Posts Tagged ‘ United Conservative Party of Alberta ’

Is Alberta stuck with a “quasi-party system” that only (united) conservatives can finally master?

May 31st, 2023 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 30, 31, 2023. If the question was will the May 29 election in the fourth-largest, oil-and-gas-rich Canadian province of Alberta be more like the May 14 election in Thailand (vaguely progressive, maybe), or the May 14 and 28 elections in Turkey (quite conservative), the clear answer is the still intriguing […]



Elections, elections, elections … what’s happening to democracy in Turkey, Thailand, and Alberta today?

May 18th, 2023 | By | Category: Countries of the World

SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, GRAND BEND, ON. 18 MAY 2023. My only first-hand memories of Turkey go back almost 16 years, to the early fall of 2007. It was just after the big second victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the July 22 election that year. But it was […]