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Comment on Has Danielle Smith just relegated the UCP to the Boneyard of Broken Alberta Political Brands? by David Climenhaga

David Climenhaga — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:48:33 +0000

In reply to Old Albertan. About the same distance, let's say, give or take 500 k, but not necessarily in a straight line. DJC

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by David Climenhaga

David Climenhaga — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:47:43 +0000

In reply to Murphy. Murphy: You should get together with B Burnsides and chat! DJC

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by David Climenhaga

David Climenhaga — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:47:01 +0000

In reply to B Bursidies. B: You should get together with Murphy and chat! DJC

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by David Climenhaga

David Climenhaga — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:45:49 +0000

In reply to Jim. Jim: Yes, it should ... and now is. Thanks. DJC

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by Alfredo Louro

Alfredo Louro — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:42:49 +0000

Ironically the Alberta NDP is, I think, the victim of its own success. Thanks to Rachel Notley and her team it was seen by others as a possible path to power where before they had none.

In her farewell speech Rachel said that her legacy would be that Alberta is now a two-party state. But there’s a vast difference between being a government in waiting, as the NDP should be, and the eternal opposition, a foil for the natural governing party, as conservatives like to see themselves.

I’d like to see the NDP stop waiting for Danielle Smith to do something outrageous that will cause voters to reject her with disgust. It doesn’t work. Smith has normalized outrageous. Like the whole referendum thing. The outcome could not be any clearer, the NDP was on the right side of the question and yet at the end of the day they are not the triumphant heroes. I’d like the NDP to be the heroes of health care, fighting the UCP in the courts and in the streets. I’d like to see the NDP embracing hospitals. Forget Question Period.

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by Sub-Boreal

Sub-Boreal — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:41:41 +0000

It was refreshing to get Brian Mason’s wise perspective on the BC election. Like for him, my support for the NDP has to be earned. As the provincial sections are now mostly a de facto farm team for the federal Liberals, I’m happy to divert my financial support to the federal party and the BC Greens, whose leader actually sounds like a New Democrat!

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by B Bursidies

B Bursidies — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:19:32 +0000

Just think. Canada has abandoned reasonable trade talks with the U.S. and an upwardly growing economy simply to join the Islam-ridden, downward spiraling, financially strapped EU. Little man’s complex, b.s. artist and economics-incompetent Mark Carney is leading the country into a major depression from which it will NEVER recover. That’s what we get for putting an idiot in charge, going “elbows up” and thumbing our noses at the U.S.

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by Murphy

Murphy — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:23:58 +0000

I don’t under why we all can’t just get along the way we did before all this confrontational business. I miss the days, before all this divisiveness, when a great man like Ralph Klein could just demolish aspects of the Welfare State, or Brian “Don’t Mind if I Do” Mulroney could hand the country to international finance in the name of free trade, and people happily bent over, grabbed their ankles, took a deep breath and said, “I love you too’. Those were heady days, vastly better than the era in which working class people actually clashed with the rentier class that owns them. First Nations folks are lucky to have to these treaties that enshrine the rights of the Bank of Montreal to drive them onto tiny, remote pockets of land while stealing the rest for capitalism. Prog World is just like Care-a-lot, land of the Care Bears. I hope I run into Tyler Shandro or Jeremy Nixon on the street so that we can have big hugs!

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by Christina

Christina — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:32:40 +0000

Hello DJC and fellow commenters,
I would say that Duane Bratt in this instance is the master of understatement. And, is she kidding, Premier Smith caring about question period? She, like so many Con politicians, seems to think that First Nations don’t matter at all. Although, come to think of it, P M Carney doesn’t seem to think they do either.
Will newly minted Premier Lorne Doerkson care about species at risk or the risks of indiscriminate logging, including logging of actual old growth, which was permitted by former Premier David Eby’s government, or any other environmental issue? All designed to make money, uncaring of the actual results. I would guess that Premier Doerkson doesn’t care either.
At least Lula da Silva who was re-elected president in Brazil, will, hopefully, be able to prevent some of the worst environmental excesses that Bolsonaro jr, presidential hopeful now defeated, would have perpetrated on the Amazon and its peoples.

Comment on Surely Danielle Smith has seen enough to understand why early elections are a really bad idea! by Roger

Roger — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:20:27 +0000

One of the great mysteries of politics. Why do people, in large numbers, vote against their best interests? BC voters will be paying a high price for their choice last week.