I’ve been speaking to the media about Bill 50 over the last few days. Here is what was said: The Calgary Herald The Calgary Sun CBC News As an Albertan, what are you most concerned about on this issue? David

Here are a few recent articles dealing with important issues from my collegues at the Alberta Liberal Caucus.   First step to a balanced budget: stop the severance bonus round  from Hugh MacDonald, Official Opposition Finance critic.   Thinking outside the borders for fiscal discipline from Bridget Pastoor, Official Opposition critic for International and Intergovernmental Relations. [...]

I’m travelling to Ft. Chipewyan this weekend for a conference that is bring together scientists, acitvists, politicians and the public on the issue of oilsands development and the Athabasca River.  George Poitras has done a great job of organizing the event that will include other dignitaries such as Dr. David Schindler and Dr. John O’Connor. [...]

Journalist Archie McLean of the Edmonton Journal has started a “Leg out Loud” series every week.  I encourage you to check out the site and keep up-to-date with some in-depth interviews on current affairs in the province. http://feeds.feedburner.com/Lejoutloud This week Archie interviewed me in my Leg office.  We discussed a wide arrange of issues from renewing [...]

Seems as though the government has a hard time covering it’s tracks these days.  This news seems pretty important to me, why is it just appearing on the 7th page?  New documents show royalties loss was billions; Alberta Energy mistakenly released secret information The Calgary Herald Sat 05 Jan 2008 Page: A7 Section: News Byline: Darcy [...]

Read: Balzac Track Gets Its Water This may seem like an odd question but now that the Western Irrigation District has approved the sale of 6700 cubic metres of water a day to the Balzac MegaMall project we’re faced with a dilemma.  Alberta’s water has been divided on a ‘first in time, first in right’ basis [...]

In the year before an election, golf courses in Tory ridings get almost $7 million in grants.  This is unbelievable, actually no, this is what we’ve come to expect from the governing party.  Not only do they do it, they defend it by saying that most golf courses are in rural areas that elect only [...]