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		<title>Strategic voting and democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alvin Finkel Opponents of strategic voting argue that it is an affront to democracy, and that sites like ChangeAlberta are all about denying choice to voters. That&#8217;s nonsense. Identification of individuals with a particular political party in Canada is actually quite rare. Only about one percent of voters in Canada have chosen to become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=129&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-election fever is upon us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Phil Elder Alberta&#8217;s political parties are tuning their engines and taking practice laps for the upcoming provincial election. With the latest poll showing the PCs at 53%, Wildrose at 16%, the NDP at 13%, Liberals at 11% and the Alberta Party at 2% (with the new Evergreen Party not included), it seems all over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=123&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renewing Canadian Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Phil Elder One critique of the Occupy movement claims it is unnecessary because Democracy is very alive and very well in this country &#8230; (Letter to the Globe and Mail, November 19). I only wish it were true. In fact, Canadian democracy has big problems. Politics is in disrepute and citizen engagement in politics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=94&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for Premier Redford</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Phil Elder Last night I had the strangest dream that Premier Alison Redford hired me as a policy advisor. Heres what I told her: 1. Alberta needs its politicians to start an adult conversation about the budget. We also need our politicians to tell us what their parties promises will cost and how they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=92&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Types of cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neither a Merger Nor a War? by ALVIN FINKEL The media, as well as hyper-partisans in both the NDP and Liberal parties, lazily treat every suggestion regarding cooperation among political parties of the left and centre as a proposal for a merger. But federal NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen is burning a hole in that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=87&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Premier Redford and the DRP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drpalberta</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Phil Elder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alberta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alison Redford]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect most members of the Alberta Democratic Renewal Project were happy to see Alison Redford, rather than one of the party establishment, win the Progressive Conservatives’ leadership.  She was the pick of the bunch &#8211; smart, articulate, bold and female to boot.  All of these characteristics mark a refreshing change. At the same time, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=78&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alberta&#8217;s Changing Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following column appeared in the www.connect2Edmonton.com website: http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/guest-columnist/142 Saturday October 16, 2010 There is an increasing sense that the 40 year-old Progressive Conservative government of Alberta is on its last legs. Rather than wondering whether a change in its leadership can save the disintegrating regime, many Albertans are now asking who will succeed it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=74&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Brian: Show yourself to be a man of the moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following letter was submitted by a former NDP candidate in Livingston-Macleod to the Edmonton Journal as an op-ed on July 14, 2010: During his inaugural speech, President Barack Obama observed that it was now time to put aside childish things. Such was the dire nature of the times that adherence to outworn excesses and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=71&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DRP NEWS RELEASE: Alberta Group Supports Swann’s Call for Cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was released today to media and political leaders: Pointing to opinion polls* that show combined support for the Alberta Liberals and New Democrats, plus the former Greens, slightly exceeds that of either the Conservatives or  the Wildrose, Phil Elder, Calgary co-chair of the Alberta Democratic Renewal Project says “Progressives have a fighting chance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=68&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Brian Mason: Severing my ties with the Alberta NDP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alvin Finkel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Brian, After 40 years of membership in the NDP in several provinces, I am severing my ties with the Alberta party and considering severing ties with the federal party as well. Your mean-spirited dismissal of Dr. David Swann&#8217;s gesture to unite progressive forces in this arch-conservative province depresses me immensely and leaves me little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drpalberta.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10944930&amp;post=64&amp;subd=drpalberta&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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