Years ago, while volunteering for the Alberta Liberals, I began to assemble a "sorry I missed you" card for door knocking in Ca...

As a progressive I'm naturally pretty thrilled by Albertans' decision to elect an NDP government in Alberta last night. I believe n...

Well, here we are - if the polls are correct and people actually show up to vote and they vote the way they told the pollsters they would...

As I expected, tonight's debate wasn't particularly dramatic. No one made any lethal gaffes, no one landed any devastating blows. I...

Albertans go back to the polls on May 5. The upheaval in Alberta politics over the last couple of years makes predicting the outcome a mug...

While I greatly enjoyed my time at the Official Opposition, I always had mixed emotions about one annual project: the video required for th...

A couple of years ago I wrote about a podium sign I'd designed for the Official Opposition. That sign featured then-leader David Swan...

Well, yesterday's thoughts on strategic voting created the heaviest traffic flow this blog has ever seen, but it seems few of you agree...

I've been a strategic voter since the federal election in 1993, voting Liberal or NDP depending upon who had the best chance of defeatin...

The sincerest and kindest-hearted MLA in the Alberta Legislature describes the problems facing public health care and the Official Opposit...

Every year, the Alberta Legislature press gallery and each caucus creates an amusing, self-depcrecating video for the press gallery Christm...

Today the Official Opposition bids farewell to John Santos, a political firebrand who served the Alberta Liberal Caucus in two roles: first ...

Last night I attended the Alberta Liberal Party's special event at the University of Alberta to announce their next leader. With slightl...

Jack Layton died this morning , and like countless other Canadians from across the political spectrum, I'm deeply saddened. Jack was a c...

Here are a few images from today's Capital Ex parade. Official Opposition Leader Dr. David Swann