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This Week's INSIGHT into Government

Week ending 27 Jan 2012 Vol 26, No 20

  • The parties rev up their election manoeuvring; the PCs have the advantage of making gov't announcements
  • Some of the groups that ran the No Plan campaign in the 2008 election are back with Better Way Alberta (Better Way Alberta campaign)
  • Work starts on a new social policy framework (Draft discussion guide for new social policy framework, PDF, 124 KB, History of poverty reduction policies in Alberta, PDF, 396 KB)
  • An eminence grise surfaces in work on energy and environment issues
  • Plus …
    • Why the superficially short distance from a big election win to a landslide is much bigger than it looks
    • Electing Senate nominees will cost an estimated $3.1 million, nearly twice the cost of the 2004 elections
    • The child and youth advocate asks for a large budget increase and is told he may not be asking for enough
    • Hidden stories in the PC nomination contests; and
    • A new poll puts the Conservatives into a commanding lead (Leger Marketing poll published Jan. 20 on Alberta voting preferences, PDF, 680 KB)

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