More than 70% of eligible voters didn't even bother

to vote in Calgary's by-election November 26; and, only 11% of eligible voters voted for the winning party!

Taliban shoots 14 year old for advocating .....

..... education for girls. So don't ask why democratic politics are important, just get invovled, even if it's only voting!

In 10 years it will be the Canadian Wheat Board by another name

Ending the Canadian Wheat Board's international sales' monopoly will, because it will increase competition among Canadian sellers, reduce the netback to western Canadian farmers. The Conservative Goverment's legislation to end the Board is simply misplaced ideology. Ending the sales' monopoly is good conservative philosophy but poor modern-world business.

In 10 years we will have the CWB by another name, and a new mess to clean up.

Alberta Proud

Oil sand plant

I champion the responsible development of the oil sands.

I'm proud of Albertans. The most highly educated, skilled people anywhere. World leaders in education, health care, economic development.

There are oil sands all over the world, but we developed the expertise to extract the oil and get it where it is needed. And we'll use that same expertise to develop technology to minimize the environmental impact!

Robbing the piggy bank, Premier ...

... Redford, of $3,732,000,000 or $1,395 per tax-paying Albertan, to say, for election purposes, that the budget is balanced, is, to say the least, misleading.

Apartheid - Canadian style

Mike Mountain Horse

It's hard not to make this comparison when considering "Indian reservations". The Indian Act ties Indians to land, without the benefit others in our Canadian society enjoy from private ownership. It's time to stop treating Indians like children. Eliminate the Indian Act, and give Indians responsibility for their own success or failure.

You're either one or the other...

...current Seniors or future Seniors. Either way, Prime Minister Harper's change to pension ages will affect you. I think mandatory retirement age should be changed to discretionary retirement age, at the option of the individual.

The big issue right now is the long term care of our mature adults who need more care than can be given at home but are not acute enoough for hospitalization.

Alberta Health Services is running out of long term beds so those needing long term placement may be kept in our transition beds in hospital just waiting for placement. This puts a lot of stress on the patients not knowing where they will end up, stress on the families being pressured by the hospital system to take them out & take them home (few families know how to take care of their elderly parents.

Then, of course there is the Government or hospital side of things saying we are running out of beds for people that need acute care but no beds because the frail, elderly are occupying them.... and then, there is the cost associated with keeping people in hospitals. Our elderly can be laying in their beds for months on end just waiting for their permanent placement