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QUIZ – BC Election 2017: Who Should You Vote For ?

It's election time in British Columbia. After failing miserably in the last election, despite favourable polling, the BC NDP is ready to fight the governing Liberals. There's several issues on the table: Pipeli...

Conservatives Cause More Trouble: Anti-Harper Vandalism Creates Unsafe Conditions

But can anything really stop Harper? Twitter, @DailyGleaner Just when you thought Harper couldn’t do (much) more damage, he’s at it again. Or at least he’s the inspiration behind it. Prince Ruper...

Western Canada’s Systematic Discrimination Against Mermaids

Every eight year old girl has fantasized about living as a mermaid in her own underwater kingdom. Every fifteen year old boy would be lying if he said he didn’t have Ariel fantasies of his own. I myself find no...

So Much For Progressive: Interim Alberta PC Leader Ric McIver

Mr. Potato Head's Homophobic Uncle Named Interim Leader PC Alberta Alberta is widely known as Canada’s most resource-rich province and its most prevalent resource is political comedy. Like the tar...

Calgarians Trying to Weed Out Deborah Drever

Newly elected 26-year-old Alberta MLA Deborah Drever is facing calls for her removal after scandalous photos circulated the internet. To the disappointment of perverts everywhere, these photos are not explicit ...

5 New Jobs for Jim Prentice

If you think anything is certain in politics, consider Jim Prentice. Prentice entered last week's election as Alberta's Premier and left as, well, a big loser. He and his PC buddies thought they had it won righ...

NDP Wins Majority in Alberta, Apocalypse to Follow

As of this writing, Rachel Notley’s New Democrats have claimed 54 seats in the Alberta legislature, well past the threshold of 44 that allows them to call a majority government. With the Wildrose and Progressiv...

Alberta 2015 – LIVE Coverage

Election day in Alberta is finally here. It's going to be a strange and confusing phenomenon to be sure. Will hell actually freeze over and Albertans elect a NDP government? Are the polls making a huge mistake ...

Alberta Campaign Takes Surprising, Phallic Turn

Last week, we wrote about the Alberta NDP, a party that has surged in the polls despite having offered Alberta nothing more than a leader, a few photos, and a promise to be better than everyone else. The platfo...

Platformless NDP Surges in Alberta

Despite its youth, the Alberta election campaign is already one of the most interesting this country has ever seen. Mere days after PC Premier Jim Prentice called an election for early May, his party has tanked...