underground well of support for the UPC that hasn’t declared their voting intentions. They’d be the wise ones.

    1. This is my belief as well. They’ll make it just close enough to be believable without risking their majority in a by-election.

    2. fc
      ” The Marxists have full and total ”
      Yer wankin about the current pope amIrite?

        1. Glad you pointed that out. I always figured they were the same guy, but I thought there couldn’t be two people this lame and stupid.
          Amirite?
          (Notice I can spell it.)

    3. This is what I think as well. A bit of cheating in key ridings and voila the nut head is in power. Just like the governor’s race in Arizona last fall. Lake has overwhelmingly proved that she was the winner last November but the courts will simply not rule justly despite the evidence.

  5. It’s difficult to be enthusiastic for a party that abandoned all of its conservative principles to slam us into the covid gulag and destroy our finances, personal and provincial, at the urging of screaming lefty karens and obviously deranged and stupid lefty Chief Medical Officers, Medical Industry and other known nutjobs.

    How could the NDP be worse than that?

    I suppose the NDP could be worse so I’ll probably vote UCP, but I may say fcuk it they’re all the same band of lying arseholes, just slightly different colours.

    1. Rachel was on record saying she’d send teams to unvaccinated peoples homes to “compel” them to “voluntarily” take the jab. How’s that sound?

    2. “I suppose the NDP could be worse…”

      I see you’ve never heard of British Columbia. There is no “suppose”.

      1. Second that. Whatever flaws you perceive of Smith or the UCP, they are but minor scratches, compared to the mortal disease that is the Commie NDP.
        Smith is leader BECAUSE of Kenney’s turncoat ways during Covid. She is the anti-Kenney, and has made plenty of statements that she fundamentally disagrees with his flippyfloppy ways.
        You don’t want the NDP under ANY circumstances. They are financial buffoons, and waste billions on every perceived victim group, with no measurable positive affect borne by the spending.
        They are idiots, but great critics of everything.
        Red Rachel has no positive record to run on. Think about it.

      2. “I see you’ve never heard of British Columbia. There is no “suppose”.”

        AT ALL.

    3. If the UCP was still led by Kenny I’d vote for the independence party. Once Smith started talking about the sovereignty act I set aside my previous opinion of her. We’ll see what she actually does.

  6. I cannot even imagine how Notley and the Dippers get elected again, after the experience of the previous time. Fool me once …

    1. Promise the electorate lots of free stuff and you have a good chance of being elected.

  7. 50-37 UCP. “cannot imagine how Notley and the Dippers get elected again”. heh. Optimist.

  8. 47 UCP
    40 NDP

    Smith shined during the wildfires & debate.
    Rural Alberta will save the day and another ten Calgary seats should be doable.

  9. UCP 47
    NDP 40

    Smith is deposed by her own party in 2025-2026 after saying one stupid thing too much.

    Four of the last five Conservative Premiers have won an election and then got kicked out by their own party before the next election (Klein, Stelmach, Redford, Kenney). Prentice lost an election so fast his party didn’t have time to kick him out. Hancock was a short-term caretaker so he doesn’t count.

  10. UCP 48
    NDP39
    I’m being optimistic but nothing surprises me these days. Smith is far too squishy for me but she’s likely as good as it gets in “electable” politics.

  11. I agree with Steve. If UCP does not get at least 50 seats then there is no hope for Canada. If Smith prevails then there is a slim, long-shot chance that Canada may survive.

  12. Don’t forget Albertans…a vote for booze hound Notley is truly a vote for Jagmeet Singh. As much as they like everyone to think they’re totally separate from their federal counterparts it’s a lie. The NDP Constitution makes them subservient to whoever is leading their party in Ottawa. That’s just a fact.
    A Notley win means she’ll be the branch manager.
    Get out and vote!!! Canada is watching.

  13. It is rather hard to listen to the news.
    You may have noticed that 90% of the yappers are women.
    The political scientologists have their agenda and tell the yappers that the socialists are good.
    The polls are telling people lies. The polls are fixed, the questions are crafted in such way as to get the proper answer. There is nothing random about that.
    Some of the socialist conservatives in the socialist paradise that is Edmonton, are of course supporting the socialists. One was a cabinet member in the so called conservative, socialist government of certain Redford.
    The massive propaganda campaign of the media cartel is for the socialists.
    So, then you have that.

  14. UCP will win easily,what bothers me me is the whining and bitching on here if you think the Reds are going to win you should have been out knocking on doors and helping out the UCP Those that did get out and help a huge Thank you

      1. Rex, I strongly agree with you

        Your comment at the top of the page predicts the NDP will win. The comment you agree with predicts an “easy” UCP win. Making allowances for your being a retired academician…but still, don’t you realize the rest of us can read?

        As for the commenter who gives himself the kingly (or canine) handle with whom you strongly agree, he’s always whining and bitching about whining and bitching. Nothing novel about that around here. Self-awareness has never been not our strong point.

    1. The concern is mainly coming from the fact that literally the entire public sector has been actively working for the NDP for quite some time. And good grief, the public sector has become a gigantic, monstrous hive.

        1. This is the fault of every “conservative” govt that has failed to shrink the public sector.

          If Smith wins tonight and wants to get elected again, she better focus on making Alberta an intolerable place for lefties.

  15. The UCP may win, but why, why, why, do the Conservative always make things so bloody difficult, Smith was clearly the wrong choice for the leader, Travis Toews would have been a shoe in.

  16. I think 338 Canada’s polling is close and I wouldn’t guess far from their projection.

    Was interviewed by Global Tv (about 30 seconds of our 10 minute convo was on air) after voting on Saturday and said that complacency is not good, that people should vote and not allow others to decide your future.

  17. As I read this I’m finishing breakfast in a food court on the Plus 15 in downtown Calgary, on my way to vote. I haven’t studied detailed polls for my riding, and I couldn’t trust them if I did, so I’m going by my gut instinct. Which tells me that the area is left enough to go NDP, but volatile enough to do a lot of other things, so the UCP could win it, and so I should help them try. If I thought they had a lock on it, or conversely no chance at all, I’d want to vote Solidarity to support Art Pawlowski, and if Solidarity were not on the ballot, I’d select a Grumpy Crackpot Liberation Front candidate and vote to show open contempt for the system.

    Such are my thoughts as I approach the poll. Presumably my vote will determine the entire election, so just watch the returns tonight and you’ll know what I decided.

    1. Turns out my vote did determine the whole thing. Geez, I thought I was kidding.

      Well, I don’t regret voting even though my vote was wasted. Joe Ceci held the riding and so I wasted my chance to vote Solidarity. Ah well. Danielle Smith may be many things, and the media will tell us all there is to know and a great deal more besides, but she’s not NDP and that’s good enough for me.

      Hey, could have been worse. We might have Premier Grumpy Crackpot today, so I’m glad I didn’t misuse my apparently awesome power.

  18. Gee where have we seen this before? Straight out of the Arizona playbook.

    1. Polls predict a “tight” race
    2. Record turnout early
    3. Media tells us about these terrific electronic tabulators!
    4. Wait, what? electronic tabulators?
    5 delay in results
    6 NDP win?
    7 Danielle Smith heads to Costa Rica!

    How is it electronic tabulators have been allowed in this election?

    Elections results could be delayed Monday | CityNews Edmonton

    There’s no question every Albertan’s vote counts. (– especially illegal ones)
    But how your vote will actually be counted, depends on whether you are voting in advanced polls, or on election day Monday.
    Alberta is on track for record breaking advanced voter turn out, with over half a million ballots cast to start Friday.
    For the first time in an Alberta election, voters will see electronic tabulators.
    “Super cool. You get to see your little vote go in, and then, yeah, its really cool,” said a voter CityNews spoke to. (ah yes cool as opposed to wrought with fraudulent capabilities)
    The machines are only being used in advanced polls, with ballots cast election day Monday being counted by hand.
    But the tabulators are already forcing fact-checkers to counter misinformation.
    What do people need to know about how the integrity of the vote is being maintained? Robyn Bell a spokesperson with Elections Alberta saying safeguards are in place.
    “That is something we take very seriously and so we have multiple safeguards in place to insure that. One of which is our logic and accuracy testing. That occurs before and after voting, in the presence of candidates and their scrutineers.”
    The machines have no connection to the internet, and results will only be printed off after polls close Monday.
    With all paper ballots preserved in case of a re-counts or issue with the machine.
    Bell says this makes it easier to allow people to vote at any advanced polling station. They tried this in 2019, but didn’t have tabulators at each station.
    “In 2019, the vote anywhere ballots were then transported to elections Alberta headquarters and counted here by tabulator, which resulted in a three day delay.”
    With some tight races projected, this could make a difference in what time on Monday night, we know results.

    https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2023/05/26/election-results-delay-possibility/

  19. Let’s be clear…..the majority of the “polls” have not been random, but rather self-selecting on-line polls….which have the value of a pitcher of warm spit.

  20. The UCP will probably win a reduced majority but Alberta’s shift to the left will continue.

    The leftward tilt in Calgary is a microcosm if what’s happening elsewhere, as immigration pushes Canada into a permanent state of socialism.

    Toronto is the future for everyone.

    New Canadians vote Liberal/NDP over the right by a ratio of at least 4 to 1. That’s just a fact here and I’m every western country.

    And it’s why mass migration is being pushed by every leftist government no matter the consequences for the economy, healthcare and finances.

    It’s all about votes and a permanent majority for statist government.

    1. Chip, True. Sad, but true…..sigh!

      Coupled with rigged voting machines, they’ll close the deal. If you can rig a US Presidential election, a small provincial election rigging, won’t even break a sweat. Ir’s not who votes, it’s who counts the votes, and lefties have zero ethics or integrity!

      I’m hoping for an UCP blowout, but my gut tells me we’re screwed…..permanently.

    2. And it’s why mass migration is being pushed by every leftist government no matter the consequences for the economy, healthcare and finances.

      You are correct, but that is not the whole truth, only partly the truth. Immigration went both up and down under the first Trudeau, who ran the most leftist government in Canadian history at the time. The immigration under Trudeau was also (mostly) Anglo- and Euro-centric

      Immigration really took off consistently under the Mulroney regime. Which wasn’t exactly leftist. Immigration never went down consistently under Harper, who supposedly wasn’t leftist. Since Mulroney, third world immigration continues preferentially under both Con and Lib regimes.

      Obviously transformational immigration is a policy goal (whether stated or unstated) of all governments, (in Canada and the rest of the collective west). Governments have exclusive authority over who can cross a border and settle permanently, so if it’s safe to assume government bureaucrats are making conscious decisions of who gets to come from where, and in what numbers.

      So the real question is, what is the real driver behind this, if partisan labels and political ideologies are not determinative?

    3. From your lips to God’s ears. To those who think it can’t happen to Alberta, consider that California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico were at one time reliably Republican.

      Cuckservatives who think they can preach muh free markets loud enough like TFW Kenney to woo the immigrant vote are in denial.

  21. I’m betting a landslide victory for UCP and their leader who is doing a great job.

  22. I think Smith will win but the ‘victory ‘ will be bittersweet.

    If she looses 10 seats her fate will be sealed. She’ll face a palace revolt and be exiled. The UCP is anything but united.

    Prepare for war Alberta conservatives, starting about 9:00 Mountain.

    1. I think Smith will win but the ‘victory ‘ will be bittersweet.

      I keep feeling this election has undertones of the election of 1969, Ernest Manning’s last Socred victory before the eastern stooge Lougheed and his PC onslaught.

      Alberta is not the province today that it was then, yes I fully understand that, but the sentiment hinted at in ’69, fully realized in Lougheed’s 1971 victory, was that the province needed a blast of fresh, progressive air that only a dynamic, urban, progressive like the Harvard MBA Lougheed could deliver. The cities wanted the rural Socreds OUT.

      The modern Alberta is similar in that so many people are now on the government payroll, whose pay cheques are financed by monetized debt. They too have an antipathy against the productive class that pays the bills, and they resolutely resist acquiring the realistic understanding of how a market economy sustains itself and raises living standards for all.

      Unless this social dysfunction is reversed, the next election could be a real, and a lasting, disaster.

  23. Well, I am not a political scientologist but will offer my SWAG. (Scientific Wild-Assed Guess)

    UCP 52
    NDP 34
    Other 1

    And I will also buy a lottery ticket since my chances of success are better with that.

  24. 56-21 for UCP, all converts are good. Ghost of Peter Lougheed gives two thumbs up. Fires miraculously stop, no point in starting them now.

    1. you mean like the dippers did around ft , mac. 7 years ago??? then published a redacted report so black it looked like the empty hair at a party??

    2. Oops, 56-21 does not add up to 87, was thinking fairly big win so would say 60-27 or so would represent my original call. I believe it’s probably closer than that, saw 56-31 on one late newscast, but no doubt the usual “last minute changes” are now underway. They will have it down to 50-37 by lunch time and then the all-important declarations by one or two hesitants that they must now sit as independents because, well, Danielle too close to normal for their liking.

      Anyway, Alberta and SK will be holding out longer than most, but unless there is widespread counter-revolutionary change on a large scale, I think all of our structures will collapse under the weight of the innumerable faulty assumptions of woke socialism. And all the brainwashed people who accepted it as the new normal won’t understand even slightly what happened, a few voices in the chaos will be leaving them with the last impressions that somehow “white supremacists” or “the colonial narrative” caused the collapse of their world, and perhaps they will believe it, even if they cannot find a white supremacist or a colonizer to punish. A few statues will have to do.

  25. I think it doesn’t matter who wins because nothing will change as long as politicians believe they are the solution to all problems.

    1. politicians believe they are the solution to all problems

      That’s only fair, to be honest. They and their bureaucratic string-pullers are responsible for creating most of them.

    2. Well it actually does matter because leftists absolutely believe they are the solution to all problems but the truth is leftists cause most of them. It’s about electing those who will do the LEAST harm.

    3. Government is the reason that we can’t have nice things.
      And the people who go into government believe that government is the solution, otherwise they wouldn’t go into government.

  26. Looking like a ucp landslide. Big surprise the Toronto scum sucking media got it wrong again.

  27. Marxageddon is upon us.

    Other People’s Money Party, aka the WEF-Ottawa fellatio team, da Dippers 51

    Clueless Stupid Party with da old school backroom boys and girls, aka “da ‘Cons”: 36

  28. St. Albert still voting NDP, hey St Albert ever open a women’s shelter in your community yet?

  29. I went to bed in November 2020 and Trump led the electoral college by close to 100 votes. When I woke up in the morning he was losing. There seems to be a vote counting clusterfcuk in Alberta tonight. Look out.

  30. Having worked in both provincial and federal election management agencies these systems are not ANYTHING like the US. The US system is easy to manipulate, it is based on individual trust. The mail in ballot system is corrupt and ballot harvesting should be illegal.

    I suspect the slow returns are the number of people who voted and the lack of experienced poll workers. In the last federal election we were training people up until the day before the election which was unheard of, and had to double up polls because of the lack of workers, so it took longer to count

    1. I support MJM here. The Canadian electoral system is better. But don’t be complacent. A paper record is most important.

  31. The pollsters got this one right. Looks like a narrow win for Smith. Both deputy Premiers are losing at the moment.

    Will Smith last until xmas is now the question. My guess is she wont be around long.

  32. The MSM finally bowed to reality and called it.
    UCP majority government. A bit smaller than last time, but both their vote share and the size of the majority are bigger than anyone other than Tory die-hards believed they would be.

    1. Hopefully during her concession speech. The question is, when is Notley going to concede? The Tories have effectively already won, so how long are the dippers going to drag this out?

    2. She’s a parasite. She has no other purpose or skill set.

      The trough is deep and full of money and shall not be ignored. Parasites need to continue to feed.

      She’s as phony as a 3 dollar bill. A fitting loser.

  33. The President of Delaware can certainly also direct the outright and intentional destruction of Canadian freedom and democracy from his basement. He’s doing a bang-up job on the US.

    Dr. Jill, with remarkable foresight, laid in a massive stockpile of adult Depends prior to the 2020 election.

  34. At 12:43 pm with 96% counted it looks like Kelly Gallagher got it bang on, 51-36 for the UCP. The NDP swept Edmonton, got a big chunk of Calgary (though Calgary-Acadia went down to the wire, UCP came from behind there), and got Banff and half of Lethbridge.

    Clearly Smith needs to take a scythe to the bureaucracy. Cutting the hundred thousand bureaucrats Notley hired would be a good start. When they move and take their socialist votes with them, the UCP will make inroads into Edmonton and all of Calgary.

    But that sovereignty act better happen fast.

    1. Tyler Shandro gets defeated by 7 votes. Couldn’t have happened to a better Vax pusher!!! AHAHAHAHAHA

  35. Elections show the real divide between rural and city, even in a so-called “conservative” province. City people want the government to give them more stuff and country people want the government off their neck.

    1. Yes, there is a real divide between country and city slickers. It’s not what most people generalize though. White college educated liberal women is what drives the city votes. Most of them all have jobs and a lot of those are for some level of government usually in some kind of social services. When you total city, province and federal, that’s a lot of jobs. That’s Edmonton and Calgary right there. Recent immigrants don’t all vote Liberal or NDP, a lot of them are more conservative socially than Canadian conservatives. When it comes to voting demographics, White liberal women are poison and the anecdote is marriage.

      1. I do not live in Alberta but in reading these comments, my observation is that there seems to be just as big a divide between folks calling themselves conservatives. Fight amongst yourselves. THAT is victory for the left.

        1. YES many idealists hang out here.
          They want a perfect textbook conservative and the full platform — no exceptions — of an imagined perfect conservative party; and if not it’s home with the marbles.

          The PP criticism sickens me.

      2. ” White liberal women are poison and the anecdote is marriage.”

        I suspect that most intelligent Canadian men would enthusiastically prefer war.

      3. That’s why Smith needs to fire a whole lot of bureaucrats. If they can’t find employment in Alberta, they’ll leave and take their socialist votes with them.

  36. Woke up this morning happy to have been proven wrong. I really did expect a slim NDP victory. Now, what WILL she do next?

    Smith will be a fine Premier. She’d better get tough as nails though, she’s going to need to be the second coming of Thatcher to get through the next few years.

    1. Being openly defiant of Blackie is a good start!

      I was shocked, pleasantly, at her frank language. Something we never see from mealy mouthed lefty cksucker BC premiers.

      Beer and popcorn, coming right up.

        1. They’re the only ones who slip under the “Redneck fascist racist everything-phobe” radar. Anything with a Mr. in front of their name will be weeded out.

  37. The NDP does not have the economic acumen to successfully operate a one table garage sale. Tax, spend and regulate is their m.o. Thankfully most Albertans realized this and voted accordingly. However, it is indeed a sad state of affairs when hordes of bureaucrats, civil servants and unionized healthcare workers are able to completely ignore the economy and vote NDP as witnessed in Edmonton. If the economy goes into the crapper as it would most certainly have done with Notley running the show, ordinary hard-working Albertans would have suffered mightily as corporations would downsize, cancel major projects or simply pack up and leave. Small businesses overwhelmed by increased taxes and endless regulations would be forced to cut employees’ hours or shut down for good. As for the aforementioned groups of NDP voters, the state of the economy means nothing. They will continue to get full pay and benefits and “job” security regardless of the economic circumstances.
    As for the election campaign, the media continues to show their unmistakeable bias as witnessed by the relentless portrayal of Premier Smith as an extremist for a phone conversation in which she promised nothing and didn’t interfere with the justice system. A great big nothing burger. Compare this to Trudeau’s SNC Lavalin adventure which was magnitudes worse and was a direct attempt to circumvent justice. The media’s response …. Move along. Nothing to see here.

    Finally, Rachel Notley is a loser and a trough-feeder of the highest order. If she possesses a shred of integrity, she will resign immediately.

    1. Like father, like daughter. It took a plane crash, (most tragic), to stop Grant from living off “moral victories”.

  38. Let’s have three cities in oil, gas and beef country, dead set opposed to oil, gas and beef, and let’s up the salaries of everyone in the public sector. That ought to be so easy to pull off, oh also if not enough people would vote for that, keep bringin’ em in from failed states until there are enough votes, or if that doesn’t work, get them fancy voting machines that vote without a person telling them, and don’t overlook the cemeteries, great source of votes for progressive politics. Those who have progressed from life to death are bound to be progressives.

  39. keep bringin’ em in from failed states

    “Canada”, (not a real country), is on the precipice of attaining this distinction.

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