The Poll that Matters is in 2019

Taken individually today’s Mainstreet poll is unremarkable. The Conservatives are leading the NDP by 20 points. What is amazing is how flat the polls have been for 3 full years now. Six months after the last election, the air went out the tires of the NDP and...

The Basics of UCP Nominations

I am running to for the UCP Nomination in Sherwood Park. A nomination is the process that a political party uses to choose a candidate. If I win the nomination I will be the UCP candidate for the constituency of Sherwood Park in the 2019 Alberta provincial election....

The NDP and Equivalencies

A few days ago I tweeted about speed limits on the Sherwood Park freeway. Part of the freeway is legally provincial highway 100, but there are no signs indicating this. On my website and social media I referred to the unsigned highway as “secret”. The NDP...

Nanny State Speed Limits on a Secret Highway

Have you noticed that the speed limits on the Sherwood Park Freeway west of the Henday are ridiculously low? Going eastbound into the Park the speed limit is 80 kph. Westbound the limit is 70 and 80 kph until you get into Edmonton when the speed limit goes to 100 kph...

Time to Work Together

A friend of mine who is now an MP used to have distinct teams of door knockers when he ran for a seat in Ottawa. Wildrose supporters one day.  PC supporters the next. In 2015 when I ran federally our campaign had no such separation. I remember one evening I was out...