[ShepherdsDog]

[herbie]

Unable to locate picture of F350 duallies pulling 28ft travel trailers to make refugee poster...

[DrCaleb]

Why would Albertans fearing an NDP government go to Saskatchewan that also has an NDP government?

[andyt]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

[huh] Why would Albertans fearing an NDP government go to Saskatchewan that also has an NDP government?

[Thanos]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

[huh] Why would Albertans fearing an NDP government go to Saskatchewan that also has an NDP government?

Saskatchewan Party runs the place. Kind of a mellow conservative thing they've got going on there where they don't go overboard with the right-wing stuff in order to keep the NDP from making a comeback.

[andyt]

They sound exactly like the Liberals in BC. Same deal, an anything but the NDP coalition. In BC they've certainly made some dumbass doctrinaire rightwing moves.

[ShepherdsDog]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

[huh] Why would Albertans fearing an NDP government go to Saskatchewan that also has an NDP government?

The NDP hasn't been in power in Saskatchewan since 07.....does the name Brad Wall ring a bell....the guy who's head of the Saskatchewan Party? They were an ABD movement, created by merging Sask PCs(not in jail) and Sask Liberals

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

[huh] Why would Albertans fearing an NDP government go to Saskatchewan that also has an NDP government?

Saskatchewan Party runs the place. Kind of a mellow conservative thing they've got going on there where they don't go overboard with the right-wing stuff in order to keep the NDP from making a comeback.

Ah, ok. I always thought there were just the progressives skimmed from the top of the NDP soup.

[smorgdonkey]

Sask has a very admirable provincial government. They still have no provincial 'politician's pension'?

In Nova Scotia, citizens put in $22 for every $1 that the politicians contribute. Absolutely criminal.

[raydan]

I don't know about you guys, but I find this is freaking hilarious.

[Jabberwalker]

Yeah. Cripes, after voting in a bunch of Quebec elections, this looks positively dull.

[andyt]

Socialists elected in Canada's oil patch? Alberta election gets noticed in U.S.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/socialists-el ... 14129.html


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$1:

t's even helpful, he said, for pro-pipeline Canadian politicians to stop banging the drum on Keystone. The head of a Canada think-tank in Washington agreed.
David Biette, head of the Wilson Center's Canada Institute, also predicted the election fallout will wind up being less dramatic than some of the headlines.
"When when someone sees, 'Socialists take over in Alberta,' the instant reaction is going to be: 'Oh, they're going to destroy the energy industry,' from pro-energy, perhaps more conservative people," he said. "And it's, 'They're going to stop the tar sands,' from the pro-environmentalist groups.
"And it's neither."

[Jabberwalker]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Indeed it is the End Times.

[Freakinoldguy]

For all those people who are cheering madly about this stunning upset and thinking it's gonna change the way Alberta does business this may just change your minds.

$1:

EDMONTON—Incoming Alberta premier Rachel Notley says her first job will be to reach out to reassure energy industry leaders that her NDP government doesn’t plan to make decisions without them.


“They can count on us to work collaboratively with them,” Notley said Wednesday after her party won a majority by pushing out the Progressive Conservatives.


“I’m hopeful that over the next two weeks they will come to realize that things are going to be just A-OK over here in Alberta.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015 ... mises.html

But if you listen to the video clip it's interesting to note she's getting advice from Roy Romanow, one of the most sensible NDP'er in the country. So maybe there's hope for Alberta after all.

[Alta_redneck]

3 years 363 days and their asses are out of here.