Thanks to everyone who entered my contest for questions to ask the Environment Minister! I recieved some great questions and I’ve tried to incorporate them into my question period time. There are only three weeks left in the sitting, so I’ll continue to try and bring up these issues. Here are some of the best [...]

This past Sunday I attended a small but inspiring rally at the Olympic Plaza in Calgary.  It was a send off for a courageous group of 20 students from Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton walking by foot to Edmonton in an 8 day trek to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur.  The event in Calgary [...]

Despite the fact that 90% of the participants in the government sponsored Climate Change Consultations have asked for real reductions in CO2 emissions, Minister Renner still isn’t convinced on the issue.  90% sounds like a pretty good concensus to me.
As I’ve said just recently on the blog, the Alberta Liberal Caucus Plan is to cap emissions by 2012.  We would ratchet [...]

I recently wrote an op-ed for the Calgary Herald on the issue of Climate Change.  It appeared last Friday May 11th and outlined some elements of what the Alberta Liberal Caucus Climate Change Plan will look like.
Please consider leaving a comment or two letting me know your thoughts on some of our proposals.  Article: Climate Change [...]

Here are some clippings from today’s Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun on the current by-election in Calgary Elbow – Ralph Klein’s old riding.  Craig Cheffins is the Alberta Liberal candidate.
Check out the press clippings here: Elbow Byelection.

Something happened in the Legislature yesterday that has not been seen for many years- citizens took a Minister’s office by storm and demanded action to protect their right to affordable housing. Thirty people, including a Rwandan woman and her baby, seniors, and people with disabilities forced the Minister of Housing, Ray Danyluk, to sit and [...]

Just thought people might be interested in this article on water in Alberta called “Tapped Out” which was written by Niall McKenna for the AMA magazine Westworld. It does a great job of summing up the water situation in Alberta, from Dr. Schindler’s dire predictions to the failures of the Water for Life strategy. [...]

After a year of fighting hard to have the dangers of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) mining identified and dealt with, I find that not much progress has been made. This government continues to cover up the knowledge people’s drinking water has been contaminated by oil and gas activity in Alberta. It has been covered up [...]

I like what David has said here and would like to hear back from you about what you think.
Rent controls good first step
DAVID WILSON FOR THE CALGARY HERALD
Little light is shining through the democratic darkness in this province. Alberta is experiencing an affordable housing crisis, yet no substantive measures are being implemented.
The Affordable Housing Task [...]