NDP leader Brian Mason’s first words on reaching the podium? “The phone booth just doubled!”
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A splash in Ontario makes waves in Alberta
The Ontario Superior Court’s Charter finding against prostitution-related provisions of the Criminal Code has unexpectedly cast light on the new Alberta politics. The hard-charging Wildrose Alliance talks a good game when it comes to defending provincial rights; the logical corollary, one might suppose, would be for it to observe a dignified silence about matters reserved to the federal government. This is never how things work, of course, and the Alliance couldn’t move fast enough to issue a joint statement in the names of its two turncoat MLAs, Heather Forsyth and Rob Anderson.
The west is in. Now what?
Can the West shape the national agenda? A Maclean’s debate.
Ich kann nicht Anderson
I approve unreservedly of Colleague Kohler’s reaction to today’s defections in the Alberta assembly. As a former cabinet minister Forsyth may get the lion’s share of the attention in tomorrow’s papers, but Anderson is the more intriguing figure. His indignant, score-settling address to the media about his reasons for crossing the floor would guarantee that, even if there were no pre-existing reason to think so.
“Dysfunction” drives two across the floor
Alberta’s Wildrose Alliance seems farther ahead than ever with the defection of two Tory MLAs
The ‘Fiscal Four’ fight the deficit
Are the four working with Ed Stelmach, or against him?